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  • The World Bank has provided the Uruguayan state-owned hydro-electric power company with a $450mn weather and oil price insurance cover, and has reinsured the risk with Swiss Re and Nephila Capital through the latter's partnership with fronting reinsurer Allianz.
  • A WR Berkley subsidiary is expected to appeal a jury decision that indirectly left it on the hook for at least $178mn after a trucking company it insured was found liable for wrongful death, The Insurance Insider understands.
  • French reinsurer Scor has bought EUR200mn ($272mn) of protection against extreme natural catastrophe and mortality risk in an innovative contingent capital deal with Swiss bank UBS.
  • Legal & General has completed a longevity swap with two BAE Systems pension plans that cover £1.7bn of liabilities, in the fourth such deal for December as 2013 volumes reached a new peak.
  • Bermudian (re)insurer Argo Group has lifted the target size on its new Loma Re cat bond to $165mn as 2013 insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance becomes poised to break through the watershed barrier of $7.5bn.
  • Although 2013 proved to be a benign year for major insured US catastrophe losses, the year served as a reminder that relatively few events can still have significant consequences in terms of economic losses, analytics firm CoreLogic said in its latest natural hazard risk report.
  • Total insured losses arising from natural catastrophes and man-made events almost halved in 2013 compared to 2012, according to preliminary estimates from Swiss Re.
  • Although the Lloyd's market as a whole witnessed a 5.9 percent increase in stamp capacity to £26.3bn, the top quarter of underwriting performers actually saw their combined stamps shrink by 0.5 percent.
  • As much as 35 percent of the £1.5bn growth in Lloyd's stamp capacity in 2014 stems from syndicates that have entered the market since 2010.
  • Randall & Quilter has almost doubled the underwriting capacity of its Syndicate 1991 to £150mn for next year after launching at the start of 2013, placing it at the top of the largest risers list.