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Names force EGM over council representation.
A group of 600 Names has forced Lloyd's to call an extraordinary general meeting to vote on the futu...
IPC Re income halved.
The impact of Hurricane Georges has more than halved net income at Bermudian property catastrophe re...
New US bank law stalls.
Financial services modernisation in the US is expected to suffer following the shock defeat of Repub...
CNA Re to grow business in Europe.
US reinsurer CNA Re is on the look-out for possible European acquisitions. Tim Madden, head of CN...
Munich Re.
Munich Re has increased its dividend for 1997-98 to DM 1.80 per share, up from DM 1.70. The company ...
Ace expansion boosts profits.
Giant Bermudian (re)insurance group Ace saw net income rise by more than 11% to $560m, or $2.96 per ...
Lloyd's agent banned.
Lloyd's regulators have banned Cuthbert Heath Underwriting, the former managing agent of syndicate 4...
JLT merges units.
Lloyd's broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson is to merge its London market insurance and reinsurance operat...
Reinsurers stem the tide.
Faced with pressures from inside and outside the market, Eric Alexander finds marine reinsurers fighting back.
All together now.
Mention the word 'merger' in the (re)insurance world these days and many will flinch. "Oh no, not an...
Copenhagen Re in the market for acquisitions.
The acquisition of a company or portfolio is high on Copenhagen Re's list of priorities, chief execu...
Brown for Lloyd's.
Lloyd's has appointed former World Insurance Network chief executive Tom Brown to take charge of its...
General Re buys into Lloyd's future.
US giant General Re has entered the Lloyd's market for the first time with the acquisition of D.P. M...
Marsh & CcLennan Companies.
Broking giant Marsh & McLennan Companies boosted its net income by a third to $186m in the third qua...
PwC Asia head.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the professional services supplier, has appointed Aubrey Whitear as leader o...
Don't worry, be happy.
As many of us head into the festive season, it is particularly striking that, despite having very li...
Chasing Asia's professionals.
Professional indemnity insurers targeting Asia have met with mixed success. Jeremy Golden reports.
Marine profits torpedoed and sinking fast.
Just three years ago the marine sector at Lloyd's was top of the class, now underwriters are struggling to break even. Alex Beatty reports.
Balancing both sets of cover.
Does an aggregate extension clause have a role to play when the terms of inward and outward covers do not match? John Butler investigates.
Aon Corporation.
Aon Corporation, the US holding company that includes giant broker Aon Group, as well as consulting ...
Willis goes private.
Broker Willis Corroon has returned to private ownership as the last stage in its acquisition by a co...
Climate change talks "inconclusive".
The Buenos Aires round of talks on climate change held last month were largely inconclusive, accordi...
Capital Re examines credit card losses.
Capital Re could face heavy losses following allegations that a credit card company with which it wa...