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Appointment at Standard Life Healthcare
Standard Life Healthcare has made Bob Watts its new commercialdirector. Mr Watts was previously cust...
Appointment at The Bollington Group
The Bollington Group has taken Phil Gee as its new managing director.Mr Gee joins the group from Wal...
Appointment at GE Commercial Insurance
GE Employers Reinsurance's (ERC) subsidiary GE Commercial Insurance has appointed Brian Jones as cla...
Appointment at Lloyd's
Iain Saville has been appointed the first head of business process reform at Lloyd's. His responsibi...
Munich Re's rights issue
Munich Re expects to raise EUR3.8bn in a new rights issue, hoping to create a stronger capital base ...
Typhoon season below average?
The number of typhoons that will hit the region around Australia will be below average for the 2003/...
Appointment at XL America
XL America, a subsidiary of XL Capital, has appointed Dennis Kane to the post of executive vice-pres...
Appointment at XL Re
Dieter Kohl has been appointed senior vice-president and continental European casualty manager at XL...
World Cup risk analysis
Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has carried out a risk analysis for the securitisation covering the ...
Reformer moves into Lloyd's
Lloyd's has given Iain Saville the job of ensuring that the market modernises its processes. Will he succeed?
Appointment at Clyde & Co
Law firm Clyde & Co has recruited Ed Cowen as senior insurance underwriter at the company, joining C...
US Q3 nat cat losses soar
US third quarter 2003 losses from natural catastrophes soared by 300% when compared to the same peri...
Gerling boosts equity base
Gerling Property & Casualty Insurance has pumped EUR150m into its equity base, raising its equity to...
Appointment at Arch Insurance
Arch Insurance, a division of Arch Capital Group, has appointed Norman Jones as vice-president, comm...
Appointment at GE Employer's Reinsurance
GE Employer's Reinsurance (ERC) has announced that David Bassi has been appointed global property an...
Hitting out against the hearsay
In an exclusive interview, Reinsurance gets the Swiss Re response to the rumours that it has been delaying claims payments
GM farmers being failed
Farmers who grow genetically modified (GM) crops are failing to get any insurance cover, claims the ...
Appointment at Ace
Paul Medini has been appointed chief accounting officer of Bermuda-based Ace, effective immediately....
Appointment at Convergys EMEA
Jean-Herve Jenn has been appointed president of Convergys EMEA information management. Mr Jenn was p...
WTC blow for Silverstein
A US federal court has announced that the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre (WTC) w...
Appointment at Aon Re Global
Aon Re Global has announced a new line-up for its accident, health and life reinsurance team. Ellswo...
Appointment at The Federation of European Risk Management Associations
Thierry Van Santen has been re-elected as president of the Federation of European Risk Management As...
Appointment at Comite Europeen des Assurances
Patricia Plas is the new director for economics and finance at the Comite Europeen des Assurances (C...
Enter the hedge funds
Do the new Hefcore products signal the beginning of a revolution in the reinsurance market?