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Transatlantic Poles US-based.
Transatlantic Re has opened an office in Warsaw. Transatlantic Polska, based at the Warsaw Financial...
Japanese P&C profit warning.
Liberalisation in the Japanese property and casualty (P&C) market has put the long-term profitabilit...
German life in Asia.
Hannover Re is to write life and health business in Malaysia and Hong Kong. The German reinsurer has...
Insurance for the dot.com generation.
The keys to successful e-commerce are uninterrupted access and customer and investor confidence. In a series of four articles, Alan Fisher and Belinda Saddington explore the opportunities those needs offer insurers.
Atzenweiler for CNA.
Henry Atzenweiler is to head US reinsurer CNA Re's continental European operations - both facultativ...
Renewals stay flat.
If the reinsurance market is returning to health, it is doing so at a snail's pace - at least in ter...
New Lloyd's deputy.
The managing director of the PXRe managing agency, Paul Archard (pictured), has been elected deputy ...
Scor singled out as acquisition target.
Leading French reinsurer Scor has been named as one of three European insurance company stocks most ...
Canadian compromise.
The Montreal Convention on airline liability was agreed last May and could be ratified later this year. Catherine West and Peter Macara offer a handy reference guide to its provisions.
Zurich in Puerto Rico.
Zurich Re has been granted a licence to write all lines of facultative and treaty reinsurance in Pue...
In search of excellence.
Are you responsible for the reinsurance initiative of the year? Could your company be the internat...
COO for Odyssey Re.
Roland Jackson has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer of Odyssey Re Group. He ...
ProVention seeks cure.
(Re)insurers are to play a central role in a new international partnership designed to reduce the hu...
Preparing for lift-off.
In his first-ever interview, veteran Lloyd's space underwriter Simon Spinney tells Adrian Leonard of his planned relaunch.
Best foot forward.
Reinsurance's Lunch Forum on rehabilitation, sponsored by Swiss Re Life & Health, highlighted just how much work UK insurers need to do to catch up with best practice in other countries. Janina Clark reports.
Willis buys Latin.
UK-based broker Willis has bought controlling interests in firms in Mexico and Venezuela. It has acq...
IPC Re closes London office.
IPCRe of Bermuda has closed its London-based European representative office, IPCRe Services, with th...
Axa Re US forms two subsidiaries.
Axa Re US has set up two subsidiaries, Axa Re Property & Casualty Insurance and Axa Re America Insur...
Change to Mynd.
Insurance software and service provider, Policy Management Systems (PMSC) is to change its name to M...
American Re fights block.
American Re has filed a suit against the Pennsylvania insurance department over its blocking of the ...
Superior Employers.
AM Best has assigned a financial strength rating of 'A ' (superior) to the Employers Re Group, inclu...
Fasten your seatbelts.
As the numbers of passengers, flights and accidents increase, Eric Alexander considers the higher risks that share the ride with more premiums.
In the eye of the storm.
After a volatile year in 1998 the millennium ended in comparative calm for space insurers, but Cameron Andrews finds forecasts for a solar maximum could mean another stormy season ahead.
Euro storms hit results.
Insured losses from windstorms Lothar and Martin, which tore through continental Europe last Decembe...