1 June 2012Insurance

London Market 2012: The best in a bad year

Size is not everything when it comes to business—or insurance—as many a grizzled London Market underwriter will tell you. In insurance, in particular, it can certainly represent a double-edged sword: while capacity often means the ability to better negotiate prices, the achievement of that size in the first place may well have meant cutting them.

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