All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 12 2016 // The negative impact of low interest rates and soft market pricing on London market insurers has been partially offset by low levels of large claims, according to Fitch Ratings in a special report.London market insurers...
Apr 11 2016 // Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will headline an event next month at a Southern California university to benefit insurance students.Schwarzenegger will be joined by Robert Hartwig, an economist and president...
Apr 7 2016 // Pardus, the London-based independent managing general agency (MGA), announced the completion of a £1.6 million ($2.3 million) capital raising, which attracted a variety of new private investors into the business.Pardus...
Apr 4 2016 // The U.K.’s new joint industry and government sponsored reinsurance scheme for flood risk began operating today (April 4).Designed to help provide access to affordable flood insurance cover for households at the...
Apr 4 2016 // Jeff Dailey, CEO of Farmers Insurance, turned what could have been a mere acceptance speech into a lesson-filled personal account of his first time seeing the devastation wreaked by the May 2011 tornado in Joplin,...
Apr 4 2016 // Just as Iowa, and Des Moines in particular, in the 1980s fostered a business climate that enabled insurance and financial institutions to prosper there, those same forces, intent on creating an environment that supports...
Apr 4 2016 // Following the 2016 Florida Legislative Session’s failure to pass essential assignment of benefit (AOB) reforms, the insurance industry and Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are working in tandem with the Florida...
Apr 4 2016 // With cyber insurance premiums expected to grow from around $2 billion in 2015 to an estimated $20 billion or more by 2025, insurers and reinsurers are continuing to refine underwriting requirements, according to industry...
Apr 4 2016 // ACE’s $28.3 billion purchase of Chubb will create a major disruption in the luxury insurance market. When the integration of the two insurers is complete, the new company is anticipated to control approximately $6...
Apr 4 2016 // It’s no secret that the insurance industry is facing a huge talent gap. Almost half of all insurance professionals are over age 45, with 25 percent of the industry expected to retire by 2018. That’s a...
Apr 1 2016 // April 1, 2016- If you are an insurance agent trying to survive in today’s competitive marketplace, you may have dipped your toes in the flood insurance waters, so to speak. If you have not, get ready to jump in,...
Apr 1 2016 // I chose April 1 to publish this article because so many are expecting a joke; well this is no joke. In fact, I can’t be more serious.Three days ago I published an article about the “primary and...
Apr 1 2016 // Lloyd’s announced it intends to file an application to open a reinsurance branch in Mumbai, following the publication of regulations governing the Lloyd’s market earlier this week by the Insurance Regulatory...
Mar 31 2016 // Mark down the Climate Change and Global Warming Working Group as the odds-on favorite committee to produce the most interesting chatter during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting next week in The...
Mar 30 2016 // Iowa, and Des Moines in particular, in the 1980s fostered a business climate that enabled insurance and financial institutions to prosper there. Today, the focus is on creating an environment that supports innovation and...
Mar 28 2016 // The early bird registration deadline for the third annual Global Insurance Symposium is Thursday, March 31.The Global Insurance Symposium will be held on April 26-28, 2016 in Downtown Des Moines, Iowa. It is hosted by the...
Mar 28 2016 // ACE’s $28.3 billion purchase of Chubb will create a major disruption in the luxury insurance market. When the integration of the two insurers is complete, the new company is anticipated to control approximately $6...
Mar 25 2016 // For the first time in 13 years, Florida is preparing to appoint a new insurance commissioner. The pool of 55 candidates has been whittled down to just two.Per recommendation of the Florida Cabinet, Jeffrey Bragg and...
Mar 21 2016 // PrtnerRe’s new owner EXOR has closed its $6.9 billion acquisition of the Bermuda-based reinsurer, and Fitch Ratings quickly responded with a ratings downgrade that reflects some pessimism over the transaction and the...
Mar 21 2016 // Following the 2016 Florida Legislative Session’s failure to pass essential assignment of benefit (AOB) reforms, the insurance industry and Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are working in tandem with the Florida...