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Arch ratings boosted

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has upgraded the insurer financial strength ratings on Arch Capital Group's insurance and reinsurance operating companies to A+ from A…Read more

Scor profits down 15% on H1 cats

Scor's profits slipped by 15 percent to EUR156mn in the first six months of 2010 as natural catastrophe losses took their toll…Read more

Aspen beats forecasts on Q2 operating profits

Aspen Insurance Holdings beat analysts' consensus forecasts by 23 cents a share as it reported Q2 operating earnings of $104.9mn, or $1.23 a share, marginally down on the $103.8mn or $1.14 a share it earned in the prior-year period…Read more

Everest shares climb despite hefty Chile increase

Everest Re has hiked its Chile loss estimate by almost forty percent from $290mn to $400mn as the reinsurer has no retro cover to fall back on…Read more

Catlin leads on Willis-placed Pakistani jet crash

Catlin Group is the lead on the AirBlue passenger plane that crashed in heavy monsoon rain in Islamabad today (28 July), The Insurance Insider understands…Read more

Lancashire gets positive outlook

Bermuda-based Lancashire Insurance Company has become the first of the so-called "class of 2005" start-ups to be granted a positive outlook rating by AM Best…Read more

Brit Insurance concedes to Apollo’s increased £880mn offer

Willis books consecutive quarters of organic growth, despite soft market

RenRe casts off ChannelRe; profits dip with Endurance

New York AG files to appeal quashing of bid-rigging convictions

Allianz lead hull insurer in Lufthansa crash

Montpelier and Arch beat earnings forecasts

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Deepwater litigation has only just begun

"There isn't enough money in the world to clean up the Gulf of Mexico," said influential oil and gas analyst Matthew Simmons in June - which now looks to have more foresight and less hyperbole than originally intended… Read more

US Q2 surveys see commercial pricing hit by excess capacity

The soft market conditions for US commercial insurance show no sign of abating as excess capacity continued to push down rates in Q2, according to a raft of research and comment last week… Read more

Contingent controversy reignites

Aon's announcement last week that it would again take contingent commissions has led to predictable howls of protest, almost six years after the former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer's bruising campaign… Read more

London market urged to scrutinise professional fees

Senior London market claims handlers have called for a far clearer understanding of what is spent on professional services such as loss adjusting and legal expenses… Read more

Bermuda and Switzerland first to be assessed for SII equivalence

Bermuda and Switzerland - favoured domiciles for many international (re)insurers - are first on European regulators' list for granting Solvency II equivalence to non-EU countries… Read more

Insider Comment

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Rattling the tin

It goes without saying that brokers are always on the lookout for ways of maximising their revenues and that the pressure to do this is always cranked up a notch as soft markets begin to bite… Read more

Feature of the month

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All you (n)ever wanted to know about Solvency II...

Just in time for the launch of the final QIS5 specification, The Insurance Insider provides its own "cheat's guide" to Solvency II, explaining just exactly what it all means in (largely) jargon-free language… Read more

Scriven Profile

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Lord Ashton of Hyde (Faraday CEO Henry Ashton)

ON the face of it, it is a story of unadulterated privilege: the noble pedigree, the education commensurate with hereditary status (he followed his father to Eton), the stint at Sandhurst (again, in his pater's footsteps), the commission into a cavalry regiment… Read more

Research & Supplements

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Legacy Roundtable 2010

A tumultuous 12 months in both the live and legacy markets made for a dynamic and lively debate at the 2010 The Insurance Insider legacy roundtable, which coincided with the annual R&Q Commutations Rendez-Vous in Norwich. This thought-provoking debate makes for essential reading for anyone wishing to stay up to date on the key issues occupying the legacy sector's business leaders of today… Read more

Inside FAC New York Roundtable 2010

Industry rainmakers recently gathered in New York to thrash out a variety of issues including the viability of the Gulf of Mexico; the trouble between admitted and Excess & Surplus lines players; and proposed changes to TRIA… Read more

Legacy Norwich Rendez-Vous 2010

Many practitioners in the legacy industry would agree that continental Europe represents a new frontier for run-off opportunities. The question is how to unlock this business. IQ's legacy supplement caught up with senior market practitioners to explore the gulf between attitudes to run-off in the UK and Europe, as well as opinions on Solvency II, schemes of arrangement and diversification… Read more

Global Power & Energy Review 2010

Our first annual review focuses on a sector at the core of the modern productive economy, examining the key issues that affect dynamics for underwriters and insurance buyers across the upstream, midstream and downstream markets… Read more

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