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Best's Market Segment Report: Reinsurers' Returns Exceed Cost of Capital Despite Softening Market
Helen Andersen, industry analyst, AM Best. "The measures have allowed reinsurers to weather the increased frequency and severity of secondary perils." Other report takeaways ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 12, 2026
Best’s Market Segment Report: Reinsurers’ Returns Exceed Cost of Capital Despite Softening Market
Helen Andersen, industry analyst, AM Best. "The measures have allowed reinsurers to weather the increased frequency and severity of secondary perils." Other report takeaways ...
Source: Press Releases   Date: August 12, 2026
Best's Special Report: Insurers Exceed Cost of Capital Across Segments, Despite Varying Challenges
Despite another year of elevated catastrophe losses, U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurers generated high investment returns and were able to exceed their cost of capital in 2024, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 28, 2025
Best's Special Report: Insurers Exceed Cost of Capital Across Segments, Despite Varying Challenges
Despite another year of elevated catastrophe losses, U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurers generated high investment returns and were able to exceed their cost of capital in 2024, ...
Source: Press Releases   Date: April 28, 2025
III's Leonard: Insurers Aim to Balance Affordability, Solvency
Michel Leonard, chief economist and data scientist, Insurance Information Institute, acknowledged concerns about rising premiums while emphasizing insurers' responsibility to ...
Source: AM Best TV   Date: November 18, 2024
AM Best: Hard Market Not Caused by a Cat Event, but by Disciplined Market Participants
Greg Carter, managing director, analytics, AM Best, said reinsurers are refocusing on traditional role of balance sheet protection rather than on smoothing earnings or managing ...
Source: AM Best TV   Date: November 7, 2023
Lancashire’s Maloney: Most Business Classes Still Attracting Positive Rates
Alex Maloney, CEO, Lancashire Group. Maloney spoke with AM Best TV at Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo.
Source: AM Best TV   Date: September 11, 2023
 Market Segment Report: Market Segment Outlook: Spain Non-Life Insurance
AM Best is maintaining its Negative outlook for the Spanish non-life insurance segment.
Source: Market Segment Reports   Date: May 12, 2023
Evaluating Risk in the Evolving Cyber Market/A Day at the Breach
https://bestsreview.ambest.com/edition/2023/february/index.html#page=17
Source: Best's Review   Date: February 1, 2023
 Special Report: Notional Value of Derivatives Exceeds $3 Trillion
Potential exposure grows at slower pace than notional value.
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Source: Special Reports   Date: December 15, 2021
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Climate, Environmental Risks Dominate World Economic Forum’s Agenda
World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2020. The annual report "points to a clear need for a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigating risk at a time when the world cannot wait ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 15, 2020
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NAIC Presents First Peek at Group Capital Calculation Field Test Findings
Lou Felice, solvency and capital policy adviser. Of those, staffers discussed 14 submissions from those companies, he said. The goal, he said, is to complete the initial round of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 9, 2019
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AIR EVP: Industry’s Typhoon Hit Ranges From $8 Billion to $16 Billion
Typhoon Hagibis, which made landfall in Japan on Oct. 12, caused insured losses that could reach $16 billion, said Rob Newbold, executive vice president for catastrophe risk ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 31, 2019
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Field Testing for NAIC Group Calculation Tool Continuing
Calculation tool began May 10 with more than 30 U.S.-based firms, including property/casualty, life, and health insurers, the NAIC said in a statement. Results of the testing will ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 24, 2019
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AM Best Director of Research: Expanding Scope of D&O Risks Requires Domain Expertise
Supreme Court decisions in terms of Cyan vs. Beaver County, that has allowed the proliferation of these lawsuits at the state level. These have all added to the complexities in ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 21, 2019
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 Market Segment Report: No Slowdown in Asbestos and Environmental Claims
We are maintaining our $100 billion net ultimate loss estimate for asbestos but raising it $4 billion for environmental, as sites are found to be more toxic than originally thought...
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Source: Market Segment Reports   Date: November 28, 2018
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 Special Report: The Last 25 Years – A Review
Twenty-five years ago, we launched our annual Review & Preview event, where we provide a look back at the prior year and a look ahead at insurance industry trends we see developing...
Source: Special Reports   Date: March 5, 2018
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Author: Don't Lose Perspective in Reinsuring 'Acts of God'
... That was seen as controversial at the time. Now that's pretty much the standard practice for any major insurance company and even some of the smaller regional types of insurance ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 15, 2015
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 BestWeek - May 4, 2015 Edition
Although the current market environment has several challenges, the chief executive officer of W.R. Berkley Corp. said there are niche opportunities that open up briefly, and the c...
Source: BestWeek   Date: May 4, 2015
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A.M. Best AVP: Illinois Workers' Comp Reform May Not Resolve Judicial Woes
Commission and replacing them with arbitrators appointed by the governor. Those arbitrators, who would be required to be licensed attorneys, would have to be confirmed by the state ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 6, 2011
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