The tide is turning for Marine Insurance
Over the past ten years, the marine insurance market has been struggling for its head above water. And for something even worse, premiums declined by 4.1 per cent between 1998 and 1999, marking the third year of decline. Some industry experts, these are the bad debts, the price is fuelling strategies overcapacity, but these experts are optimistic for the future.
With the decline in premiums and benefits, it is essential that the USA Ocean Marine insurers to take measures to ensure the outperformance of damage, after President James Zrebiec near New York-based American Institute of Marine Underwriters. Zrebiec told participants at the annual meeting of the AIMU November last year, said he was confident that companies can survive positive results soon.
A look at the P / C business as a whole, a sign of a turnaround are recognized, such as the commercial market is to observe a rise in interest rates.
“The marine market has somewhat delayed damage market at a turning point and we may be nine months behind as regards prices and general market conditions,” said Richard DeSimone, President of the Global Marine for Saint-Paul. “What we are witnessing is 1 January, a definitive change in the reinsurance market; rates go quite clearly, and what only works on a very important impact on the main [Marine]. ”
So what’s the problem?
“I think the problem we have at this time as the total market is profitability,” said DeSimone. “And this is a big problem, because if we do not have money for our companies must then they are not good reasons to have around us, so it is a very important that each company has read it. ”
Gary Gilbride, Assistant Vice President of the Marine Office of America Corporation, part of the CNA-Maritime, said that the market has no problems per se, but rather that he is in a state of movement. “The prices are too low, but they appear again a few,” Gilbride said. “We are trying for overall prices, and we are achieving some success in this direction.”
After Gilbride, whose specialty is Bluewater hull and machinery, producers and buyers to understand that prices across the board, as a general rule, do not know where they should be. “The fundamental difference is the fact that this understanding is categorical. I believe that things are heading in a better direction, as they were before, “he explained.
Paul Greenaway, brokers Birmingham, Ala.-based wholesale brokers Rikard Cooney & Curtin, described the market as the sea in “revolt.” “Twelve months ago, the whole market was soft, prices have been spiralling down about 15 to 20 per cent per annum on the line,” said Green Away. “But we saw that some changes during the last year.
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