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Coverys, which announced the acquisition of Randall & Quilter (R&Q)'s Lloyd's managing agency late last month, bought the business as the first step in driving growth within the London market, according to its CEO.

Surplus capacity caused by "blatant over investment" by capital providers is to blame for the persistent rate reductions in the upstream energy market, according to JLT

Wholesale giant AmWins is launching a new facility to offer additional shared and layered property insurance limit with capacity from Munich Re, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Famous writer and thinker George Orwell once wrote an essay about killing an elephant.

Lloyd's deputy chairman; PRA raises facilities concerns; Kilpatrick joins Fidelis; MS Amlin in Brussels; Hailstorm Paul losses...

Nephila's property cat-focused MGA Velocity Risk Underwriters is working with some of the largest US personal lines carriers on an initiative that could see it write a significant portfolio of coastal exposure, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Fairfax put the Latin American reinsurance market to the test as it sought up to $200mn of cover for a number of businesses in the region that it acquired from AIG late last year, The Insurance Insider understands

London Market Group (LMG) CEO Chris Beazley has offered to carry out on-site visits to London market practitioners to improve the sector's understanding of the trade body's goals

Amlin-owned insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Leadenhall's support of InsurTech life insurance start-up Gryphon Group Holdings is connected to a reinsurance transaction, Trading Risk reported.

Swiss Re expanded its Sector Re sidecar to $492mn midway through 2017 to increase its retro support from the vehicle by $100mn in the past year, sister publication Trading Risk revealed last week.

With the current pricing environment leaving little room for P&C (re)insurers to boost their profits, expense management has become an increasingly popular strategy for widening margins.

P&C (re)insurers benefited from another quarter of low catastrophe loss levels, with the only large cat events occurring in the US.