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Pioneer's troubles will have made it even tougher for the harder-pressed MGAs to prove their worth -
Lloyd's looks like an attractive opportunity for private equity (PE) right now in three obvious ways.
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At 11pm local time the UK will leave the EU.
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When looking at rate trends for large directors’ and officers’ (D&O) accounts, one could call the situation a tale of two markets.
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If early reporters Travelers and RLI are reliable cross-industry bellwethers, it looks like significantly lower overall catastrophe losses last year will flatter carriers’ Q4 and 2019 results and offset much of the damage from spiralling casualty claims.
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Large limits, multi-year exposures and huge volatility evoke the company Duperreault inherited.
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The legal battle between MMC and Hyperion over two mass team lifts ended quietly last week, heralded only by a joint statement disclosing a confidential settlement.
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In the Florida market there is clearly a close relationship, albeit a financial disjuncture, between the thinly capitalised private players and the reinsurers that assume their cat risk. As such it will nigh on impossible for watchdogs to achieve fundamental change without considering the whole system.
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Who remembers the Equifax breach?
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Only a matter of months ago “social inflation” sounded slightly arcane. It has since become the industry’s main preoccupation.
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Since December we have been stressing that the major fourth-quarter results story is likely to be reserve charges taken by carriers that write US casualty books.
