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Re - Rates - Cautious optimism.
The signs are good. Underwriting losses have been reported for the last quarter. Companies have with...
St Paul Re targets health reinsurance.
St Paul Re has formed a unit to write health treaty reinsurance outside the US, focusing on managed ...
SAFR still superior.
Rating agency A.M. Best has again rated SAFR PartnerRe of Paris and its Canadian office 'A+' (superi...
Typhoon Olga.
Typhoon Olga - shown as yellow spirals moving over South Korea on 1 August - was tracked from its bi...
Mutual merger.
Three American mutual insurers - Allendale, Arkwright and Protection - and their jointly-owned Facto...
Down, but not out.
Insurers are finding that unemployment is not bad news for everyone, reports Keith Sankey.
Twenty-twenty vision.
Twenty years ago, Andrew Drysdale, managing director of Andrew Drysdale Ltd, wrote of life, the universe and the underwriting cycle. His forthright and entertaining views still have relevance today.
Monte Carlo or bust.
After 43 years, the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous is still a 'must' in the reinsurance calendar. Janina Clark looks back at its history.
Appointment at Thomas Miller.
Mark Carter has moved from mutual insurance management company Thomas Miller's Hong Kong office to b...
Refocus - Le Mans Re - XL takes stake in French firm.
Bermuda's XL Capital has made a further foray into continental Europe by paying $95.75m for 49% of F...
HartRe grows in Europe.
HartRe is expanding in Europe and moving its marine operations from its Hartford, Connecticut base i...
Controversy surrounds GIO Re collapse.
Recent catastrophes have claimed a reinsurance victim - GIO Re of Australia, which has stopped under...
Swedes go Asian.
Sirius International of Sweden, part of the ABB group, has opened a reinsurance office in Singapore ...
Transatlantic cheer.
There are continuing signs of hardening rates in the US in medical malpractice, professional liabili...
Web trader casts net.
London-based Benfield Greig Interactive, an Internet services company that builds interactive tradin...
Appointment at Bermuda.
Jeremy Cox (above) has been appointed Bermuda's Registrar of Companies following Kymn Astwood's move...
Equitas ups collection from reinsurers.
Equitas, the company set up by Lloyd's to reinsure and run off its pre-1993 liabilities, increased r...
Adjuster of perceptions.
CILA president Paul May is on a mission to improve the standing of loss adjusters. Janina Clark heard his plans.
Syndicate sale.
Greenwich Insurance is to buy Lloyd's syndicates 947 and 994 from Chartwell Managing Agents and merg...
Appointment at Janson Green.
Three former Cigna International employees are joining Lloyd's agency Janson Green, a subsidiary of ...
Live wires.
Treating run-off companies as 'live' improves brokers' profits and ensures companies are not sidelined, argues Leslie-Ann Giovnilli.
Re drop for Axa.
Axa of France saw its reinsurance income in the first half of 1999 fall 19.3% to Fr 6.4bn ($1.03bn) ...
Beefed-up Chiltington.
(Re)insurance consultancy Chiltington International of London has responded to better insurance regu...
Appointment at Sydney Re.
Next month, Andreas Thiele takes over from Greg O'Neill as general manager of Sydney Re. Mr Thiele j...