Reinsurance

Chris Fischer Hirs, the head of Allianz SEs specialty insurance business, said he welcomes the growing participation of Wall Street in the insurance industry as an opportunity, not a threat.

The NCCI breakout sessions have information for everyone who has a role the workers compensation system.

The trends impacting insurance and reinsurance companies are typically aligned, but sometimes the trends push and pull in an opposing (but complementary) way.

PartnerRe Ltd., seeking to fend off a hostile $6.8 billion cash bid from Exor SpA, is weighing whether it can arrange new terms with rival reinsurer Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. to preserve their planned merger.

PartnerRe Ltd.s former Chief Executive Officer Patrick Thiele said the reinsurers shareholders should vote against a planned merger with Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. and called the cash offer from Italys Exor SpA a better option.

Overall, the outlook for P&C insurers is positive, according to attendees at S&P's 2015 Insurance Conference, but is the reward worth the risk?