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PUWER 98 advice.
Royal & SunAlliance has launched a service to help industry cope with the Provision and Use of Work ...
AIRMIC to step up lobbying.
Mark Butterworth, the new chairman of the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers, is spearheadin...
Big bike selection.
Holman Marketing has introduced its Holman Bike Plus facility nationwide. Bike Plus enables brokers ...
Countdown to crackdown.
New US export regulations have serious implications for satellite (re)insurers. Dennis Burnett explains the changes.
Holocaust commission makes headway on claims holdups.
The international commission set up to settle the dispute between Holocaust survivors and insurers o...
Low flying rates keep ARTists' heads down.
Eric Alexander assesses the likely impact of alternative risk transfer on aviation insurers.
A tale of mixed fortunes.
Robin Ball reports on the continuing debate over the duty of reinsurers to follow the fortunes of their cedants.
China cracks down on brokers under new rules.
The Chinese government's new insurance regulator, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), ...
A constellation of risks.
Last month Reinsurance reported the news from Generali's space insurance conference in Florence. Here Alex Beatty takes a closer look at some issues affecting the market.
The legacy of Pan Atlantic.
John Butler outlines the application of a monumental ruling on non-disclosure and misrepresentation.
First corporate cat risk securitisation.
US investment bank Goldman Sachs has placed what it claims is the first securitisation of catastroph...
Reinsurers on awards shortlist.
Seven companies have overcome tough competition to make it onto the shortlists for the two reinsuran...
RAA officers.
John Smithson has been elected chairman of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA). He is chair...
Lloyd's axes four units in restructuring.
Nick Prettejohn, Lloyd's chief executive designate, has restructured the Corporation of Lloyd's in a...
Southern discomfort.
Swiss Re Southern Africa's Lenz Keel talks to Jeremy Golden about difficult conditions, increasing non-proportional business and regional expansion.
Unum to dispose of reinsurance arm.
US disability insurer Unum is to dispose of its reinsurance businesses in order to concentrate on it...
LaSalle tries to ward off more blows.
Bermudian reinsurer LaSalle Re has run into more difficulties following its decision in April to boo...
No profits down under as ReAC posts losses.
Sydney-based reinsurer Reinsurance Australia Corp. (ReAC) reported severe underwriting losses of A$1...
Chubb joins RAA.
New Jersey-based reinsurer Chubb Re has joined the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), bringin...
Arig Re in Malaysia.
Arig Re, the reinsurance operation of the Arab Insurance Group, has opened an East Asia regional off...
Mariners hope for a lifeboat.
Strong competition and continuing consolidation meant there was little news to cheer marine underwri...
Nac Re acquired by XL Capital.
Nac Re, the US reinsurer that is being acquired by Bermudian insurance group XL Capital, reported a ...
And then the sky fell in.
The experts claim to be confident that the millennium bug has been eradicated from aviation systems, but does that really mean there will be no Y2K claims? Adrian Leonard investigates.
Open market, open minds.
Post-deregulation Japanese players are having to develop new products to combat the competition from international firms. Jeremy Golden reports.