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Riley joins CNA.
Stephen Riley, the former managing director of Swiss Re UK, has replaced Tim Madden as managing dire...
Reasons to be cheerful.
Every cloud has a silver lining and, if you look hard enough, you can find something positive in eve...
Rhine Re crosses Atlantic.
Rhine Re is to establish a property casualty operation in the US with the purchase of Equus Re. E...
Ready to make a mark in London.
Wurttembergische Versicherung's Alan Howell plans to become a major player in the London market. John Sanders hears how.
Great Dane.
Recent start-up Danish Re (Re, October 1999, p14) wrote its first risk through its Lloyd's syndicate...
Breaking with tradition.
Dirk Lohmann tells Adrian Leonard why Zurich Re will not be a conventional reinsurer in a few years' time.
Irene costs $100m.
Insured property losses from Hurricane Irene are expected to reach $100m, according to the Insurance...
Time for action.
It is no good putting it off any longer. Any (re)insurers serious about the Internet and e-commerce ...
Axa Global Risks and Axa Re face merger.
Axa Re and Axa Global Risks have announced plans for a structural review that could see the two unit...
Web winners.
Lloyd's syndicate Beazley has won reinsurance broker RJ Carvill's fifth annual Best Insurance Compan...
Ace plays the winning card for Capital Re.
Ace has won its battle with XL Capital for control of financial guarantee reinsurer Capital Re (Rein...
Ace in nuclear cover deal.
Ace Bermuda Insurance has announced an agreement with Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited (NEIL) of t...
Turkey's earthquake estimate below $50m.
Early estimates suggest that insured losses from the earthquake that hit Turkey's Duzce region on 13...
PI at Crowe.
Lloyd's insurer Crowe is to start writing professional indemnity insurance and reinsurance from 1 Ja...
Clued up on e-commerce.
Fear is the main factor holding back the inevitable move to e-commerce in (re)insurance. Janina Clark reports.
Trying to play on home turf.
Laura Zimmitti examines conflicting decisions on whether US policyholders can sue Equitas in US courts.
Swiss Re launches electronic exchange.
Swiss Re began trading reinsurance cover on the Internet late last month with a week-long auction of...
Tokio Marine moves.
Tokio Marine Global Re (TMG Re) in Dublin is to become the reinsurance centre of its parent, non-lif...
Korea reinsures more abroad.
The outflow of reinsurance from South Korea to foreign insurers has soared this year, according to t...
Rocking reinsurer.
Copenhagen Re celebrated 25 years in the London market last month with a party for 450 guests. Inste...
West side story.
Gerling Global Re of America is to set up a casualty treaty underwriting operation at its casualty f...
French reinsurers face resistance.
Adrian Leonard finds soft markets at home and abroad creating problems for France's reinsurers.
In search of the truth.
In his third article* on the Weavers pool litigation, John Butler considers the question of misrepresentation.
Few rate increases on the horizon.
The end of October saw the last annual pilgrimage of insurers and reinsurers to Baden-Baden before t...