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Settling the matter.
Matthew Allen explains why the 1996 Arbitration Act has proved largely successful.
US pollution law in a mess.
There is no relief in sight for (re)insurers from claims for clean-up costs under Superfund, reports Valerie Fogleman.
Ace buys into more of Lloyd's.
Bermudian insurance group Ace has continued its expansion at Lloyd's with the acquisition of Tarquin...
Mutuelles du Mans.
Jean-Luc Bourgault has become managing director of Mutuelles du Mans Reassurance. Mr Bourgault has b...
Lloyd's chief placates worried Names.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor has reassured Names that the Lloyd's Council has no plans to scrap the a...
Liberty Re holds lively debate.
Liberty Re's John Engestrom chaired a lively debate in the City of London last month. The motion 'Th...
REANALYSIS - INDIA - Insurers wait for an opening in India.
Foreign insurers keen to be allowed to write business in India were remaining optimistic about their...
Building on a base of success.
Bermuda's Premier, Minister of Finance and Registrar of Companies talk to Janina Clark about the island's future.
Bradstock announces drop in profits.
Insurance and reinsurance broker Bradstock has announced a drop in pre-tax profits from £3.7m in the...
Lloyd's and the disunited states.
US trust fund requirements for Lloyd's will be reduced if regulators can reach agreement, reports Robin Ball.
Europe seeks clean integration.
William Rodger and Justin Nimmo assess the changing legal framework for environmental liability insurance in Europe.
Calm before the storms.
The Caribbean will escape serious hurricane activity this year, but not the soft market. David Renwick reports.
All systems go until year 2000.
With the 'millennium bomb' timed to explode in just 18 months, most (re)insurers are now well aware ...
Buffett buys.
General Re General Re, the largest US reinsurer, has been bought by billionaire investor Warren Buff...
Hannover Re profits from Skandia acquisition.
German reinsurance group Hannover Re increased its profits by nearly 13% to DM 122m ($68m) in 1997, ...
Practice takes on the law.
Are proportional reinsurers liable for their cedants' legal expenses? John Butler reports.
Mid Ocean income up.
Bermuda-based holding company Mid Ocean boosted its net income in the second quarter to 30 April by ...
Two out of three.
Good name, great people, shame about the logo. At least that is Reinsurance's verdict on progress in...
Willis forms Cordis.
Willis Faber Re, the reinsurance broking arm of Willis Corroon, has formed an independent consultanc...
Ace tactics pay off as income soars.
The last quarter to 31 March was a profitable one both strategically and financially for Bermudian i...
Dukes acquires firm in run-off.
Dukes Place Holdings has acquired the run-off subsidiary of Italian insurer Istituto Nazionale delle...
HartRe in Italy.
Hartford Re is to assume Italian insurer La Fondiaria's property/casualty reinsurance business. In a...
Insurers in the slow lane.
Adrian Leonard finds the aggressive European motor market, with its continued soft rates and a decline in proportional treaties, keeping reinsurers in the red.
A healthy environment for insurance
Tony Lennon assesses recent developments and trends in UK environmental insurance, following delays by successive governments in defining statutory contamination liability.