News
New Davison division.
Lloyd's broker R.L. Davison is to form a reinsurance division to place motor, marine and non-marine ...
PwC made liquidator.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed to liquidate the UK assets of French reinsurer Compagnie E...
Archard to PXRE.
US reinsurer PXRE has appointed Paul Archard as managing director of the group's Lloyd's agent, PXRE...
A finger on the pulse.
Fraudulent claims are an ever present threat for life companies. Keith Sankey looks at efforts to stay ahead of the game.
A feeling of deja vu?
Last year Reinsurance carried a review with a view to the future. This year Janina Clark looks back to see whether its predictions were correct.
When Irish eyes are smiling.
Dublin's growth as a (re)insurance centre has given the Irish plenty to be happy about, says Andrew Halsall.
Fairfax snaps up Tig in $842m deal.
Troubled US reinsurer Tig Re has been swallowed by acquisitive Canadian financial services group Fai...
A higher profile needed.
Congratulations are in order for Swiss Re, which was the only financial services company in the top ...
Wren announces 86% jump in pre-tax profit.
Lloyd's insurer Wren has announced an 86% jump in pre-tax profit to £3.2m ($5.3m) in the six months ...
Reinsurers win Svenska case.
Around 70 reinsurers have finally won their long-running dispute with bankrupt Swedish credit insure...
Looking to the long term.
The UK's Royal Commission on long-term care will report later this month. Tracy Hall and Peter Barnett look at what it might say.
Ockham takes last spread fund.
The last of Lloyd's pure investment trusts is to disappear following the takeover of New London Capi...
New NMA chairman.
The Lloyd's Underwriters' Non-Marine Association has elected Bill Rendall as chairman for 1999, succ...
FSA consults on future Lloyd's regulation.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK's new super-regulator, will make policyholder protect...
Lloyd's broker banned.
Michael Radford, a former director of Hogg Insurance Brokers, has been banned from the Lloyd's marke...
SBJ goes private after MBO.
The management of London market broker Steel Burrill Jones is to take the company private in a manag...
Don't give up the day job.
Now that, for many of us, the festivities are over, it is back to the realities of the market. La...
Moody's downgrades three Lloyd's syndicates.
Rating agency Moody's has downgraded three Lloyd's syndicates in its latest quarterly review of synd...
P&I cat costs fall again.
For the fifth year in succession, the world's shipowners are to benefit from a significant reduction...
Nordic firms raise doubts at Moody's.
Rating agency Moody's has given good insurance financial strength ratings to two Scandinavian reinsu...
Profit 2000 talks.
Solutions for the business challenges facing the insurance and financial services industry will be o...
Appointments at Hamilton Barr.
Travel insurance specialist Hamilton Barr has made two new appointments to its sales team. Sarah Hil...
Lucky few buck the no-growth trend of '98.
Almost half of insurance companies did not grow at all last year, according to the latest Plimsoll P...
Rugby sponsors force England climbdown.
Financial services companies which have invested millions of pounds in Rugby Union had their say in ...