May 2015/1

Hamilton Insurance Group has started the process of upsizing and diversifying the former Sportscover platform at Lloyd's by hiring a team to write space business, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Lloyd's lead market QBE has started offering some of its clients $500mn lines on their upstream energy programmes.

Amid another relatively light period for major catastrophe losses, US-listed P&C companies have largely surpassed analysts' earnings forecasts during this year's first quarter reporting season

A quick glance in the history books shows that there has never been a monopoly on how to go about things. Concurrently competing empires and philosophies have been slugging it out since time immemorial.

Claims from Turkish Airlines and Asiana Airlines and the higher-profile loss of Germanwings flight 9525 may already have pushed the airline insurance market into a loss-making position for 2015.

There are early signs of a long-awaited pricing floor being found in the US property cat reinsurance market in the run up to the mid-year renewals, The Insurance Insider can reveal.