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A.M. Best Maintains Stable Outlook on Global Reinsurance Segment
A.M. Best has maintained a stable outlook for the global reinsurance segment, citing price increases driven by rising loss cost inflation; reinsurers' enhanced market discipline, including tighter terms and conditions; and growing demand for reinsurance capacity. A.M. Best also noted some negative factors facing reinsurers, however. Read More
Birds of a Hawkish Feather
As he enters his second term, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will face a variety of challenging conditions as he looks to raise interest rates. The Fed and the chairman recently shifted to a more hawkish stance on inflation, signalling a speedier reduction in the Fed's bond purchase program. Read More
InsurTech Forming Captive To Take Risk on Cyber-Insurance Programs
Commercial InsurTech provider Coalition plans to form a captive insurance company to allow it to begin taking risk on its cyber-insurance programs. Coalition said the captive would enhance its ability to manage capacity and long-term growth objectives while providing additional alignment of incentives with the company's customers. Read More
Report Focuses on Litigation Finance as a Social Inflation Driver
With social inflation a growing liability insurance concern, third-party litigation finance is being recognized as a major driver of the trend, a new report suggests. The Swiss Re Institute report suggests that the United States is the center of the world's third-party litigation finance industry. Read More
Concert Group Forms Excess and Surplus Insurer
Recently formed insurance fronting business Concert Group Holdings, Inc., has formed a Montana-domiciled excess and surplus lines insurer, Concert Specialty Insurance Company. Concert Specialty joins Concert Insurance Company, the group's Illinois-domiciled property and casualty operation, as the two companies doing business under the Concert umbrella. Read More