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  • Argo Group's bottom line benefited from higher reserve releases as the Bermudian reported operating income for the first quarter that climbed 25 percent to $25.1mn or $0.93 a share compared to $20.1mn or $0.71 a share in the prior-year period.
  • American International Group's (AIG) P&C business saw first quarter operating profits drop 26 percent to $1.16bn as it fell to an underwriting loss driven by higher catastrophe losses and reserve charges.
  • US commercial insurance rate increases moderated to 2 percent in April amid growing pressure that could lead to a softening market by the end of the year, according to MarketScout.
  • Guy Carpenter has added to its US mutual company specialty practice with further hires from JLT Towers Re.
  • Further deterioration of reserves and a slump in book value per share (BVPS) at beleaguered US insurer Tower Group has raised doubts over the consummation of its proposed $3 a share acquisition by AmTrust founder Michael Karfunkel's ACP Re vehicle.
  • Berkshire Hathaway operating profits fell 6.6 percent to $3.53bn, or $2,149 a share for the first quarter as the investment conglomerate missed Wall Street consensus forecasts of $2,172 a share in part because of a drop-off in underwriting profits in its (re)insurance business.
  • Aspen Insurance Holdings CEO Chris O'Kane has reiterated his complete rejection of a "disruptive and value-destroying" proposed takeover bid from Endurance.
  • Marsh registered organic revenue growth of 4 percent in the first quarter, but Marsh & McLennan Companies' (MMC) reinsurance broking arm Guy Carpenter posted flat underlying revenues as the first effects of softening reinsurance rates became apparent
  • Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian insurance-focused financial conglomerate, today (2 May) reported a near five-fold increase in profits during the first quarter, helped by gains on its equity investments and an improved performance from its underwriting businesses.
  • Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, is set to report a drop of about 8 percent in its first quarter profit, but remains on course to achieve its earnings target of EUR3bn ($4.1bn) for 2014 as a whole, according to its chief executive.