Europe-focused professional lines MGA Alta Signa appears to be succeeding where many others have failed: building a retail distribution network for specialty risks across the continent. The company’s chief executive, Gerard Van Loon, speaks to Insurance Day

Rates are continuing to rise in the US excess and surplus lines market, but now is not the time to loosen underwriting discipline, says the president of Argo Group’s E&S division

The company's chief executive, Harry Croydon, hopes the launch of the firm’s syndicate-in-a-box with Asta could kickstart a highly scalable Lloyd’s microinsurance market

Carriers need to be more circumspect when underwriting and brokers must stop introducing wordings into the market that are not sustainable in the longer term, the chief executive of renewable energy underwriter GCube says

Current market conditions are fundamentally changing the calculation of where and how reinsurance capacity is being deployed in the market, Rob Ashton, the chief executive of the specialty reinsurance MGA, argues

The reinsurance start-up is well positioned to benefit from the capacity issues in the catastrophe excess-of-loss market, according to Conduit Re’s executive chairman and chief executive