News
Ren Re and Overseas.
Bermudian reinsurers Overseas Partners and Renaissance Re have gone into partnership to underwrite p...
ALM chief.
Anthony Young is to join the Association of Lloyd's Members next month as chief executive. He was pr...
Wrapping up the loose ends.
Schemes of arrangement have overcome many supposed obstacles to become a way of winding up solvent run-offs, says Ipe Jacob.
Paying for inattention.
In the light of Aneco Re v Johnson & Higgins, John Butler considers a broker's liability for breach of duty.
Heath and Lambert.
The Heath Group, the world's sixth largest reinsurance broker, has made a £1.45 ($2.32) per share ca...
Home or away?
Onshore or offshore is no longer the main consideration when choosing a domicile. Cameron Andrews looks at trends in locating captives.
Marine moves.
Reliance National Insurance (Europe) has relocated its London-based marine hull and cargo division f...
No holds barred.
Far from being dented by the soft market and alternative forms of risk financing, growth in captives is being fuelled by new types of business and fresh approaches. Tony Dowding reports.
Internet launch for Scor.
French reinsurer Scor has launched a new internet-based information service, Astre, for evaluating a...
Bavarian Re in tax move.
Swiss Re is moving the ownership of Bavarian Re of Germany and an Irish subsidiary into the European...
Names choose limited liability.
Lloyd's Names are increasingly converting to limited liability, suggesting that they plan to continu...
Aon uses LORS.
Aon has become the first broker to use Lloyd's Outward Reinsurance Scheme (LORS) to settle a claim w...
Terra Nova (Bermuda) pays dividend.
Terra Nova (Bermuda) paid a quarterly dividend of $0.06 per share on 27 December 1999 to owners of s...
Ace creates rent-a-captive.
Ace Bermuda has set up a new rent-a-captive company headed by its business development manager Roger...
Ace to pay quarterly dividend.
Ace is to pay a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per ordinary share on 14 January to anyone holding share...
RAA admits brokers.
The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) has voted to allow reinsurance brokers as affiliated me...
Generali reviewed.
Rating agency AM Best is reviewing its A (excellent) rating of the US branch of Generali following t...
Hutter quits Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has lost the world's most senior female reinsurer - Heidi Hutter - as a result of the merge...
One of a kind.
Lloyd's may only have one captive so far, but it is adamant that its unique advantages mean that more will soon follow. David Fanning reports.
US p&c surplus slumps.
Falling net income and mounting capital losses caused a dramatic slump in the income of the US prope...
Back for more.
The famed complexity of life in Italy is reflected in its reinsurance market - and foreign companies joining in has made it even more complicated. Adrian Leonard reports.
Overexposed?
Christine Gomes explains why the directors and officers of captive insurers should make sure of the extent of their professional liability cover.
Third for Hannover.
Hannover Re has completed a third securitisation of life and health reinsurance business worth EUR50...
New look for a new century.
Welcome to the new-look Reinsurance. Not for us a one-off issue to mark the new millennium, instead ...