DATASORA

Aon confirms $17bn for USI. KKR exits. Sicard to run the middle-market platform. Close targeted Q4. This is the tape going into Monte Carlo.

RVS 5–9 Sept. First Monte Carlo of the combined Sompo + Aspen franchise. Counterparties will want a single view on cat, casualty retro, and the capital-markets sidecar.

Gallagher Re just stood up a Digital Risk Practice — AI liability, data centers, cyber, digital engineering. Brokers are productizing tech risk the same way they productized cyber in 2018.

Sompo International reinsurance revenue +92% to $1.55bn in 1Q’26. That is the Aspen print showing up in the P&L, not a slide.

Definitive agreement to acquire Service Insurance Companies — a monoline WC specialist in the SME / GA channel. Brad Davis stays. This is the U.S. workers’ compensation flagship.

Mid-year tape: 785 U.S. brokerage deals, 476 of them P&C. Carriers did 18. The buy side is still distribution.

Howden US is still the litigation overlay on every broker conversation. 500+ hires, suits from Marsh, Aon, WTW, Brown & Brown, Alliant. Placement continuity is the underwriting question.

If your builders-risk limit was set on 2024 steel prices, you are underinsured. Tariffs took construction goods to a 40-year high. Endorse values now, not at the loss.