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Fraud squad
The industry has a tough task on its hands when it comes to assessing the honesty of policyholders' claims, says Jonathan Swift.
Are you really ready for regulation?
This month's Post Magazine chief executive round table, sponsored by Accenture, focused on forthcoming Financial Services Authority regulation and sought to gauge the industry's preparedness by posing five key questions to delegates. Lynn Rouse reports.
Commutation protocol launched
The Association of Run-Off Companies in the UK has launched a commutation protocol that aims to help ...
Fadden in shock departure
Top man Jerry Fadden is leaving Bermudian reinsurer Platinum Underwriters just months after the com...
Rebriefs - Results of RAA survey.
Reinsurers in the US had a good start to the year, according to a survey by the Reinsurance Associat...
Time for a change
London needs to apply its innovative thinking to its back-office processes, argues John Benjamin, managing director of Xchanging Ins-sure Services.
Increased safety at sea proves elusive
There were some major marine losses in 2002, but they are not really apparent in London's figures yet. So where did they go, or when are they expected to surface? Adrian Leonard reports.
Reweb - First seen on the Reinsurance website
Endurance Specialty of Bermuda has bought the bulk of Hart Re, the property and casualty reinsurance...
Rebriefs - Aspen declines to comment on reports.
Aspen, the former Wellington Re, has declined to comment on reports that it plans to float on the Ne...
Tailor-made for profit.
Modelling marine portfolios to assess their profitability has helped marine underwriters achieve more positive returns, argues Raj Ahuja of non-life actuarial consultant EMB. The question now is how capital providers can maintain the advances that have…
Change still coming
Two years on from Reinsurance's last survey in London, market attitudes are still coloured by uncertainty. Marc Jones looks at the predictions.
Munich Re shuffles more senior jobs
Munich Re's boardroom shake-up continues with the departure of management board member Clement Boot...
More challenges ahead
Donovan North assesses the impact of Taiwan's first catastrophe bond, regulatory change and the opportunities for Taiwanese insurers to operate in China.
Rebriefs - Tropical Storm Risk launches tropical storm tracker.
Tropical Storm Risk, a consortium of experts led by the UK-based Benfield Hazard Research Centre, ha...
German court approves Gerling sale
The Gerling group said it would finally sell its reinsurance operations to a company controlled by ...
Platform of opportunity
Technology. Some of us are endlessly fascinated by it. The vast majority of us, I suspect, are larg...
Burned by D&O
London got its fingers so severely burned offering directors' and officers' cover that the market has all but disappeared. Adrian Leonard investigates what went wrong with D&O.
Storing up trouble.
The launch of ever-larger container ships with less resistance to rolling, combined with incorrect stowage of loads, is a huge threat for marine underwriters, says Patricia Vowinkel.
A winning hand
Despite recent departures, leading reinsurers are still very keen to do business in London. Adrian Leonard examines the market's major players.
Repeople - Appointment at International Union of Aviation Insurers.
Hans Sandstrom, a senior vice-president at Inter Hannover, has been elected president of the Interna...
Taking control.
Adrian Leonard uncovers the truth behind Catlin's takeover of the International Group of P&I clubs' reinsurance programme.
Cat indexer gets backers
CatiXL, a new company developing catastrophe indices, has signed up four investors. Reinsurance...
Market surges ahead
For the first time in more than a decade, Lloyd's is riding the crest of a wave as its competitors suffer. Robert CB Miller examines this turn in fortunes.
Axis floats in New York
Bermuda-based (re)insurer Axis Capital Holdings planned to sell 13.4 million new common shares in a...