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  • Moody's became the latest ratings agency to express workers' comp concerns and warned of weak employment profitability, long-term structural changes in the US labour markets and persistently low interest rates.
  • Endurance Specialty became the latest Bermudian to disclose an initial Sandy loss estimate as it said the storm will have a pre-tax impact of $160mn net of reinsurance and reinstatement premium.
  • Lloyd's exclusive £1bn+ capacity club will grow by 50 percent in 2013 as Beazley 623 and Liberty secured capacity increases that make them eligible for entry.
  • The proposed takeover of Alterra Capital by US insurer Markel has again highlighted that companies valued at a discount to their net assets are ripe for a take-out.
  • IAG's A$4bn+ cat treaty renewal has paid an increase to underwriters to reflect the deterioration in its New Zealand quake loss numbers for the year, but a number of major accounts have priced down.
  • With US property catastrophe renewals proceeding relatively straightforwardly and loss-free business renewing roughly flat, attention is shifting towards a marine market caught in deadlock post-Sandy.
  • Endurance Specialty became the latest Bermudian to disclose an initial Sandy loss estimate as it said the storm will have a pre-tax impact of $160mn net of reinsurance and reinstatement premium
  • The acquisition of Bermudian (re)insurer Alterra will allow Markel to expand into reinsurance and give the firm a more diverse product and geographic underwriting portfolio, executives of the two companies have explained.
  • Through its proposed acquisition of Alterra, Markel is aiming to create a bigger, more diversified carrier whose profitability is made greater than its constituent parts by synergies, increased cat appetite and an overhaul of the Bermudian company's investment portfolio.
  • With Alterra's board agreeing to sell the company for just below book value without any evidence of a formal sales process, the question of a competitor bid is naturally being raised.