May 2014/3

A look-up table for The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers

Shares in live-to-legacy player Enstar climbed 5.13 percent last week following a three-fold surge in its reported first quarter profit to $29.6mn.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has rebuffed claims that the industry was involved in a "dirty deal" with the government over changes to the Mesothelioma Act, which came into force earlier this year.

The industry's multi-million dollar liability to American football players' concussion injuries remains unresolved four months after a US court rejected a $765mn settlement offer.

Recently downgraded Swiss engineering (re)insurer Infrassure has been granted a stay by the Swiss Supreme Court in its long-running Russia dispute against Allianz

The US government should look at successful state level initiatives to find ways of offloading risk to the private markets, according to panelists at The Insurance Insider's InsiderScope event in New York earlier this month

Aerospace rates continued to fall in the first quarter of 2014, with premium dropping by an average of 5 percent in reporting currency for 2013/14 programmes, according to Aon

Softening market conditions pressured top-line growth for global P&C reinsurers in the first quarter of 2014, according to analysis by The Insurance Insider's Data Room.

Global reinsurers' underwriting performance deteriorated modestly in the first three months of 2014, as combined ratios across the group widened following a period of softening rates

Despite a near-negligible burden from catastrophe losses during the first quarter of 2014, Bermudian (re)insurers produced contrasting results. The Insurance Insider's Data Room crunches the numbers...

Two Japanese insurers have launched new low-yielding cat bonds, while veteran ILS sponsor USAA is offering prospective investors a higher risk-return aggregate deal

RenaissanceRe is seeking a major new hedge for its Florida portfolio through the purchase of an indemnity retrocession cover providing up to $275mn of limit above a $75mn deductible.