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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.
The Christ child cometh.
The climatic phenomenon known as 'El Nino' has received some bad press recently, but although its effects are certainly global, they have yet to be fully understood, says Tony Dowding.
New Labour, new market.
This year's Swiss Re Life & Health Insurance Report indicates that UK consumers are taking financial matters into their own hands, says Peter Maynard.
Lehman establishes reinsurance arm.
Investment banker Lehman Brothers has set up a reinsurance subsidiary to offer securitisation and st...
PWS Holdings reports rise in profits.
London-based reinsurance broker PWS Holdings reported pre-tax profit up 7% to £0.83m ($1.35m) in the...
ILU/Lirma merger shows its colours.
As Reinsurance went to press, members of the Institute of London Underwriters and the London Interna...
Cartograph renamed.
UK catastrophe modeller Cartograph has changed its name to Risk Management Solutions Limited followi...
S&P ratings unreliable, say P&I managers.
Managers of some protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs are unhappy about the first set of club rating...
Huge liability claims likely after crash.
Huge liability claims look likely to hit (re)insurers following the crash of a high-speed Inter-City...