Casualty

Casualty market ‘headed for crossroads’ but capacity stays ‘plentiful’
26 February 2025   Rate hikes lag behind social inflation but reinsurers push for growth at slim margins.

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Guy Carpenter’s Jennifer Paretchan shared insights into trends that shaped the renewals and what they signal for the future of reinsurance.
Reinsurance
As casualty starts to experience turbulence, greater discipline is needed by all. That was one headline finding by a panel of senior casualty executives.
Insurance
Insurtechs are at the forefront of the movers and shakers and mould breakers of the re/insurance world. Intelligent Insurer selects its top 25 to watch
Insurance
Markel’s Tom Williams highlights the opportunities brought about by the historic US government bill.
Insurance
The legacy sector is increasingly becoming an integral part of the wider re/insurance market, and IRLA is seeing a membership boost as a result, as two of its directors explain.
Insurance
Memories of the World Trade Center attacks and the resulting stories of heroism remain etched in people’s minds. Marking the 20th anniversary of the events, RMS has published a whitepaper addressing how 9/11 changed the insurance industry’s view of terrorism risk.
Insurance
The threat of catastrophe losses from hurricanes may be re/insurers’ main concern when writing business in Florida—but, in fact, there are many arguably bigger challenges that are manmade, and therefore potentially preventable.
Operational Risk
Florida accounts for some 10 percent of all cat risk globally, but the market is in crisis—again. A panel of experts discussed some of the challenges facing the state’s insurance carriers and what that means for the reinsurers that support them.
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11 February 2025   The actuary previously worked at Greenlight Re, Renaissance Re and African Risk Capacity.
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6 February 2025   P&C chief Althoff saw ‘no particular need’ to cancel or cut any programmes.
6 February 2025   Executive to steer portfolio strategy through broker partnerships and customer service.
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