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  • Insured losses from Spanish floods to exceed €1bn

    31 October 2024

    Morningstar DBRS says large claims from the event will undermine the underwriting profitability of Spanish insurance companies

  • Rome unveils tax plans on Italy's banks and insurers to help fund its budget

    18 October 2024

    Giorgia Meloni wants taxes on sectors to contribute about €3.5bn to government's €30bn budget for 2025

  • Strong earnings spur positivity for reinsurers

    29 August 2024

    Firms are prospering from prolonged positive market conditions, according to Fitch Ratings and Morningstar DBRS

  • Insured losses from UK riots to be below £250m

    13 August 2024

    Single claims below £1m will be assumed by local police authorities, Morningstar DBRS said

  • NAIC spells out private letter definitions as insurer volumes boom

    31 July 2024

    New ratings rules could lead to higher RBC charges for US life insurers

  • PE and insurance: perception versus reality

    21 June 2024

    Private equity and alternative asset manager-owned life insurers have been accused of making risky investments and running opaque businesses intent on making a fast buck. The facts may not bear this out, as Sarfraz Thind reports in the first of a two-part article

  • Insurers facing increased exposure to liquidity risk

    30 May 2024

    Supervisory frameworks on liquidity risk in the insurance sector lagging those in other sectors, Morningstar DBRS finds

  • Asset-intensive reinsurance intensively assessed

    09 April 2024

    The NAIC is drawing up proposals to tackle asset-intensive reinsurance as regulators worry about the vast volumes of risk being ceded outside the US. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Baltimore Bridge insured losses could hit $4bn, says Morningstar DBRS

    28 March 2024

    The incident could amount to one of the largest marine insurance losses in history, says Lloyd's chief

  • Insured French riot losses set to be under €1bn

    05 July 2023

    DBRS Morningstar said the losses should be "manageable" for the French insurance industry