Insurance Day is part of the Business Intelligence Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC’s registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Menu

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use. For high-quality copies or electronic reprints for distribution to colleagues or customers, please call UK support +44 (0)20 3377 3996 / APAC support at +65 6508 2430

Printed By

UsernamePublicRestriction
Menu
Subscribe
Meet the Team
Marketing Services
PDF Library
Whitepapers & Supplements
London Market Awards
RSS Feeds
Customer Support
UsernamePublicRestriction

Specialty

Jump To Section
  • P&I renewal expected to see limited tonnage movement
  • Wider marine rate reductions have slowed or reversed, IUMI says
  • Underwriters assessing cash-in-transit exposures following losses in South America


Bookmark
  • Analysis

Marine reinsurance poised for flat renewal despite losses

By Antony Ireland
The market has been hit by some major hull and cargo losses, prompting reinsurers to look closely at cedants' portfolios
Reinsurance Marine Renewals
Bookmark
  • Analysis

Energy reinsurers look for rate increases in delicately balanced market

By Antony Ireland
Downstream business more exposed to upwards pricing pressure, given recent large risk and cat losses 
Specialty Energy

Latest on Specialty

JLT deal takes Marsh’s Baker to top of Lloyd’s List marine rankings
Miller expands credit and political risk team
RKH hires Franzman to lead Asia marine business
Lloyd’s yacht market shows signs of recovery after Irma wake-up call
RSA appoints Jones to lead restructured London market unit
Markel targets yacht market growth through Pantaenius partnership
P&I clubs’ diversification strategies called into question
Markel International creates standalone marine and energy divisions
Marsh launches social unrest cover
Energy reinsurers look for rate increases in delicately balanced market
Insurance 'can help enable mega-constellation growth'
Aurous hires Qatar Re energy duo as it gears up for January 2019 launch
London underwriters consider product launches for autonomous vessels
Energy rate increases slow amid ‘eerily low’ upstream losses
LSM increases specie capacity to $250m
Axa XL partners with cargo monitoring and tracking company
International Group unveils new chairman and chief executive
Markel expands Philpin role in trade credit team
Alesco boosts energy team with Dewey hire
Marine underwriting loss grows as Lloyd’s specialties continue to underperform
Global marine premiums rise, but outpaced by exposure
Marine hull rates now ‘unsustainable’
Nexus acquires aerospace MGA from Castel
Pool Re in discussions with ‘range of investors’ about potential ILS
Chubb promotes Berry to European head of surety
Advertisement

Set Alert for Insurance Day Markets :: Specialty
Cancel
Remove Alert

Are you sure you'd like to remove this alert? You will no longer receive email updates about this topic.

Marine


Bookmark
  • News

Marine underwriting loss grows as Lloyd’s specialties continue to underperform

By Scott Vincent

All segments apart from reinsurance produce accident-year combined ratios above 100% in H1

International Specialty Marine

Marine updates

JLT deal takes Marsh’s Baker to top of Lloyd’s List marine rankings
Viewpoint: The lessons for underwriters from the Hanjin Shipping collapse
Gard's Roppestad: 'The downward pressure on premiums in the marine market must stop'
RKH hires Franzman to lead Asia marine business
Lloyd’s yacht market shows signs of recovery after Irma wake-up call
Viewpoint: New maritime environmental regulations will stretch limits of P&I cover
RSA appoints Jones to lead restructured London market unit
Chaucer coverholder Lonham adds marine underwriter
Markel targets yacht market growth through Pantaenius partnership
Tokio Marine HCC appoints Carr to lead marine liability growth
P&I clubs’ diversification strategies called into question
RSA exits lines following London market overhaul
Legal Focus: Fatigue damage ends energy claim
Markel International creates standalone marine and energy divisions
Channel syndicate exits three classes
Tokio Marine Kiln to close Hong Kong operations
Marine reinsurance poised for flat renewal despite losses
Standard Syndicate to go into run-off as capital backer exits Lloyd's
London underwriters consider product launches for autonomous vessels
Lancashire shares plunge 7% on Q3 profit warning
Axa XL partners with cargo monitoring and tracking company
International Group unveils new chairman and chief executive
CNA Hardy exits three Lloyd's classes as underwriting chief departs
Lürssen super-yacht fire could cost hull re/insurers $700m
Marine underwriting loss grows as Lloyd’s specialties continue to underperform

Set Alert for Insurance Day Specialty :: Marine
Cancel
Remove Alert

Are you sure you'd like to remove this alert? You will no longer receive email updates about this topic.

