February 2015/1

Guy Carpenter has recaptured a trio of senior Florida-focused North American property executives that had left the MMC reinsurance broker before joining Towers Watson back in 2010 and 2011

The Eurekahedge ILS Advisers index gained 5.38 percent in 2014, down almost a third from the 2013 return of 7.61 percent.

Former American International Group (AIG) CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg is expected to face the New York Supreme Court later this month in a long-awaited trial for fraud

One of the great perversities of capitalism is that the highest prizes are often handed out to those willing to take on the greatest amount of risk

Florida's Citizens is aiming to increase its risk transfer to the private reinsurance market from $3.27bn to $4.05bn for 2015, The Insurance Insider can reveal

US heavyweights Ace, Chubb and Travelers kicked off the fourth quarter reporting season with forecast-beating earnings after benign cat activity, higher reserve releases and stronger underlying performance boosted underwriting profits for the period.

Late last year the M&A virus claimed a new specialty (re)insurance victim in Platinum and all the evidence suggests that the market's historic resistance will give way to a pandemic

US commercial P&C pricing ended 2014 in negative territory as average rates across all account sizes dipped by 0.7 percent during the fourth quarter, the latest survey from the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) has revealed.