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Catastrophe modelling firm RMS has increased its estimate for insured losses from the wildfires that ravaged California's wine-producing regions from $3bn-$6bn to $6bn-$8bn.
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The fall conference season has been dominated by talk of the opportunities - real or imagined - for underwriters to push for price rises, from retro down through reinsurance to the primary business
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Zurich has lured Steve Tresadern away from Talbot as it prepares to re-enter the downstream energy market in London, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
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Neil Chapman, the former head of direct and facultative (D&F) at Argo Global, is set to join THB's MGA platform Unicorn Underwriters, The Insurance Insider can reveal
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The Mexican state education authority is leading a string of direct and facultative (D&F) losses expected by the London market following the two earthquakes which struck the country in September.
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These Mexican losses are just the tip of the iceberg for the London direct and facultative (D&F) market.
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Caribbean telecoms company Digicel is expected to claim $45mn-$50mn of losses on its property policy as a result of damage from Hurricane Irma, The Insurance Insider understands.
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Former Dual CEO Talbir Bains is set to return at 1 January with a start-up MGA known as Volante that will look to commence underwriting operations across four continents, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
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As insurers and their reinsurers continue the challenging task of assessing HIM exposures, there is anecdotal evidence that US property underwriters are beginning to demand rate increases at renewal.
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A combative round of renewals negotiations looms in the upstream energy market as carriers vie for increases of as much as 10 percent, according to JLT Specialty's quarterly round-up of the energy market.
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A combative round of renewals negotiations looms in the upstream energy market as carriers vie for increases of as much as 10 percent, according to JLT Specialty's quarterly round-up of the energy market.
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Skuld-backed special purpose arrangement (SPA) Agora has received Lloyd's approval to become a syndicate, its third-party managing agent Asta said today