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Back to basics.
It seems to be time for insurers and reinsurers to reassess the products they offer and the services...
Stay on the right track, IUMI urges.
Any substantial increase in marine rates is unlikely before mid-2000 and could take even longer, acc...
Appointment at SCPIE Companies.
Timothy Rivers, former managing director and a member of the US operating committee of Guy Carpenter...
Appointment at Benfield Greig.
Reinsurance intermediary Benfield Greig Group has announced the appointment of Bill Staple to the bo...
An unlikely harvest.
How can hi-tech Japan be home to a massive excess of loss programme for agriculture? Jeremy Golden investigates.
Africa for Kiln.
Lloyd's underwriter Kiln has set up a South African subsidiary in Johannesburg, reinforcing its 35-y...
Gloom predicted as underwriters rush in.
Lloyd's open years of account are due to deliver swelling losses, ratings agencies and analysts are ...
Erratum: Standard & Poor's.
Five companies were omitted from Standard & Poor's ranking of 1998's top 125 companies in the August...
Safer earthquake-proof buildings.
New research by engineers from the University of Cambridge could lead to the construction of safer, ...
Europe's Goliaths under siege.
The liberalisation of the German market - the birthplace of many world-class reinsurers - has stripped it of its comfort zone. Adrian Leonard reports.
Appointment at Wellington Underwriting.
Wellington Underwriting has appointed Mark Cravens as vice-president, risk management, responsible f...
Eastern promise.
Privatisation and deregulation will heighten competition in the Middle East's markets over the next five years, says David Fanning.
Capital Re dividend.
Shareholders of Capital Re received a quarterly dividend of 4 cents a share at the end of September....
XL time switch.
Bermudian (re)insurance group XL Capital is to change its financial year to run to the end of the ca...
Eastern IT.
Lloyd's consortium Central & Eastern European Reinsurance Services (CERES) has established a joint v...
Appointment at Thomas Miller.
The new hull insurance syndicate formed by mutual insurance management company Thomas Miller and rei...
Brazilian hold-up.
Following the opening of Zurich Re's new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the firm now has to wait for n...
Appointment at International Insurance Society.
International Insurance Society, a New York-based non-profit educational organisation of executives,...
Web weather.
In an alliance with WeatherData, broker and risk management provider E.W. Blanch is to launch a web-...
Shift to excess of loss will halve reinsurance.
The global reinsurance market could be halved by the trend for cedants to move away from quota share...
CLASS tested at Lloyd's.
In a further attempt by the International Underwriting Association of London (IUA) and Lloyd's to ha...
New bill for bankruptcy.
Lisa Dorr examines the implications for non-US (re)insurers of proposed amendments to the US Bankruptcy Code.
Disasters waiting to happen.
Insufficient catastrophe reinsurance cover is being bought in many markets, despite overcapacity. Ulrich Schweizer and Maria-Elisabeth Fischer summarise the findings of Swiss Re's latest Catastrophe Market Research Project (CAMARES).
Watch for warnings.
Market trends become magnified in the reinsurance world. This was a truth brought home sharply at l...