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		<title>Reinsurers Resilient Despite Catastrophes, Economic Uncertainty, Says A.M. Best</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/04/24/244576.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International & Reinsurance News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AM Best]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[In a special report A.M. Best summed up the financial position of the global reinsurance industry as &#8220;resilient&#8221; in light of &#8220;the volatile economic conditions and the frequent and severe loss events of 2011.&#8221; Best pointed out that the only &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cooper Gay Swett &#038; Crawford Reports 2011 Earnings of $344 Million</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/04/05/242244.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Cooper Gay Swett &#38; Crawford (CGSC), the global wholesale and reinsurance brokerage group, has released strong results for the year ending 31 December 2011, reporting revenues of $344 million and EBITDA of $69 million with and net cash earnings of &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lloyd&#8217;s Posts $822 Million Overall Loss for 2011</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/03/28/241027.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles E. Boyle]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The loss, announced today by Lloyd&#8217;s of London, shows just how severe the second costliest year for catastrophes on record for the insurance industry actually was. Lloyd&#8217;s announced a loss of £516 million ($822 million) for 2011 &#8211; a large, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Catastrophe Frequency, Tornadoes Test Insurers in U.S.: A.M. Best</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/03/15/239537.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[National News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[According to A.M. Best Co., the frequency of catastrophe weather events represents the &#8220;new normal&#8221; for the insurance industry. &#8220;The insurance industry continues to be tested as catastrophic weather events have recently become more common and more severe,&#8221; Best said &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Munich Re Confirms 2011 Profit at $937 Mn; Forecasts $3.3 Bn in 2012</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/03/13/239179.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International & Reinsurance News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Munich Re&#8217;s official results largely confirm earlier estimates, made at the beginning of February. The world&#8217;s largest reinsurer, however, hopes to do a good deal better in 2012 than it did last year. It&#8217;s forecasting a profit of around €2.5 &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Geneva Association Report: 2011 an &#8216;Annus Horribilis&#8217; for Insurance Industry</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/03/09/238855.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles E. Boyle]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The latest report from the Geneva Association , No. 5 in the current series &#8211; Extreme events and insurance: 2011 annus horribilis -, describes the global impact of the major 2011 natural catastrophes, and analyzes the role and mechanisms of &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Swiss Re Reports $2.6 Billion 2011 Net Income Despite Nat Cats</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/02/23/236982.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles E. Boyle]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Swiss Re reported net income of $2.6 billion for the full-year 2011, despite what it described as &#8220;an exceptional natural catastrophe burden&#8221; – a strong performance compared to the $863 million reported for 2010. Its combined ratio for the year &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Earnings Report: Montpelier Re</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/02/13/235224.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Q4 2011 Q4 2010 Gross premiums written &#8212;- $91.7 mn $102.3 mn Full year &#8211; 2011 2010 $725.5 mn $720.0 mn Net premiums earned &#8212;&#8212;- $148.3 mn $162.2 mnn Full year – 2011 2010 $622.7 mn $625.4 mn Net income/loss &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Earnings Reports: Everest Re, XL Group</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/02/10/235000.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Munich Re Sees $933 Million 2011 Profit Despite Cat Losses</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/02/02/233991.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles E. Boyle]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Munich Re&#8217;s estimated earnings figures for 2011 confirm a net profit from its three sectors – reinsurance, primary and health –of €710 million [$933 million], compared to a net profit of €2.43 billion [$3.2 billion] in 2010. Fourth quarter profits &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Earnings Reports: ACE Limited</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/02/01/233599.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles E. Boyle]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International & Reinsurance News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Q4 2011 Q4 2010 Gross premiums written $4.864bn $4.865 bn Full year &#8211; 2011 2010 $20.831 bn $19.511 bn Net premiums earned &#8212;- $3.831 bn $3.572 bn Full year – 2011 2010 $15.387 bn $13.504 bn Net income &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; $750 &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S&#038;P: Excess Capital, Strong ERM Give Reinsurers 2011 Cat Loss Cushion</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/01/26/232861.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International & Reinsurance News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ratings]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s Ratings Services announced that it is &#8220;maintaining its stable outlook on the global reinsurance sector despite the near-record level of catastrophe losses in 2011,&#8221; as it doesn&#8217;t expect &#8220;a bias in the direction of any rating actions &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2011 Piracy Attacks Totaled 439; 275 off Somalia: ICC/IMB Report</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/01/19/231822.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International & Reinsurance News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[armed guards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Africa]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[According to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau&#8217;s (IMB) global piracy report attacks in East and West Africa accounted for the majority of world attacks in 2011, signaling a rising trend. Of the 439 attacks reported to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AXIS Estimates Thai Flood Losses at $48 Million; Updates 2011 Loss Estimates</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/01/18/231636.