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  • US insurer Assurant Inc has seen its base reinsurance premiums increase from $141mn to $185mn for its 2009 property catastrophe reinsurance programme, but has also significantly increased the protection available.
  • Category 4 Hurricane Emily has made landfall in Mexico causing widespread damage to the country’s Caribbean beach resorts on the Yucatan Peninsula.
  • The recent flows of hedge fund capital into the (re)insurance sector may spark the industry’s decline into the next soft market, a leading US insurance analyst has warned.
  • Bermudian reinsurer Everest Re saw second-quarter net income increase 78 percent to $272.6mn, compared to $153.0mn for Q2 2008, after being helped by higher premiums written and an increase in the fair value of its equity portfolio.
  • Spanish (re)insurer Mapfre reported a 5.2 percent slide in year-on-year net profits for the first nine months of 2010 to EUR704.5mn, although revenues grew over the period by 9.2 percent to EUR15.7bn ($21.7bn).
  • Syndicate 138 is set to close or merge with another syndicate after its corporate backer SAFECO has decided to exit Lloyd’s. Jonathan Gale, Syndicate 138 underwriter, has already resigned from the syndicate less than a year after being appointed as Ralph
  • Europe's largest insurer, Allianz, has added to the flurry of first quarter cat bonds after combining with Aon Benfield and Goldman Sachs to issue the $150mn US wind and quake bond Blue Fin II.
  • A report by Lloyd's has warned (re)insurers that they must face up to climate change and manage risks from greenhouse gases and rising sea levels or they will not survive.
  • The direct and facultative (D&F) market can expect to pay the lion's share of losses from last February's Chile earthquake, with a 60 percent share of total reinsured losses of $8.5bn, according to Aon Benfield
  • TSM Agency is the latest Lloyd's insurer to put itself up for sale a mere 18 months after launching the specialist engineering Syndicate 1110, The Insurance Insider can reveal