News
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...
Fewer trades and static prices.
This year's auction season suggests that Lloyd's is facing something of a watershed, with the corpor...
French floods trigger cat fund.
The floods that hit south-western France last month have been officially declared a natural disaster...
Japan aims to up quake cover.
Japanese insurers are lobbying the government to help increase the take-up of domestic household ear...
Britannia's rules.
UK LEGAL REVIEW [ QQ As the new millennium approaches, the legal landscape affecting the insuranc...
Slow to change in San Diego.
Janina Clark found few signs of improvement in the US reinsurance market at the NAII's annual meeting.
Scor cuts US property fac.
French reinsurer Scor has closed two offices in the US to rationalise its property facultative opera...