January 2017/3

The $4bn price tag Onex has pinned on its up-for-sale US insurance broker USI represents a near 12x multiple of the intermediary's Ebitda.

Argo and Swiss Re have replaced Aspen as underwriters of Brownstone programme business in New York and Massachusetts

Argenta looks set to confound expectations of narrowing sale multiples for Lloyd's businesses if it can get a deal with one of its final-round bidders over the line

The search for the next Lloyd's chairman, which was due to conclude in mid-December, has been delayed further and it could be March before a decision is made on John Nelson's successor, The Insurance Insider has learned

Generali's push to remove EUR300-EUR400mn ($318mn-$424mn) of old US casualty liabilities from its balance sheet is indicative of a wider trend of carriers examining their back books in order to achieve higher operational efficiency

The news that a thinly reserved construction claim from 2009 - Noreco - could now cost energy insurers hundreds of millions of dollars will push the upstream market just that little closer to breaking point

The popular block-balancing game Jenga is a great way of instilling an understanding of risk management in young and old alike

The upstream energy market has appealed to overturn a judgment that would force it to pay a claim worth $470mn that sources indicated was reserved until the fourth quarter in the low tens of millions