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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com, Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 23, 2011
Property and casualty excess capital remains robust, although it has declined since July 2010, an analysis shows, while a separate analysis strictly on reinsurers shows a 6 percent decline in capital for the 2011 first quarter as companies contend with, among other issues, insured catastrophe losses.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 22, 2011
The property and casualty industry still has “robust” excess capital, but not as much as July 2010, according an analysis by Morgan Stanley.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 22, 2011
It may have seemed like horrible timing when Susan Rivera was starting up a program business-focused MGA in late 2009, but there were several advantages to launching in the wake of a global financial crisis and about six years into a soft property and casualty insurance market, she says.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 18, 2011
Several Bermuda companies have reported loss estimates from first-quarter catastrophes, but all of the companies excluded the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan, stating that it is too early to give an estimate.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 15, 2011
A change to a catastrophe model can influence the level of reinsurance purchased by companies and impinge on the rating process, but the extent to which the latest revision announced by one modeler affects either is not specifically clear.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 11, 2011
The industry should “stay tuned” as the revised catastrophe model from Risk Management Solutions rolls out, the CEO of RenaissanceRe told NU, describing the model changes and potential market impacts as meaningful.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 9, 2011
Based on property and casualty companies’ pre-announcements and other data, losses from the Feb. 22 New Zealand earthquake damages could be as much as three-times worse than the September quake in the same region, Morgan Stanley said.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 8, 2011
The industry should “stay tuned” as the revised catastrophe model from Risk Management Solutions rolls out, the chief executive officer of RenaissanceRe told NU Online News Service, describing the model changes and potential market impacts as meaningful.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 22, 2010
While multinational insurers struggle to establish global uniformity in regulation, disparities in systems of taxation around the world remains an unproductive factor in determining where carriers do business, industry leaders say.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 15, 2010
Insurance industry leaders weighed in on issues such as taxes, the global insurance market, the role of government and other issues during a webcast from the World Insurance Forum in Bermuda.
