Regulation
Danish Re and Newmarket to merge Lloyd's operations
The Denmark-based reinsurer Danish Re is to boost its underwriting by combining its Lloyd's business,...
Indie appoints provisional liquidators
Pricewaterhouse Coopers, which was this morning appointed as provisional liquidators at Independent I...
US takes over UK as Lloyd's biggest market
Figures released by Lloyd's today have revealed that the United States has become the insurance marke...
New chairman for IUA
The International Underwriting Association has appointed Stephen Cane, chief executive officer of Ale...
IFAs in training.
The Financial Services Authority is expanding its series of training & competence workshops to help ...
Evidence proves to be pest course of action.
Griffin v Clwyd Health Authority (Court of Appeal - 14 May 2001)
Independent on a precipice.
Independent Insurance is in an awful mess, and investors and City watchers alike are nervous and dis...
FSA list slammed.
The Financial Services Authority has been criticised for the way it plans to list comparative tables...
FSA unveils new risk approach.
A new approach to risk management was unveiled by the Financial Services Authority last week, with t...
BPL extends into France.
Niche Lloyd's broker Berry Palmer & Lyle, a trade credit and political risk insurance specialist, ha...
Claims Direct denies solvency problems after board reshuffle.
Claims Direct has denied it has been in buyout talks with Zurich Municipal or that it is experiencin...
Lloyd's: hard Labour.
With all the speculation over who will be the next Tory leader following Labour's landslide election ...
Boateng gets insurance post.
Paul Boateng MP and Ruth Kelly MP will be the new lobbying targets for the insurance industry, follo...
Costing the benefits.
Though a cluster of cases relating to the Social Security (Recovery of Benefit) Act 1997 were recently resolved in favour of the insurer, Greg Woods warns the battle is not over.
Decision on suicide risks.
Orange v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (Court of Appeal - 1 May 2001).
Equitas gives Names no guarantees.
Worries rose in the London market this week, after Lloyd's reinsurer Equitas admitted it can offer "...
Appointment at Zenith Insurance.
Andrew Mansbridge has been appointed credit control supervisor at Zenith Insurance. He brings with h...
A Stirling contract.
Technology provider Marlborough Stirling has entered into a contract with Axa Sun Life to implement ...
Willis succeeds at partial flotation
The world's third-largest insurance broker, Willis, raised a better-than-expected $270m from an initi...
Ex-Lloyd's IT head joins Miller Fisher
Miller Fisher has bolstered its team with the appointment of ex-Lloyd's head of IT Tim Gregory as gro...
News in brief - Swiss Re
Swiss Re is funding and taking part in an 18-month study by Harvard Law School's international financ...
US Re goes international.
US Re has set up an international division in response to growth in its business in continental Euro...
Back to the future.
There have been some significant shifts in views about the future of reinsurance since Reinsurance last canvassed opinions two years ago. Janina Clark reveals the latest predictions.
Obligations are implied.
Are parties to a reinsurance contract subject to implied terms and, if so, what form do they take? In a continuation of last month's article, John Butler considers post-contractual duty.