October 2014/1

Valuations on a price-to-book basis have fallen by 6 percent for the companies in The Insider 30 in the year to date, as sentiment on the sector has turned negative following 2013's stellar share price performance

Enstar operating subsidiary Torus has hired four senior underwriters from Zurich's construction team as it continues to rebuild following a number of defections earlier in the year, The Insurance Insider can reveal

A relative bright spot as passenger reserve set far lower than feared

Air India changed the leader of its war policy from Ace to XL as it fought to secure a favourable deal amid an extremely hard post-loss rating environment, sister title Inside FAC has revealed

The combined reserves for Air Algérie flight AH5017 and TransAsia Airways flight GE222 amount to $160mn, The Insurance Insider can reveal

Air France has successfully renewed its mammoth all-risk insurance programme on expiring terms as signs emerged that rate increases in the loss-struck airline market will fall short of initial expectations

2014 auctions nowhere near as oversubscribed as a year ago

Weekly share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers

Legacy insurer Armour Group took the "unlimited" layer of the $390mn comprehensive reinsurance deal purchased by QBE to remove the reserving risk from its Italian and Spanish medical malpractice books

P&C (re)insurance stocks fell back into negative territory in September as our index of listed carriers - The Insider 30 - contracted by 0.96 percent during the month.

Florida regulators have approved Homeowners Choice P&C Insurance Company (HCI) to take 37,500 wind-only policies out of state-backed insurer Citizens, in a move likely to see it significantly increase its reinsurance cover next year

The former CEO and president of Aon Risk Solutions in Puerto Rico has sued for age discrimination after he was allegedly "sidelined" in favour of a "significantly younger" replacement.