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Scor restructures

Scor plans to scale back its underwriting in the US and Bermuda and in unprofitable lines by 10%, o...

Appointment at FFSA

The French Federation of Insurance Companies (FFSA) has created a committee to find a replacement f...

UK revisits key legal issues

The UK courts tackled recurring issues such as aggregation and jurisdiction again in 2002, but some decisions increased uncertainty in areas of (re)insurance law. Dorothy Cory-Wright of law firm DJ Freeman reports.

Premium growth slows

A new report from Swiss Re shows just how hard the world's insurers were hit by claims and stock market turmoil in 2001. Ulrike Birkmaier and Camille Codoni crunch the numbers.

After the deluge

The floods that hit central Europe in August obliterated all the profit reinsurers had garnered from the Czech Republic since liberalisation. Adrian Leonard looks at the current state of the market.

US grapples with WTC

Issues from 11 September 2001 dominated the US legal scene in 2002 but courts reached other significant decisions. Michael Knoerzer, Larry Schiffer, Gordon Hwang and Eileen Kennelly of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae go behind the headlines.

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