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Carefree not an option.
An ageing global population raises urgent questions about long-term care. Janina Clark hears the UK debate.
Danes open in Tokyo.
Copenhagen Re has opened an office in Tokyo. It is run by John Deane, formerly of Liberty Re and Mer...
Boeing, Swissair to pay damages.
Boeing and the Swissair group are jointly to pay the compensatory damages resulting from the crash o...
China cat for Swiss.
Swiss Re and Beijing Normal University have set up a research centre on natural catastrophe exposure...
Not plain sailing.
Over the last 30 years, and especially over the past five, big changes have swept through the marine market, writes Eric Alexander.
Appointment at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.
Ian Jenkins has been elected senior partner at reinsurance specialist law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert...
Appointment at XL Capital.
James Veghte, executive vice-president of Bermudian reinsurer XL Mid Ocean Re, has moved to head up ...
Appointment at Lloyd's Japan.
Lloyd's Japan has announced the appointment of two non-executive directors, completing its recent bo...
Enhance downgrade.
Enhance Re of New York has had its financial strength rating downgraded by Moody's from 'Aaa' (excep...
A trip down memory lane.
Roy Harris helped to found Reinsurance 30 years ago. It could have been yesterday ...
Mixed fortunes for Aon.
US (re)insurance broker Aon had net income of $151m in its second quarter to the end of June; up 8% ...
Rules for some, rules for others.
Disagreement over jurisdiction lay behind the case of Gan v Tai Ping. John Butler considers the arguments.
How to minimise casualties.
With risks multiplying and litigation on the increase, the threat of major casualty losses is very real. However, a new form of casualty catastrophe reinsurance means help is at hand, insists John Cavanagh.
Partner calls for more discipline.
Many reinsurance companies are undermining the rein-surance market with a lack of "the same determin...
London market unites again.
Max Taylor and Tim Carroll, respective chairmen of Lloyd's and the International Under-writing Assoc...
Lawyers go east.
London-based law firm Cameron McKenna is expanding its (re)insurance activity in Asia through the Si...
Turkey's earthquake.
Firm figures for the losses from the earthquake that hit Turkey on 17 August should be emerging as t...
First on the scene.
Y2K claims are not the sole preserve of experts. Every loss adjuster and claims handler needs to be able to spot Y2K-related losses to know those experts are required. Jonathan Clark, Rosalind Jones and Tim Goodger offer some advice.
Ace merger at Lloyd's.
Syndicates 219, 488 and 960 at Lloyd's were last month due to be merged into syndicate 2488 for the ...
Central co-operation.
Canadian group Co-operators has set up a captive - Co-operators of Canada Reinsurance International ...
Appointment at Employers Re.
David Calhoun has taken over as president and chief executive of General Electric's Employers Re. He...
Into the red?
There are many opportunities for foreign reinsurers in Russia, but Adrian Leonard finds dangers also abound.
One giant leap for Reinsurance.
1969 might be better remembered as the year of the first moonwalk, but it also saw the launch of Reinsurance magazine. Janina Clark reread those early issues.
XL into MKP of NY.
(Re)insurance group XL Capital has bought a minority stake - the percentage and the cost not reveale...