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Into the breach.
Foreign investment in emerging market utilities can itself create political risk. Maria Kielmas looks at recent problems and considers the need for breach of contract cover.
Polygon goes on hunt for new owner.
The five airlines that own aviation insurer Polygon Insurance of Guernsey are looking for an insurer...
Appointment at Lloyd's.
Lloyd's has appointed Joseph Gunset as general counsel with responsibility for Lloyd's licensing and...
Appointment at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
Lawrence Brandes (left), together with three other former partners of Rosenman & Colin - Clifford Sc...
US east coast under tidal wave threat.
Water trapped under high pressure in the seabed off the New Jersey coast of the US could escape sudd...
Changing face of Japan.
Jeremy Golden finds traditions under threat as deregulation blows hurricane-force winds of change through Japan's (re)insurance markets.
Fighting talk.
Robert Hiscox has been one of the Lloyd's Council's fiercest critics on everything from unlimited liability to underwriting standards. Adrian Leonard finds him as bellicose as ever.
Mariners awash with statistics.
Raj Ahuja and Steve Mathews argue that marine insurers will continue to swim against the tide until they make better use of the data that is readily available to them.
Appointment at Scor.
Henry Klecan has been appointed to take over from Dominique Lavallee as president and chief executiv...
Gothaer positive.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has revised its outlook on Gothaer Re from stable to positive and af...
IUA hits back at S&P claim.
London's company market has hit back at rating agency Standard & Poor's claim that Lloyd's is increa...
RAA's 1999 results.
The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) has reported a combined ratio of 114% for the US proper...
Appointment at Swiss Re New Markets.
Achim Bauer, joint head of global marketing at Swiss Re New Markets (SRNM), has been appointed manag...
Global dynamics.
UK-based actuarial consultant English Matthews Brockman has established a joint-venture company with...
PWS bought by managers.
Shareholders in reinsurance broking group PWS have approved its management's buyout offer (Re, July ...
Lloyd's Aviation sold.
Lloyd's has sold Lloyd's Aviation, its aviation loss adjusting and surveying service, to the Charles...
London plan is imminent.
A report outlining new London market procedures and standards will be released this month, the Inter...
Seeing the bigger picture.
Easily the most interesting remark heard this month was made by a guest at our Lunch Forum. The g...
RenRe's NWP rise.
The net written premiums of RenaissanceRe Holdings of Bermuda totalled $64.8m - 86% up on a year bef...
BAIG flies into US market.
British Aviation Insurance Group (BAIG), the London-based global aerospace (re)insurer, is to enter ...
GE rebranding for ERC Frankona.
ERC Frankona has been re-named GE Frankona Re by US parent Employers Re (ERC). The rebranding, ef...
Finite possibilities.
Jed Rhoads argues that finite reinsurance can offer solutions to companies' risk management problems, whether those companies are well-run and profitable or desperately in need of a helping hand.
US fires spark few losses.
The forest fires raging through many western states of the US are expected to produce few (re)insura...
Facing up to cyber-claims.
In the last of four articles looking at e-commerce, Alan Fisher and Tony Levitt consider the principal features of e-commerce liability and property claims.