The primary casualty insurance market, as well as umbrella and excess liability markets, remained competitive throughout 2009. Competition was driven by addi…

The directors and officers liability (D&O) insurance market was sharply divided throughout 2009.  Clients with attractive risk profiles ex…

The property insurance marketplace has stabilized during the past year, primarily due to the relatively benign hurricane season along the Atlantic and Gulf c…

Generally in 2009, industrial aid and commercial aircraft risks continued to see insurance rate reductions based on the low number of claims and insurance ma…

Despite a challenging economic environment in 2009, the number of captive domiciles remained stable. New territories promoted themselves as captive …

There was much talk of a hard insurance market at the beginning of 2009, and rates saw modest increases during the first half of the year. By midyear, howeve…

The number of insurers offering environmental insurance continued to grow in 2009, leading to a significant increase—at least 25 percent—in capacity in the e…

Although marine hull insurers sought to increase rates wherever possible, significant increases were not achieved due to tremendous overcapacity for the most…

The global economic downturn will continue to affect the political risk insurance market in 2010 in terms of pricing, product demand, capacity, and underwrit…

Although 2009 will go down as a profitable year for sureties, it was not as profitable as the preceding four years. Surety underwriters expect a significant …

In the face of the recession, demand for trade credit insurance—long a staple in European insurance programs—skyrocketed in the United States over the past t…