Issues

Both 1.1 and 1.4 renewals concluded with only minor rate gains.

Given how much of its asset base was locked up if not lost, the fact that it pulled off the feat of bringing in more than $2.3bn to enable it to renew its portfolio for 2018 was impressive.

The Insider 50 inched up by 0.3 percent to reach 1,139.20 index points last week.

Patricia Mills of Chaucer soars to third place in the second edition of The Insurance Insider's survey

Chaucer’s Bauckham and CNA Hardy’s Powell top PV underwriters, this publication's second survey reveals.

The US insurer has returned to the cat bond market to renew a $300mn cover.

Final pricing on the $450mn Caelus Re comes in at the low end of a revised target range.

The retro manager’s 2017 losses have jumped to more than 41 percent of net asset value from a previously predicted 28 percent.

Action is needed to reduce uncertainty around the final risks, notes Harvesting Opportunity.

Survey respondents also name consolidation as a key way to improve efficiency

InsiderTech Silicon Valley attendees also told to expect further wave of failures.

Panellists at the Chicago conference discuss ambiguity around policy wordings and fears about massive BI-related losses.