RSA’s (RSA) efforts to improve underwriting in its commercial insurance business caused the group to miss earnings expectations during the first half of 2019, after £37m in restructuring costs dragged down pre-tax profits. As such, a 70 per cent surge in underwriting profit could still be seen as a disappointment, as the insurer re-wrote, re-priced or even let certain commercial lines lapse.
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