UK insurers pass PRA stress test

The UK general insurance industry was found to be
"resilient" in the Prudential Regulation Authority
(PRA)'s market-wide stress tests.
At an aggregate level, general insurers in the PRA's sample
were resilient to the stress tests, which were set last year, with
only a handful of insurers thought likely to breach their solvency
capital requirements.
The PRA took the 26 largest general insurers, including
Lloyd's syndicates, and asked them to run five market-wide
stress tests, each set at a 1-in-2