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PwC made liquidator.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed to liquidate the UK assets of French reinsurer Compagnie E...
New Davison division.
Lloyd's broker R.L. Davison is to form a reinsurance division to place motor, marine and non-marine ...
New share valuations shock reinsurers.
A new method for valuing the shares of (re)insurers has produced radically different figures to curr...
Time to put the house in order.
Economic upheaval has uncovered serious flaws in South Korea's insurance industry, reports Jeremy Golden.
Ace looks North.
Ace London, the Lloyd's arm of giant Bermudian (re)insurance group Ace, has recruited Tom Faerovik t...
Striking while the iron's hot.
Tim Carroll is wasting no time in setting an agenda for the International Underwriting Association of London. Janina Clark hears his plans.
Swiss Re in India.
Swiss Re has become the first reinsurer to establish a liaison office in India. The office, in Mumba...
Kasuya for Aon Japan.
Giant broker Aon has appointed Eiji Kasuya to head its operations in Japan. Mr Kasuya was previously...
Ace USA sets up specialist divisions.
Ace is continuing its rapid expansion in the US with the creation of an aviation division and a move...
Names furious as EGM vote fails.
Lloyd's Names have failed in their attempt to block the increased representation of corporate capita...
Reform opens a passage to India.
The ending of the Indian state monopoly in insurance opens up new possibilities, says Har Govind.
Overseas Partners hit by disastrous third quarter investment result.
Losses of $122m on investments plunged Bermudian reinsurer Overseas Partners' net income into the re...
British Insurance Awards.
Are you a reinsurer or reinsurance broker with a success story to tell? Then the British Insurance A...
The tide turns.
Eric Alexander sees signs of improvement in another tough year for marine underwriters.
ABI Y2K database.
The Association of British Insurers is to expand its database of year 2000 compliant companies to i...
Billion dollar drain.
Alex Beatty finds out how insurers and reinsurers are tackling the Sproblem of fraud.
Scor opens in Russia.
French reinsurer Scor has opened an office in Russia to strengthen its operations in Russia and cent...
Life goes to Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has completed its $1.8bn acquisition of US-based Life Re (Re Sept. 1998, p5), making it the...
Third quarter cat losses hit US insurers.
The third worst catastrophe losses ever recorded in the third quarter of a year have hammered the re...
The impact of Yasuda.
John Butler considers how the Court of Appeal's ruling on aggregate extension clauses might affect liability policies.
State and private side by side.
Keith Sankey looks back over the chequered history of private medical insurance in the UK.
Testing time in genetics.
Adrian Leonard finds his way through the moral maze created by the idea of insurers accessing genetic information.
Stockton Re's net income rises to $78m.
Bermudian finite risk reinsurer Stockton Re saw net income rise to $78m in the quarter ending 30 Sep...
CLM enters the ART world.
One of the new breed of Lloyd's integrated vehicles, CLM Insurance Fund, is to invest in insurance-l...