Energy


Bookmark
  • News

Energy rate increases slow amid ‘eerily low’ upstream losses

By Scott Vincent

Market may have to wait 18 months for adequate upswing in pricing, Lloyd & Partners warns

International Specialty Energy

Energy updates

Focus: Insuring the transition to a renewable energy future
Focus: Renewable energy insurers must take cyber risk more seriously
Focus: ARTfully reversing the decline in renewable energy investment
Travelers adds GCube duo to Lloyd’s renewables team
BMS makes senior energy hire
Markel International creates standalone marine and energy divisions
Energy reinsurers look for rate increases in delicately balanced market
Aurous hires Qatar Re energy duo as it gears up for January 2019 launch
Energy rate increases slow amid ‘eerily low’ upstream losses
Alesco boosts energy team with Dewey hire
Fidelis to provide capacity for new energy MGA
BMS continues to raid Price Forbes in energy team build-out
Viewpoint: Will lessons from the European wind industry be learned by emerging markets in Asia and America?
RKH targets renewables growth with director hire
Miller names Curtin head of energy construction
Price Forbes hires Howell in power team expansion
Lockton appoints Ridge to lead marine and energy reinsurance unit
Downstream energy market looks for profitable growth
Miller boosts energy team with onshore hire
MS Amlin makes Asia hires
Viewpoint: 'Large energy claims bring with them difficult issues and challenges'
Energy market sees ‘first green shoots of recovery’
BMS adds Juul and Force to new energy insurance team
Using drone technology to cap losses in energy sector
Regenerating the energy insurance market

Set Alert for Insurance Day Specialty :: Energy
Cancel
Remove Alert

Are you sure you'd like to remove this alert? You will no longer receive email updates about this topic.

Aviation


Bookmark
  • News

Aviation rates take off

By Lorenzo Spoerry

Market withdrawals and consolidation are driving prices up

International Aviation Renewals

Aviation updates

Focus: Insurers must deal more humanely with aviation disasters
Focus: Capping the cost of light aircraft recovery claims
Focus; Good practice could slash aviation ground losses
Focus: Aerospace infrastructure insurers call end to soft market
Insurance 'can help enable mega-constellation growth'
Aviation rates take off
Nexus acquires aerospace MGA from Castel
UK space plans to create ‘wealth of indigenous business’ for London market
THB grows aviation team with Gould hire
AGCS appoints new North America aviation executive underwriter
Starr Insurance to acquire renewal rights to Aspen’s aviation business
TMK and Biba launch drone insurance scheme
ID Comment: Aviation underwriters will hope market exits will give rates a lift
Aspen plans exit from Lloyd's classes
Aviation rates may rise further: JLT
Space insurers warned on debris collision risks as satellite insured values rocket
Everest Re adds Toulkeridis to lead aerospace reinsurance
Hive Aero swoops on Talbot for class underwriter
China’s PICC joins European space and aviation consortium
Aviation goes live on PPL
JLT hires former Marsh UK aviation boss
Former Cathedral underwriter Bruce Carman launches aviation war MGA
Beazley’s Froese elected to LMA aviation committee
ID Comment: Insurers must take risks to reap rewards of $1bn drone insurance market
'Aviation insurers face a bittersweet 2018'

Set Alert for Insurance Day Specialty :: Aviation
Cancel
Remove Alert

Are you sure you'd like to remove this alert? You will no longer receive email updates about this topic.

Specie


Bookmark
  • Analysis

Focus: Lloyds is branding the specie market for no good reason

Despite being under Lloyd’s microscope, the specie market continues to make acceptable returns. Continued underwriter vigilance will enable the market to maintain that enviable position for the future
Focus Lloyds London

Specie updates

LSM increases specie capacity to $250m
Liberty Specialty Markets expands fine art and specie offering into Germany
Aegis London targets Australian specie business through online platform
Liberty to write fine art and specie from Paris office
Brazilian bandits force cash in transit exposure rethink
Willis Towers Watson appoints cargo and specie head
Howden acquires Singapore broker
Getting down to brass tacks of specie risk exposure
The fine art and specie market is at a tipping point
Insuring fine art on the high seas
Fine art and specie market looks to technology to mitigate the low rating environment
Specie innovation critical to tempt new business to London
Protecting the value of historic art and buildings
Chubb returns stolen Rockwell painting 40 years after theft
XL Catlin receives Monaco licence
Hiscox expects $1bn fine art consortium to 'come to life' in 2017
Bank vault flooding triggers specie claims in France
Fine art and specie market shifts to consortia to overcome rise of broker facilities
Brit launches diamond processing consortium
Hiscox leads $1bn fine art consortium
Standard syndicate expands into more lines of business
Preservation of the specie
JLT shares fall as legal settlement hits earnings
Beazley to double specie line size following XL Catlin hires
JLT settles legal action over Willis specie team

Set Alert for Insurance Day Specialty :: Species
Cancel
Remove Alert

Are you sure you'd like to remove this alert? You will no longer receive email updates about this topic.

