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Big names develop more web systems.
Two leading reinsurers look set to expand the amount of reinsurance traded on-line with two e-commerc...
Best Re plans to sell shares.
Tunis-based Best Re plans to list on the Paris stock exchange to raise $30m. The company intends to ...
Surfing for salvage.
Reinsurers are backing a venture to sell salvage on-line. Eric Alexander takes a look at a new angle on a lucrative business.
Max Re floats for less.
Max Re Capital raised $192m in its initial public offering last month, but the share sale raised les...
Excess proves elusive.
Many reinsurers have withdrawn from the unprofitable global marine market and the hunt for excess of loss cover intensifies. However, Adrian Leonard finds that the market is on the turn.
Clause for concern.
Following last month's consideration of a TV film case, John Butler reviews the applicability of a policy clause.
Secura looks for merger partner.
Loss-making Belgian reinsurer Secura is talking with potential merger partners to boost its capital ...
CNA Re in hunt for buyer.
CNA Re says it has had a positive response from the "select" group of companies it has approached ab...
Uncertainty dogs Equitas.
US courts are divided over whether Equitas is directly liable to Lloyd's policyholders. Peter Chaffetz and Steven Schwartz examine the conflicting decisions.
Big is best for reinsurers.
Larger reinsurers will be the winners in today's tough market according to separate analyses by rati...
New tool finds favour.
Reinsurance trading on-line got off to a slow start but e-commerce is gradually tightening its hold on the market. John Sanders investigates how much reinsurance business is actually being done on-line.
Three reinsurers allowed to have branches in Korea.
GeneralCologne Re and Munich Re have started to write both non-life and life reinsurance from their ...
The devil is in the detail.
In the words of the chairman of Lloyd's, Sax Riley, the Lloyd's results in 1998 were "nothing short of diabolical". Robert CB Miller considers the effects of underwriting incompetence at Lloyd's.
Zurich reveals spin-off detail.
Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) is to reveal details of its proposed disposal of Zurich Re on 6 Septe...
Time to be big and clever.
Our news pages this month might appear at first glance to be obsessed with size. Several of the main ...
Inreon opens Swiss office
Inreon, the internet-based reinsurance trading exchange set up by Munich Re, Swiss Re, Accenture and ...
Talking about a revolution.
GE Frankona Re's chief executive, Bob Dellinger (right), tells Eric Alexander that the sector must face up to coming changes, if only to break away from cyclical underwriting.
ReResults - Second quarter 2001.
Catastrophe losses of $29.3m contributed to a fall in American Re's profit to $8.1m from $22.2m a ye...
New tricks needed.
Life reinsurance may be a boom industry, but, warns David Morgan of CSC, non-life reinsurers keen on a slice of the action may not appreciate what they are letting themselves in for.
Scottish Annuity & Life of Grand Cayman.
Scottish Annuity & Life of Grand Cayman is to acquire World-Wide Reassurance, a wholly owned subsidi...
Europeans seek justice.
As insurance regulators worldwide grapple with the challenges presented by the consolidation, global...
Life reinsurance slumps in Japan
Japan's life reinsurers recorded a 71.2% slump to ¥36bn ($303m) in premiums in 2000, not including pr...
Many unhappy returns.
Failure to improve on their inadequate capital returns will lead to problems for many reinsurers, warns David Fanning.
Full speed ahead.
It might not be long before high-speed container ships are crossing the Atlantic, bringing with them risks that are already making marine insurers nervous. Eric Alexander reports.