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Unionamerica to enter run-off.
UK-based Unionamerica is to cease underwriting operations on 1 January 2001 and go in to run-off, th...
Scor whittles stake.
French reinsurer Scor has reduced its holding in credit insurer Coface from 44% to just 35%. Scor sa...
Reinsurers called to Islam.
Maria Kielmas finds that a lack of reinsurance compliant with Islamic principles is holding back growth in Islamic markets.
P&I cover dries up.
Reinsurance will be difficult to find for both mutual and fixed-premium protection and indemnity insurers, reports Adrian Leonard.
PXRe plans to remain at Lloyd's.
PXRe Managing Agency, the Lloyd's agent owned by troubled reinsurer PXRe, has rejected suggestions t...
Agency rethinks.
Moody's has downgraded its outlook on the respective 'A-' (good) and 'B+' (above average) performanc...
Swiss Re plan its UK headquarters.
Swiss Re is planning to start building its UK headquarters at the end of this year or early next yea...
McGowan new COO.
Broker Herbert Clough has appointed Robert McGowan as president and chief operating officer. Mr McGo...
Buy boosts Gallagher's US reinsurance business.
US broker Arthur J Gallagher has acquired New Jersey-based John P Woods for an undisclosed amount in...
Shelter for Stirling syndicate.
Omega Underwriting Agents has launched a rescue bid for Lloyd's syndicate 529. The syndicate, man...
Chaucer's new book.
Chaucer Holdings has set up Chaucer Consortium Underwriting to manage consortium arrangements for Ll...
Non-life rates set to rise strongly, says Swiss Re.
Swiss Re is benefiting from rate increases in its non-life business and expects rates to rise at lev...
Kingsmead swap.
Corporate capital provider Advent Capital is to acquire Lloyd's-based Kingsmead Underwriting Agency ...
On the move at last?
Will the UK government's response to the Royal Commission report on long-term care finally kick-start sales of insurance products? Keith Sankey canvasses the opinion of reassurers.
Cairnstone rebrands.
Miami-based Cairnstone, an underwriter and medical management company which specialises in reinsuran...
Lucas leaves.
Leslie Lucas, chief executive of Pool Re, the specialist terrorism pool, has retired after 40 years ...
Strike Club to raise rates.
The Strike Club, the specialist marine mutual insurer, has warned its members that premiums for mari...
Judging the lawyers.
The top UK law firms for reinsurance and insurance litigation are revealed in this exclusive extract from the latest edition of The Legal 500.
Reanalysis - Reinsurance rates - Market faces continued low rates,
Even a major catastrophe would not be enough to trigger a significant rise in reinsurance rates, rat...
Sava gets strong local rival.
The new Slovenian reinsurer Triglav Re took one third of the market share from the country's dominan...
International Planetary Explorer.
- A study, commissioned by the British government, of the risks of the earth being hit by asteroids ...
Conventional wisdom.
European law continues to have an effect on reinsurance cases. John Butler considers the issues relating to the Brussels Convention in Group Josi v Universal General.
Floating city makes waves.
Eric Alexander finds marine insurers expecting to have a tough time coping with the demands presented by the proposed Freedom Ship, a huge accommodation vessel.
Good news - no big rises.
It is October and the reinsurance world is talking rates. Will they rise? Will they rise enough? The...