Insurance Research Letter – IRL
Global Insights. Regional Pulse. Industry Intelligence.
Covering the world of insurance since 1966
For nearly 60 years, IRL has helped brokers, underwriters, risk managers, and insurance executives make better decisions across complex domestic and international insurance markets.
Too much of insurance can feel like dogs watching TV—you know something important is happening, but you are not always sure what was said, why it matters, or what should happen next. IRL exists to make the global P&C market understandable, engaging, and genuinely useful.
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Monthly intelligence built for professionals—not headline readers.
Monthly IRL Issues
12 professionally curated issues each year. Global and U.S. P&C market analysis, underwriting trends, London and Lloyd's movement, casualty developments, reinsurance capacity, specialty lines, and regulatory change.
Not headlines. Context. Not noise. Judgment.Country Insurance Guides
Practical country-by-country placement guidance. Compulsory coverages, non-admitted rules, supervision, legislation, admitted market requirements, compliance obligations, and local placement realities. Helps brokers stay compliant—and stay out of trouble.
Regulatory Intelligence
Compliance and market intelligence by country and region. Because international placements fail quietly—usually because someone assumed the rules were the same everywhere.
IRL helps prevent that.Professional Resource Library
Tools professionals actually use. Insurance regulators, supervisors, associations, glossary, country reference tools, travel advisories, time zones, and international market resources.
Working tools—not filler.Editorial Access
Subscribers benefit from direct editorial access shaped by more than 40 years of international brokerage, underwriting, and market experience. Sometimes what matters most is not another article—but a second opinion.
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