June 2016/2

Risk managers and insurance industry professionals congregated in the UK spa town of Harrogate last week to attend Airmic's 2016 conference, which centred on the theme of "new frontiers in risk".

Florida insurer Universal opted to purchase more all-state cat cover and placed a greater proportion of its programme on a multi-year basis.

United Insurance Holdings has bought an additional $100mn of limit to take its cascading cat cover to $685mn ahead of the 2016 hurricane season.

Three months after taking the top job at Zurich, and Mario Greco has already put his stamp on the global carrier.

The Placing Platform Limited (PPL) initiative is scheduled to go live in July, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Lancashire's Lloyd's arm Cathedral has brought in Jon Barnes as its new head of property treaty, The Insurance Insider can reveal

US insurer Nationwide returned to the market at the end of May after completing its property catastrophe reinsurance placement to buy an extra $1bn of vertical limit, The Insurance Insider has learned.

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A bidding process for Lloyd's (re)insurer Ariel has finally launched months after an investment bank was retained to advise the company on its strategic options, The Insurance Insider can reveal.