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Internet launch for Scor.
French reinsurer Scor has launched a new internet-based information service, Astre, for evaluating a...
Bavarian Re in tax move.
Swiss Re is moving the ownership of Bavarian Re of Germany and an Irish subsidiary into the European...
Names choose limited liability.
Lloyd's Names are increasingly converting to limited liability, suggesting that they plan to continu...
Aon uses LORS.
Aon has become the first broker to use Lloyd's Outward Reinsurance Scheme (LORS) to settle a claim w...
Terra Nova (Bermuda) pays dividend.
Terra Nova (Bermuda) paid a quarterly dividend of $0.06 per share on 27 December 1999 to owners of s...
Ace creates rent-a-captive.
Ace Bermuda has set up a new rent-a-captive company headed by its business development manager Roger...
Ace to pay quarterly dividend.
Ace is to pay a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per ordinary share on 14 January to anyone holding share...
RAA admits brokers.
The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) has voted to allow reinsurance brokers as affiliated me...
Generali reviewed.
Rating agency AM Best is reviewing its A (excellent) rating of the US branch of Generali following t...
Hutter quits Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has lost the world's most senior female reinsurer - Heidi Hutter - as a result of the merge...
One of a kind.
Lloyd's may only have one captive so far, but it is adamant that its unique advantages mean that more will soon follow. David Fanning reports.
US p&c surplus slumps.
Falling net income and mounting capital losses caused a dramatic slump in the income of the US prope...
Back for more.
The famed complexity of life in Italy is reflected in its reinsurance market - and foreign companies joining in has made it even more complicated. Adrian Leonard reports.
Overexposed?
Christine Gomes explains why the directors and officers of captive insurers should make sure of the extent of their professional liability cover.
Third for Hannover.
Hannover Re has completed a third securitisation of life and health reinsurance business worth EUR50...
New look for a new century.
Welcome to the new-look Reinsurance. Not for us a one-off issue to mark the new millennium, instead ...
Arig hit by UK office's losses.
Arab Insurance Group (Arig) clocked up a $41.6m reinsurance underwriting loss in the nine months to ...
Benfield Greig buys US broker Bates Turner.
UK reinsurance broker Benfield Greig was expected to buy US reinsurance broker Bates Turner Internat...
PartnerRe pays dividend.
PartnerRe paid a third-quarter dividend of $0.25 per common share on 1 December 1999. It made a $39....
Zurich's Asian base.
Zurich Re has opened an office in Malaysia's offshore financial services centre on Labuan. The branc...
Brit sees lack of retrocession lift prices in difficult market.
A "significant contraction" in the amount of retrocessional cover is pushing prices up, said the chi...
LaSalle Re makes a loss.
LaSalle Re made a $5.7m loss in the year to 30 September 1999 compared with net income of $65.2m in ...
Equitas reinsurance payments double.
Lloyd's run-off company Equitas nearly doubled its payments of reinsurers' claims to £454m ($727m) i...
Ahlmann at Blanch.
Former chief executive of Employers Re Kaj Ahlmann (pictured) has joined broker EW Blanch Holdings a...