Competition tempers US property softening slowdown

With Q1 earnings calls and RIMS 2017 looming, executive management
at carriers and brokers can expect plenty of questions over the
trajectory of pricing line-by-line on their portfolios of business.
And property - the insurance class that has been softest for
longest - is likely to be seen as a bellwether for where the
broader P&C market is heading.
Some primary carriers might have seen evidence of slower
softening on property cat reinsurance at 1 January and 1 April as...