Financial lines, inland marine and environmental liability classes added to group’s US excess and surplus lines platform

New line will focus on complex US healthcare professional liability risks, including hospitals and allied health providers

Former Guy Carpenter Bermuda chief executive joins reinsurance broking joint venture

Eric Joost will spearhead insurtech’s expansion into the US wholesale market, where other tech firms mostly operate in the retail insurance space

Intermediary platform continues to build-out workers’ compensation expertise with purchase of Associated Specialty Insurance Agency

Kevin Webb will build transportation-focused binder business at the Lloyd’s broker

Industry veteran will support Miller’s reinsurance and retrocession growth proposition in Bermuda

New branch office will write facultative and specialty treaty reinsurance

Growing appetite for casualty and MGA-focused sidecars should support continued investor demand, experts say

US investment group acquires Bermuda-based re/insurer for $2.1bn

Delay in start-up and contingent business interruption covers are becoming trickier to obtain as projects become more complex and elements such as on-site power plants are introduced

Hedge fund reinsurer drops 10% as Bermuda-based re/insurer SiriusPoint falls 9% in torrid week for insurance and reinsurance stocks

Artificial intelligence can enable wholesale brokers to service small books of business, which would otherwise be uneconomical, says chief executive of newly launched broker Novella

Kinetic Insurance Services will write complementary portfolio of business and provide access to ‘new and emerging markets’

Becerra has called for rate freeze, while Kim proposes public catastrophe insurance programme

Insurers and their clients will need to treat political risk as a permanent feature of the operating environment, warns WTW’s Sam Wilkin