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  • Bermudian Alterra cut back the amount of premium it retains net on its property reinsurance account in the first quarter of the year in the latest example of a (re)insurer rethinking its approach to catastrophe risk after a bruising sequence of events in 2011.
  • The efficacy of the model employed by recent hedge fund style reinsurer start-ups such as Third Point Re and PaCRe has been challenged by industry investors.
  • Florida reinsurance rates will not increase as much as underwriters would like at the 1 June renewals even though demand is notably up.
  • Spanish (re)insurance heavyweight Mapfre increased its reinsurance underwriting in the first quarter by 12.5 percent year on year to EUR 738.4mn.
  • Moody's Investors Service was the third rating agency to upgrade Scor in recent weeks, taking its financial strength ratings to A1 from A2 on the back of consistent results and strong capitalisation.  
  • Commercial P&C prices in the US were up 4.4 percent on average in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the prior-year period, according to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB).
  • Germany-headquartered insurance titan Allianz has told the market that it will announce operating profits of EUR2.3bn for the first three months, an increase of 40 percent on last year.
  • New York Stock Exchange-listed claims management business Crawford & Company saw its net income fall by 48 percent to $6.22bn in the first quarter, as the pace of work on claims from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill slowed
  • Bermudian (re)insurer XL Group posted net income of $177mn in the first quarter, up from a $227mn loss last year, as higher-than-expected reserve releases and modest cat losses strengthened the bottom line
  • After tripling the size of its debut cat bond issue, state-backed Florida insurer Citizens is also increasing its transfer of risk to the traditional reinsurance market after its board authorised the purchase of $750mn of limit.