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A QBE spokesperson confirmed that 2017 catastrophe losses are expected to exhaust its $900mn aggregate reinsurance programme, which is understood to be written by Berkshire Hathaway.

Alex Jomaa of CFC Underwriting has been voted the top cyber underwriter in the London market for the second year running, according to The Insurance Insider's 2017 cyber rankings survey

Let me take a wild guess - I bet you're glad it's not Q3 2017 anymore.

Concern is mounting in the market that Nagico, the dominant insurer in the Dutch Caribbean, will shoot through the top of its reinsurance programme after St Maarten was devastated by Hurricane Irma.

John Sutton and Toby Humphreys, who led Integro's UK operation for more than a decade until their exit in March this year, are planning to launch a new brokerage, The Insurance Insider understands.

For a long time the traffic has been going in the other direction. Independent brokers were selling up, accepting the inevitable march of consolidation.

A long-term decline in non-fatal workplace accidents and injuries combined with improving loss experience helped workers' compensation carriers to greater profitability last year as premiums climbed to a record $58.5bn

Uncertainty over the cost of hurricanes Irma and Maria has put the brakes on the recovery of the secondary cat bond market, which had initially rebounded.

(Re)insurance stocks climbed by 3.8 percent in the third quarter to hint at investor confidence in carrier balance sheets, despite an onslaught of natural catastrophes that threaten to wipe out the year's reinsurance premium intake.