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Zurich cuts 100 from commercial operation
Zurich Commercial is to cut 100 UK jobs across its Cheltenham and Fareham, Hampshire offices under pl...
Appointment at Element Re.
Element Re, the XL Capital subsidiary formed last September to provide weather risk management produ...
View from the inside.
Jin Jie-wei has worked in the Shanghai branch of the People's Insurance Company of China since 1982 ...
Prime numbers add up.
Robert Muir-Wood describes the thinking behind Munich Re's record securitisation of 'super-catastrophe' risks.
News in brief.
Zurich Financial Services has restructured its North American property and casualty business, as par...
Munich Re pushes for farm cover.
As the foot and mouth disease crisis continues to grow in the UK, Munich Re has revealed that it has...
Appointment at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Ed Muhl, the former New York superintendent of insurance, has joined PricewaterhouseCoopers' insuran...
News in brief.
Axa Corporate Solutions, the reinsurance and large insurance risks division of France's Axa Group, m...
John Charman quits Ace International.
John Charman has quit his position as president and chief executive of Ace International because of ...
Storm forecasts look favourable.
David Simmons says that the storm prediction consortium TropicalStormRisk can generate real business benefits for (re)insurers.
News in brief.
Hannover Re has expanded its US program business with the acquisition of business and an underwritin...
A capital strategy.
Swiss Re New Markets has a wide-ranging remit. Adrian Leonard asks chief executive Erwin Zimmermann to nail it down.
On the up.
Hong Kong's (re)insurers have been hit badly by the Asian financial crisis but hope is in sight, says Adrian Leonard.
British Insurance Awards - Are you an award winner?
There are few ways in which you can raise the profile of your organisation and boost the morale of y...
Appointment at Lincoln Re.
Jay Biehl (pictured), chief actuary for reinsurance life operations at the US reinsurer Lincoln Re, ...
News in brief from Generali's International Space Conference.
An angry Dr Boris Antoniuk, director general and chief executive of the Russian Satellite Communicat...
News in brief.
Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries General Re and Berkshire Hathaway Re recorded pre-tax underwriting l...
Lloyd's escapes ban on US claims.
A clause in a US bankruptcy reform bill that would have hampered Lloyd's attempts to recover debts ...
News in brief from Generali's International Space Conference.
Insurance capacity for space risks is falling, according to Benito Pagnanelli, deputy general manage...
Dublin cracks down on rogue reinsurers.
Dublin's insurance supervisory office is promising to move swiftly to eliminate rogue reinsurers and...
News in brief.
Paisner & Co. is to merge with fellow London law firm Berwin Leighton to form Berwin Leighton Paisne...
Cedants in search of security.
Reinsurers are increasingly asked to post security in disputes. Peter Chaffetz and Steven Schwartz consider the attitude of courts and arbitration panels to pre-answer security.
News in brief.
American Re, part of the Munich Re Group, made a net loss of $64.4m in 2000, down from a loss of $10...
News in brief.
ESG Re of Bermuda made a net loss of $61.3m last year, up from a loss of $42m in 1999, on gross prem...