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Stockton Re's net income rises to $78m.
Bermudian finite risk reinsurer Stockton Re saw net income rise to $78m in the quarter ending 30 Sep...
Testing time in genetics.
Adrian Leonard finds his way through the moral maze created by the idea of insurers accessing genetic information.
State and private side by side.
Keith Sankey looks back over the chequered history of private medical insurance in the UK.
The impact of Yasuda.
John Butler considers how the Court of Appeal's ruling on aggregate extension clauses might affect liability policies.
Demographics create a case for private provision.
Life and health business in developed markets continues to grow rapidly among the ageing populations of the world's leading markets.
Confusion arises out of diversity.
A mistake over jurisdictions led to a waste of 16 years and millions of dollars.
Third quarter cat losses hit US insurers.
The third worst catastrophe losses ever recorded in the third quarter of a year have hammered the re...
Riders on the storm.
Larissa Knepper analyses the effects on Europe's life insurers of the recent problems in the world's capital markets.
Life goes to Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has completed its $1.8bn acquisition of US-based Life Re (Re Sept. 1998, p5), making it the...
Scor opens in Russia.
French reinsurer Scor has opened an office in Russia to strengthen its operations in Russia and cent...
Mutre seeks out French health market.
A new joint-stock professional reinsurer has been quietly formed in France over the past few months ...
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.