US specialty insurer Navigators saw underwriting profits drop by 11 percent in the final quarter of last year as its top line contracted by 2.9 percent.
Everest Re's crop insurance division Heartland has partnered with Canadian firm Global Ag Risk Solutions to write production cost insurance for US farmers.
A clearer picture of which (re)insurers were affected by the trio of winter storms that hit the UK last year has started to emerge after carriers began publishing loss estimates.
XL Catlin has revealed that it lost less than 1 percent of business previously written by the two legacy firms in the wake of XL's $4.2bn acquisition of Catlin.
