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Excess & Surplus Lines
15 May 2026 If your syndicate isn’t a flow-drawing, price-setting lead, it may be part of a problem.
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Insurance
‘No COVID-19 impact on Q2 underwriting results’ but pandemic has hit investment income, firm reports.
Insurance
Softening rates in the mainstream reinsurance market have driven players to seek growth in alternative lines. Focusing on one of those lines—excess and surplus—Intelligent Insurer looks at new entrants seeking a part of the action and asks whether this market has the sustainability for increased capacity.
Insurance
A mixture of economic incentives and new regulation has brought change to the US excess and surplus lines market. We ask which companies won and lost in 2010, and who will gain in 2011.
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22 April 2026 Has non-renewed a ‘substantial’ part of layered property, added reinsurance cover.
20 April 2026 Excess & umbrella back to double digit pricing gains by March after volatile Q4.
20 April 2026 Cheap reinsurance, a low-loss quarter, abundant ILS heap on the competition.
1 April 2026 Strait of Hormuz closure did not affect 1/4 reinsurance negotiations.
31 March 2026 Excess & surplus seen as sustaining growth, despite pricing pressure in core lines.
31 March 2026 Excess auto capacity still contracting; agriculture won’t recoup lost capacity fast.
30 March 2026 Capacity can remain spotty where carriers still push portfolios onto modelled paths.
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