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Billion dollar drain.
Alex Beatty finds out how insurers and reinsurers are tackling the Sproblem of fraud.
ABI Y2K database.
The Association of British Insurers is to expand its database of year 2000 compliant companies to i...
The tide turns.
Eric Alexander sees signs of improvement in another tough year for marine underwriters.
British Insurance Awards.
Are you a reinsurer or reinsurance broker with a success story to tell? Then the British Insurance A...
Overseas Partners hit by disastrous third quarter investment result.
Losses of $122m on investments plunged Bermudian reinsurer Overseas Partners' net income into the re...
Reform opens a passage to India.
The ending of the Indian state monopoly in insurance opens up new possibilities, says Har Govind.
Names furious as EGM vote fails.
Lloyd's Names have failed in their attempt to block the increased representation of corporate capita...
Ace USA sets up specialist divisions.
Ace is continuing its rapid expansion in the US with the creation of an aviation division and a move...
Kasuya for Aon Japan.
Giant broker Aon has appointed Eiji Kasuya to head its operations in Japan. Mr Kasuya was previously...
Swiss Re in India.
Swiss Re has become the first reinsurer to establish a liaison office in India. The office, in Mumba...
Striking while the iron's hot.
Tim Carroll is wasting no time in setting an agenda for the International Underwriting Association of London. Janina Clark hears his plans.
Ace looks North.
Ace London, the Lloyd's arm of giant Bermudian (re)insurance group Ace, has recruited Tom Faerovik t...
Time to put the house in order.
Economic upheaval has uncovered serious flaws in South Korea's insurance industry, reports Jeremy Golden.
Reinsurers warned of more hurricanes.
Last year's dramatic Atlantic hurricane season looks set to be repeated this year, according to hurr...
New share valuations shock reinsurers.
A new method for valuing the shares of (re)insurers has produced radically different figures to curr...
New Davison division.
Lloyd's broker R.L. Davison is to form a reinsurance division to place motor, marine and non-marine ...
PwC made liquidator.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed to liquidate the UK assets of French reinsurer Compagnie E...
Archard to PXRE.
US reinsurer PXRE has appointed Paul Archard as managing director of the group's Lloyd's agent, PXRE...
A finger on the pulse.
Fraudulent claims are an ever present threat for life companies. Keith Sankey looks at efforts to stay ahead of the game.
A feeling of deja vu?
Last year Reinsurance carried a review with a view to the future. This year Janina Clark looks back to see whether its predictions were correct.
When Irish eyes are smiling.
Dublin's growth as a (re)insurance centre has given the Irish plenty to be happy about, says Andrew Halsall.
Fairfax snaps up Tig in $842m deal.
Troubled US reinsurer Tig Re has been swallowed by acquisitive Canadian financial services group Fai...
A higher profile needed.
Congratulations are in order for Swiss Re, which was the only financial services company in the top ...
Wren announces 86% jump in pre-tax profit.
Lloyd's insurer Wren has announced an 86% jump in pre-tax profit to £3.2m ($5.3m) in the six months ...