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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 29, 2012
It’s official. 2011 was one of the best claims years for the aviation-insurance market, and that translates into soft-market conditions continuing into 2012, according to a report released by Aon Risk Solutions.
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By Mark E. Ruquet |
February 9, 2012
Over $3 billion in losses for the mining-insurance industry has resulted in a decrease of 30 percent of insurance capacity in the line, says a report from Willis Group Holdings.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 6, 2012
Over $3 billion in losses for the mining-insurance industry has resulted in the loss of 30 percent of insurance capacity, says a report from Willis Group Holdings plc.
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By Dave Lenckus |
February 1, 2012
Although insurance capacity for catastrophic perils is still available and affordable, some experts say last year’s huge losses already are driving up insurance costs and could shrink capacity, federal financial assistance or both.
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By John Beauchamp |
July 29, 2011
EnvISIon, a new rating system to assess the sustainability of infrastructure projects, is one initiative helping government and corporate risk managers benchmark sustainability performance and provide a framework for measuring risk—as environmental risk challenges threaten to surpass insurance capacity.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 3, 2011
From a seller’s perspective, the transportation insurance market is “not getting worse,” according to a just-published survey from NIP Group, which even reveals more rate hikes than declines for certain select segments like charter buses and courier services.
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By Susanne Sclafane and Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 3, 2011
While the insurance market for transportation risks is still soft, those in the industry are saying it has begun to stabilize and the tide of new entrants flooding into the market is beginning to slow, according to NIP Group’s first-quarter Transportation Insurance Pricing Survey.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 7, 2011
An insurance consortium for energy coverage introduced in light of the Deepwater Horizon event may not be a large source of coverage for major oil companies, which are likely to continue self insuring and purchasing only modest amounts of coverage, according to a Moody’s analyst.
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By Staff Writer |
March 22, 2011
The disaster following the tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan should not create a reduction in insurance capacity for such plants, but it is too early to know if the incident will result in increased pricing, according to JLT Global Nuclear Practice Group.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 31, 2011
Like the rest of the world, the insurance community is watching events unfold in Egypt and trying to anticipate the implications of this popular uprising.
