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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
1M ago
Reinsurers may start to view the great white north as an attractive market after the most recent Jan.1 2024 reinsurance renewal, one reinsurer shared at Cat IQ Connect in Toronto. During the Renewals Season Recap discussion, moderator Donna Ince, senior…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
1M ago
Vendors of underwriting models need to be transparent about the models’ limitations so underwriters and actuaries can understand where these limits could come into play, a speaker said last week at the CatIQ Connect conference in Toronto. Every single data…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
1M ago
Canada’s national earthquake early warning system is expected to go live in British Columbia in April followed by Ontario and Quebec this fall, the program manager for the federal government told delegates at CatIQ Connect Wednesday. The system works by…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
1M ago
Momentum from this year’s favourable reinsurance renewal can continue into 2025 if outlying conditions and losses don’t exceed expectations, panellists said during Cat IQ Connect in Toronto. Although it’s too early to make assertions about how the next 1.1 renewal…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
2M ago
Systemic cyber risk remains a concern for capital providers and reinsurers, particularly as more and more businesses look at outsourced cloud-based IT operating models, a cyber underwriter told Canadian Underwriter recently. “A lot of capital providers and reinsurers, they need…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
3M ago
January 1 reinsurance renewals are behind us, and it seems a more stable, predictable property Cat market has materialized, just as industry experts predicted. In Canada, reinsurance renewal pricing varied broadly by buyer, based on overall performance, Gallagher Re in…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
4M ago
Primary insurance carriers can expect for the most part flat to high single-digit premium increases during Jan. 1, 2024, reinsurance renewals, Matt Wolfe, Aon Canada’s president and CEO of Reinsurance Solutions tells Canadian Underwriter. It’s a far cry from the…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
5M ago
Canada’s hard market in reinsurance has some execs wondering if the time is ripe for a new reinsurer to enter the Canadian market. Until Jan. 1, 2023 renewal season, Aon Reinsurance Solutions president and CEO Matt Wolfe said he never…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
5M ago
Canada’s primary property and casualty insurers expect the upcoming Jan. 1, 2024, reinsurance renewal season to be more ‘orderly’ and ‘stable’ than at the same time last year, P&C industry execs told brokers attending last week’s Insurance Brokers Association of…
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Canadian Underwriter » Reinsurance
5M ago
Even though the cyber insurance market is in a much better place now than a few years ago, it still needs an injection of capital to keep up with burgeoning demand, a speaker said during an industry event earlier this…
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