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  • As reinsurers begin drawing up underwriting plans for 2010, they are likely to once again consider holding back capacity for increased demand for Florida wind cover at 1.6.
  • The dearth of significant merger and acquisition (M&A) activity following the global financial crisis is set to ease into 2010, according to Tony Ursano, CEO of Willis capital markets and advisory.
  • Capital has returned, and a softer reinsurance market looks likely; but 2009 earnings should be bountiful.
  • Non-life M&A activity has not traditionally been linked with the Atlantic hurricane season - a time of heightened uncertainty as the market awaits news of destabilising losses arising out of major catastrophes.
  • The new CEO of American International Group (AIG) took the top job at the insurance giant aware that the industry and its commentators would be watching his every move – as well as the group's stock price.
  • Dear friend, If you ever meet anyone who says they know what is going to happen tomorrow - either immediately hire them as your to underwriter or look ruefully to the skies and make a mental note never to listen to a word they say again.
  • UK run-off acquisition firm Randall & Quilter (R&Q) booked a £1.2mn pre-tax profit for the first half of 2009 despite taking a £2.7mn unrealised investment loss on perpetuals and a £2mn hit for legal costs over litigation with Equitas in the Brandywine ca
  • A consensus is emerging among industry leaders that the much championed (re)insurance hard market – flagged up in countless bullish interim reports since the end of 2008 – is turning into a mirage.
  • Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has upgraded two tranches of notes on Brit Insurance's 2007 cat swap deal, Fremantle Ltd, as the likelihood of a loss diminishes while the transaction moves closer to maturity in June 2010.
  • The volatile combination of the subprime, credit and economic crisesand hurricanes Gustav and Ike has contributed to a 15 percent rise innew claims in the first quarter of 2009 against the same period last year – a figure which represents the beginning of a claims surge likely to peak inapproximately two years, according to industry leaders.