"Teens are the riskiest drivers and the most expensive to insure," said Laura Adams, senior insurance analyst at InsuranceQuotes.
Barrie Cornes, insurance analyst at Panmure Gordon, agreed that insurers were braced for a larger bill.
Colin Devine, an insurance analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, said the life insurers were financially solid.
But to regain the star quality they enjoyed in their early years, they need a new niche .ACE and XL used to be the insurers of the uninsurable," says Mike Smith, an insurance analyst at Bear Stearns.
Roman Cizdyn, insurance analyst at Commerzbank, said: "This is a plum job.
"It's a glass-half-empty announcement," said Alain Kupferschmid, insurance analyst for the Darier Hentsch Bank.
The bridegroom's mother was an insurance analyst for Mutual of New York, an insurance company that was in Syracuse.
[C2.] Insurance Analyst Switches Firms Alice D. Schroeder, an insurance analyst who managed to charm Warren E. Buffett and Maurice Greenberg, has left PaineWebber to join Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
"The company considered him to be a talented insurance executive," said Weston Hicks, an insurance analyst at J. P. Morgan.
"You can't do investment banking on such a tiny scale," said Colin Devine, an insurance analyst at Salomon Smith Barney.
"There is no justification for the difference in rates," said Gavin Magor, a health insurance analyst at TheStreet.com Ratings.
