Blog: Don’t under-rate rated

As economic pressure mounts on customers, brokers must beware the temptation to seek out unrated capacity Arc Legal Group's Tim Mullin argues.

There are signs, across the wider insurance market, that unrated paper is slowly creeping back into the sector.

This slow trickle could however accelerate as customers, faced with a mixture of economic uncertainty, inflation and hardening insurance rates put pressure on their brokers for more competitive quotes.

And whilst there is, and always has been a place for unrated paper – particularly where rated insurers don’t have the appetite, flexibility, experience, knowledge, or actuarial ability