Political Risk & Trade Credit


Bookmark
  • Analysis

Protectionism drives US trade credit market expansion

By Rodrigo Amaral

Insurers are expanding capacity for trade credit insurance in the US as global trade tensions are boosting demand for the product and could lead to rate increases in the sector

North America Specialty

Latest Articles

Miller expands credit and political risk team
Marsh launches social unrest cover
Markel expands Philpin role in trade credit team
Chubb promotes Berry to European head of surety
Markel expands US trade credit team
Canopius expands credit and political risk distribution
Trade war rhetoric sparks uptick in requests for cover
Trade credit claims see biggest spike since financial crisis
Basel III threatens to make trade credit cover ‘irrelevant’ for banks
Terrorism cover above and beyond Pool Re's offering
Focus: Re/insurers’ investment strategies are lagging behind requirements
SMEs must adapt to evolving terror threat
Viewpoint: Into the valley of uncertainty for political violence insurers
Risk Foresight: Morena’s López Obrador wins Mexico presidential election
Risk Foresight: Attack on Ethiopia's president Ahmed's rally unlikely to have been assassination bid
Trade credit exposures grow at double rate of premium increase
Risk Foresight: Duque beats Petro in Colombia’s presidential run-off election
Carillion collapse drives record UK trade credit claims bill in Q1
Risk Foresight: Trump and Kim attend history-making summit
ArgoGlobal swoops on Aspen for credit and political risk underwriter
Axa Africa Specialty Risks boosts political risk team with double hire
Risk Foresight: Spain’s new prime minister under pressure
Sompo International completes Lexon acquisition
Risk Foresight: EU seeks to shield states from US’s Iran sanctions
Castel Specialty adds political risk unit

Terrorism


Bookmark
  • Analysis

Charting the new geography of terrorism

Persistent intelligence surveillance and diligent law enforcement have reduced the risk of large-scale, coordinated terrorist attacks. The challenge now for insurers and risk modellers alike is keeping pace with the evolution of the terrorist threat 
Terrorism International

Latest on Terrorism

Viewpoint: Re/insurers must create products that match the realities of contemporary terrorism
Pool Re in discussions with ‘range of investors’ about potential ILS
Charting the new geography of terrorism
UK motor insurers vote to mutualise terror risk
RMS updates terrorism models to acknowledge rise in 'lone wolf' attacks
Aon and Chubb launch Lloyd’s terrorism product
Pool Re CEO calls for 'debate' about chemical attack coverage
Pool Re links up with GC Securities as ILS placement agent
Aon warns inter-state conflict risk highest since the end of Cold War
ILS sector could be a new capital pool for terrorism risk
Liberty Specialty Markets creates Paris-based terrorism role
Pool Re extends retro programme to include cyber terrorism cover
Terrorism underwriters must evolve as threat set to stay high in 2018
'Active shooter' products to grow in London market
Pool Re extends cyber terrorism cover
Liberty swoops on Sompo Canopius for war and terrorism hire
Terrorism insurers widen cover in response to evolving threat
Bessant joins Acappella syndicate 2014
StarStone swoops on Antares for terrorism hire
Improving political violence insurance penetration in the Middle East
Policies must adapt to cover the change in terror threat
First signs of a hardening in the political violence reinsurance market?
Extending non-property damage BI cover into the regions
Standalone market is evolving with the terrorist threat
Not too small to matter: building terrorism resilience for SMEs


Set Alert for Insurance Day Specialty :: Terrorism
Cancel
Remove Alert

Are you sure you'd like to remove this alert? You will no longer receive email updates about this topic.

Advertisement
UsernamePublicRestriction

Register

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use. For high-quality copies or electronic reprints for distribution to colleagues or customers, please call UK support +44 (0)20 3377 3996 / APAC support at +65 6508 2430

Printed By