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Europa opens treaty office in Dublin.
Europa Re has opened a subsidiary in Dublin to write non-marine treaty reinsurance. Europa Re (Du...
Appointment at ABI.
Bob Scott, group chief executive of CGNU, has succeeded Sandy Leitch, chief executive of Zurich Fina...
Can't get the staff.
Reinsurers are aiming to recruit new blood, but attracting the right sort of graduate and setting up suitable training courses is not easy. Cameron Andrews reports.
Appointment at LPC.
Jane Wallace has been appointed head of IT at the London Processing Centre (LPC), the premiums and c...
Advantage insurance.
Financial guarantee insurers should be making the most of the price advantage over banks that is created by rules on capital. George Sandars reports.
Ace moves.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has revised its outlook on the companies in the Bermuda-based Ace Gr...
The ultimate in run-off.
Adrian Leonard finds finality easier to achieve with Slip, a processing system developed specifically for run-off.
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...