May 2011/1

Marketform Syndicate 2468 lost £81mn in 2010 as it was again forced to strengthen its reserves to cover mushrooming losses from its run-off Italian medical malpractice portfolio.

Kiln matched Lloyd's quoted aristocracy Amlin and Hiscox in posting a sub-90 percent combined ratio for 2010 as it withstood a significant uptick in cat activity.

The Hanover's takeover bid for Chaucer could face a struggle to complete at the current recommended price after lead shareholder Pamplona voiced its opposition to the terms.

Delphi Financial's due diligence ahead of formalising its offer for Omega is moving at a glacial pace, as a serious takeover approach for the Lloyd's carrier again struggles to gain traction, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

The tornadoes that raged across the southern US and Midwest last month could cost more than $5bn, with some senior figures privately calculating the figure could be closer to $8bn-$10bn.

Concerns over major contingent business interruption (CBI) claims emerging from the 11 March Japan disaster are growing as a host of well-known names including Ford, Apple and General Motors have put their insurers on notice of possible claims, The Insurance Insider has learned.

Liberty Mutual rescues Quinn Insurance; Green light for CEO; Generali's EUR16mn goodbye; Berkley upbeat...; ...And so is Munich Re; $100mn brand protector; Montpelier raises $150mn; Scor's $900mn life move; Jain's hagiography; Japan giants' earnings fall; QBE leads $160mn floatel Jupiter loss

Towergate looks beyond 2010 losses; JLT Re hire; Lightyear withdraws; RBSI cleans up; BMS launches Lloyd's MGA; Nelson next; JLT's Thistle de-headed; RSA upgraded; Hardy hire.

The triggering of a key 70bn yen layer exposes cat reinsurers to further losses as PartnerRe becomes first to publicly increase its estimates...

Deep-keeled boats in a tidal port all tend to face the same way - their bows pointing against the direction of the tidal flow.

Less than two months after completing the protracted £880mn ($1.4bn) Brit Insurance buy-out, the private equity consortium Apollo and CVC are reducing their exposures to the Lloyd's insurer, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

On the eve of another hurricane season, US cat reinsurers are now widely expected to enjoy typical rate increases of around 10 percent on their mid-year renewal programmes as the scale of recent catastrophe losses, changes to the RMS model and falling reserve releases make their mark on the psychology of capacity providers.