Marsh’s numbers show what a soft market looks like from the broker’s side
How Marsh compares to the rest of the sector Whether this pattern is Marsh-specific or sector-wide isn’t fully clear yet,…
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Casualty is the one line bucking the soft market – but only in one country
Marsh’s Q2 2026 Global Insurance Market Index put global casualty rates up 2% for the quarter, the only major product…
Agency acquisitions hit seven-year low as M&A market keeps contracting
Steve Germundson, a partner at OPTIS, frames it as a structural handoff rather than a market simply cooling off: the…
The $23 billion inflection point: How America’s fire insurance market rewrote the rules
REFERENCES AND SOURCES [1] NAIC Exhibit of Premiums and Losses (Statutory Page 14), LINE_NO 1 (Fire), 2019–2024, all…
World Cup final puts $1 billion event insurance market in focus
Parametric adoption and its trade-off Event organizers are increasingly turning to parametric insurance as a complement to traditional cancellation structures.…
2026 RPS US property market outlook: Navigating the E&S buyer’s market
The US Excess and Surplus (E&S) property market has entered one of its most buyer-favorable cycles in years. With premiums…
Liability keeps buyers on edge as commercial market softens
Liability is the fault line running through the US commercial insurance market in mid-2026. Most lines have softened, but social…
E&S market growth outlook | Insurance Business
[00:00:00] Shanna Sweeney: The defining characteristic of today’s market is that capacity is increasing faster than loss, costs are improving. …
‘The market is behaving as it should’: Correcting the record on war risk cover in the gulf
The mechanism behind the headlines The source of the confusion is a contractual provision called the notice of cancellation –…
Navigating PBM Reform: Regulatory Changes, Market Shifts, and Practical Guidance for ERISA Fiduciaries | Verrill
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (“PBM”) arrangements have long relied on rebates with limited transparency into true drug costs. Recent regulatory and…