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Advent moves on Kingsmead
Advent Capital (Holdings) is to acquire Lloyd's managing agent Kingsmead Underwriting Agency for an u...
Groupama restructures commercial team
Groupama Insurances has restructured its commercial insurance senior head office team with Maggie Lis...
CSC to take over Mynd
Computer services giant CSC is to acquire US rival and insurance specialist Mynd, which recently chan...
New Eureko to hit acquisition trail
Achmea of the Netherlands and Banco Comercial Portugues are to merge their insurance businesses with ...
OPL to buy Reliance Re
Bermuda-based reinsurer Overseas Partners (OPL) is to buy Reliance Re of the US for an undisclosed su...
Swiss Re buys stake in China Insurance International
Swiss Re has paid HK$ 120m ($15m) for a 9.9% stake in China Insurance International Holdings. China...
New MD at Le Mans.
Le Mans Re has appointed Jerome Coggia (pictured) as its managing director. Formerly a director o...
ERC's one-stop shop.
US-based Employers Re (ERC) is to rationalise its Canadian property and casualty operations to make ...
Cigna quits reinsurance.
US-based Cigna Corporation is to quit the reinsurance market, having sold its US individual and grou...
ING rebrands.
Dutch insurance group ING is to rebrand as ING Re its reinsurance operations in the US, the Netherla...
Seoul mates.
US-based Employers Re has set up a representative office in Seoul and has appointed Mr Young-Soo Shi...
Millers warning to Lloyd's.
Lloyd's broker Miller Insurance has warned that Lloyd's decision to open the market to non-Lloyd's b...
Hannover Re boosted by program income.
Hannover Re has reported gross premium income for 1999 up almost 50% on the previous year. Howeve...
British Insurance Award winners.
The winners of this year's British Insurance Awards were presented with their awards last month at a...
Global reinsurance - More mergers forecast among reinsurers.
The global reinsurance market should see the start of rate recovery this year, but it faces major st...
Amlin approved.
Amlin has received approval from Lloyd's to merge its syndicates 902 and 1141 with syndicate 2001. T...
Three's a crowd.
John Butler reviews the implications for reinsurers of the UK's latest legislation on the rights of third parties.
BLG to open in China.
London-based law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is to open an office in Shanghai. The company was gra...
Worst year for Munich Re.
1999 was the worst year for natural catastrophe losses in Munich Re's 120-year history, the group ha...
Getting together.
Consolidating arbitrations may be the most efficient way to solve a multi-party dispute, but can arbitrations legally be consolidated? Peter Chaffetz (pictured) and Steven Schwartz investigate.
Lime St. leaders.
For the first time, Reinsurance has ranked the leading reinsurance syndicates at Lloyd's. Adrian Leonard reports on the state of the reinsurance market at Lloyd's and profiles five of the top six syndicates.
PWS may go private.
Managers at reinsurance broking group PWS are considering a buyout of the company. Group managing...
French reinsurers' profits plummet.
French reinsurers saw their net result fall by almost two thirds to Fr 970m ($141m) in 1999 from Fr ...
Tightrope walker.
As chief executive of Lloyd's, Nick Prettejohn has to tread a fine line to keep all sectors of the market happy. He tells Janina Clark about his balancing act.