The insurance industry is becoming the latest casualty of the oil price slump, with postponements and cancellations of energy projects forcing down premium rates and income in a market that was already crowded. Insurers forecast income could dive by 20 …
Contamination from chemicals is likely to increase the cost to insurers of last month’s blasts in the Chinese port of Tianjin, costs which are already expected to exceed $3 billion, insurance specialists say. While Chinese insurers are likely to bear …
The cost of Superstom Sandy to the global marine market has been put at between $2.5 billion and $3 billion — which effectively wipes out the entire U.S. marine premiums for 2012, according to the annual spring statistics issued by …
