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• MarketScout Barometer Holds Steady At Minus-5%

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 11, 2011

  The soft market continues unabated, but at least it is showing some indication of stabilizing itself as a monthly composite barometer of rates held steady for a fourth month at minus-5 percent.

• MarketScout Barometer Holds Steady At Minus-5%

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 7, 2011

  MarketScout's barometer of U.S. property and casualty market shows minus-5 percent composite rate for the fourth straight month, with general liability still the most aggressively priced coverage.

• Oil Spill-Driven ILW Price Hikes Could Spread To Re Market, Exec Warns

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 5, 2010

  Although reinsurers cut prices for June 1 renewals, one Bermuda-based executive speculated that price hikes in the insurance loss warranty market--fueled by the Deepwater Horizon disaster--could eventually spread to the reinsurance market.

• Are Wholesaler Commissions At Risk In Ongoing Soft Market?

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 28, 2010

  Retail brokers may start seeking larger cuts of the commissions paid out on surplus lines transactions as the soft market continues, a specialty lines insurance executive suggested recently.