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International & Reinsurance News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that the net financial impact of the severe flooding in Thailand on the Company&#8217;s fourth quarter results is expected to be $48 million &#8211; net of reinsurance, taxes and reinstatement premiums. AXIS also updated &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Aon Benfield 2011 Catastrophe Study: $107 Bn Insured Losses; $435 Bn Economic</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/01/10/230630.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles E. Boyle]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[International & Reinsurance News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp, has issued its &#8220;Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report,&#8221; which aggregates and analyses the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during 2011, which concludes that the impact of &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurers Worry 2012 Will Top 2011 for Record Weather Disasters</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/12/28/228850.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[From floods that crippled countries, to mega cyclones, huge blizzards, killer tornadoes to famine-inducing droughts, 2011 has been another record-breaker for bad weather. While it is too early to predict what 2012 will be like, insurers and weather prediction agencies &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Swiss Re Estimates 2011 Economic Cat Loss at $350 Bn; Insured Loss $108 Bn</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/12/15/227534.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Swiss Re describes 2011 as the &#8220;year with the highest catastrophe-related economic losses in history, at $350 billion.&#8221; It could have been the most costly year ever for the insurance industry, if Japan had been more fully insured. The figures &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>11/11/11: What&#8217;s In a Number?</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2011/11/10/223253.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[November 11, 2011 might hold special significance for some, since the date can also be written 11/11/11. When the calendar and its numbers align, some people try to ascribe mystical significance, according to a Wake Forest University professor. Eric Carlson, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lloyd&#8217;s Reports Billion Dollar First Half Loss Due to Catastrophes</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/09/21/216694.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[As had been more or less predicted, Lloyd&#8217;s posted a £697 million [$1.094 billion] pre-tax loss for the first six months of 2011, compared to an overall profit of £628 million [$985.6 million] as of June 30, 2010. The report &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Swiss Re Report Estimates 2011 First 6 Months Cat Losses at $70 Billion</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/09/09/214175.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Preliminary estimates from Swiss Re&#8217;s newly released sigma report indicate that &#8220;total insured losses for the global insurance industry from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters reached an estimated $70 billion in the first half year of 2011.&#8221; The report also &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hurricane Irene &#8211; 1st of the Season &#8211; Could Hit Miami</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/08/22/211757.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Irene strengthened into a hurricane as it came ashore over Puerto Rico, reaching category 1, according to the most recent bulletin, released at 5:00 AM AST, from the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The center of Hurricane Irene &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Forecasts for 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season Largely Unchanged</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/07/28/208365.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Forecasters at Weather Services International stuck with their earlier prediction that the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season would bring 15 tropical storms, with eight of those growing into hurricanes. Four of those were expected to strengthen into &#8220;major&#8221; hurricanes of Category &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NOAA Forecasts &#8216;Above Normal&#8217; Atlantic Hurricane Season</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/05/20/199361.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 09:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be &#8220;above normal&#8221;, spawning six to 10 hurricanes of which around half could become major, the U.S. government&#8217;s weather agency forecast Thursday. However, as the 2010 season showed &#8211; it was very active but &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>First Quarter Earnings Reports: Arch Capital, RenaissanceRe</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;Above Average&#8217; 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2011/04/07/193558.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be above average with nine hurricanes, five of them major, with a more than 70 percent chance that at least one of them will hit the U.S. coastline, Colorado State University forecasters predicted Wednesday. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Marsh Sees Soft Commercial Insurance Market Continuing</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2011/01/31/182661.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Another report indicates that soft commercial insurance market conditions that persisted throughout the U.S. in 2010 will continue into 2011. Key commercial insurance market drivers from 2009—including intense competition among insurers, abundant capacity, and relatively few insured catastrophe losses—continued through &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PartnerRe Provides January 2011 Non-Life Renewal Data</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/01/28/182287.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced that during the January 1, 2011 treaty renewal season it &#8220;expects to write and bind approximately $1.8 billion of Non-Life treaty premium. On a constant foreign exchange basis, this represents a decline of 16 percent from &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FERMA VP Spells Out Challenges for 2011</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/01/21/181310.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Julia Graham, vice-president of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) examined some of the most intractable issues the insurance industry, and its clients, will be facing in the coming year. Here are her conclusions: &#8212; In the context &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reinsurance Prices Should Remain Soft in 2011: Reports</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/01/11/180073.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Two new reports deepened the gloomy outlook for global reinsurers Monday, with fresh evidence of weak pricing and little hope for a turnaround for the sector in the near future. Reinsurers are mired in a prolonged slump as an excess &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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