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It is a testing time for the Argo management team.
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It’s Halloween and the (re)insurance industry is running scared. But the ghastly sounds are not the groans of ghouls or the shrieks of spectres. Instead, it is the moaning and wailing of underwriters astonished at the latest vast liability award.
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It was one of those announcements which left the Insider team scratching their heads at first.
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The finale of the US managing general agency (MGA) conference was a casino night, put on by the claims giant Sedgwick.
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How was your company’s cloud “journey”? Was it redemptive, like the path from convicted criminal to TV talent show winner? Did you learn a lot about yourself in the process, and more importantly do you love the destination?
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Yesterday, we broke the news that Greenlight Re’s board had rejected a bid from Catalina to acquire the business at a circa 25 percent premium to the share price.
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Trapped capital – or “trapital” as we dubbed it in the newsroom one day – remains a key theme in discussions in the run-up to 1 January renewals.
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On Wednesday, sister publication Inside P&C called Travelers the “dead canary” in the coalmine on social inflation trends in the US P&C sector.
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There’s a familiar feeling of Groundhog Day to the annual reinsurance gathering at Baden-Baden.
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Politics is dominating much of the news agenda on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, it is the continuing issues arising out of Brexit, while in the US, we are now some 13 months from a presidential election and the debates are heating up.
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Retro pricing rose at 1 January 2018. And it rose substantially on those levels 12 months later as the Great Reload gave way to the Great Lockup.
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The demise of Neil Woodford and his funds empire will have wide reverberations for many months.