A report on the U.S. market insurance has been published by Marsh for their U.S. clients. The very brief Executive Summary is available here

“Intense competition among insurers, increased capacity, and fewer insured catastrophe losses all played key roles in keeping U.S. insurance markets generally stable in 2009—and are poised to do so again in 2010.

The combination helped stave off a widely expected market hardening in 2009, although some specific lines of coverage—D&O for financial institutions, for example—did experience premium rate increases.”

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On Marsh’s main website is a webcast called “The New Reality of Risk – Global insurance markets in 2010” published last week. One can listen to a replay of the webcast by visiting their website