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The brownfield boom.
Elizabeth Keefe reviews the development of the environmental impairment liability market in the US.
Caught over a barrel.
Jeremy Golden assesses the prospects for (re)insurers in a rapidly changing oil market.
Fishers gets ITS.
UK insurance services provider Fishers Group is to acquire specialist engineering loss adjuster IRIS...
Moderation in all things.
Last month saw the first Liberty Re debate take place at the Merchant Taylors' Hall in the City of L...
Promotion for Fiore.
Australian reinsurer Sydney Re has promoted James Fiore to senior vice-president and chief underwrit...
Met Life expands in SE Asia.
US insurer Metropolitan Life has continued its expansion in South-east Asia with a $1bn combined loa...
War risks on land.
Insurance against war risks on land for goods in transit is now available in the London market for t...
Hard selling in the soft market.
US reinsurers continue to perform well, but rates just keep on falling. Alex Beatty reports.
Willis in Italy.
Broker Willis Corroon has acquired a 50% stake in leading Italian broker Gruppo Ital Brokers. Ital B...
Global premiums remain steady.
Global insurance premiums increased by just 1% in real terms in 1996. According to Swiss Re's lat...
Moody's buys Surl.
Rating agency Moody's has bought Lloyd's analyst Syndicate Underwriting Research Limited from Lloyd'...
The climate debate hots up.
A group of (re)insurers is leading the way in international efforts to arrest harmful climate change. Dr Bernd Schanzenbacher reports.
Mixed results for Exel.
Bermudian insurer Exel has reported a 12% rise in net operating income to $96m for the second quarte...
Huge liability claims likely after crash.
Huge liability claims look likely to hit (re)insurers following the crash of a high-speed Inter-City...
S&P ratings unreliable, say P&I managers.
Managers of some protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs are unhappy about the first set of club rating...
Cartograph renamed.
UK catastrophe modeller Cartograph has changed its name to Risk Management Solutions Limited followi...
ILU/Lirma merger shows its colours.
As Reinsurance went to press, members of the Institute of London Underwriters and the London Interna...
PWS Holdings reports rise in profits.
London-based reinsurance broker PWS Holdings reported pre-tax profit up 7% to £0.83m ($1.35m) in the...
Lehman establishes reinsurance arm.
Investment banker Lehman Brothers has set up a reinsurance subsidiary to offer securitisation and st...
New Labour, new market.
This year's Swiss Re Life & Health Insurance Report indicates that UK consumers are taking financial matters into their own hands, says Peter Maynard.
The Christ child cometh.
The climatic phenomenon known as 'El Nino' has received some bad press recently, but although its effects are certainly global, they have yet to be fully understood, says Tony Dowding.
A healthy environment for insurance
Tony Lennon assesses recent developments and trends in UK environmental insurance, following delays by successive governments in defining statutory contamination liability.
Insurers in the slow lane.
Adrian Leonard finds the aggressive European motor market, with its continued soft rates and a decline in proportional treaties, keeping reinsurers in the red.
HartRe in Italy.
Hartford Re is to assume Italian insurer La Fondiaria's property/casualty reinsurance business. In a...