Reinsurance

Insurers and reinsurers will be forced to trim exposures or come up with more capital this year because of "dramatic" changes in catastrophe models and rating agency requirements, an insurance company

Mr. Thaler admitted that this was unusual advice for a broker to deliver. He said the message for brokers was a by-product of his concern that business will be driven out of the market, never to retur

Net written premium declined about 6 percent for the quarter, coming in at $6.6 billion. The drop did not come as a surprise to analysts, who have seen reinsurers grow wary of taking on too much

The move comes in the aftermath of companies such as American International Group Inc. being hit with civil fraud actions for improperly accounting for transactions that authorities said were listed a

As the National Association of Insurance Commissioners heats up efforts to restructure reinsurance regulation, ceding companies have formed their own interested parties group to advocate their unique

This would have been a blockbuster deal, representing the combination of the fourth and fifth largest property-casualty insurers in the United States based on net written premium, and the uncommon

Record 2005 disaster claims is far from the worst possible scenario, Hartwig

o Continued uncertainty related to PXRE's future viability and business direction as the company continues to explore strategic alternatives. Fitch believes such actions often signal a distressed situ