Regulation
Schell becomes president of St Paul Re.
Mike Schell, managing director of St Paul Re UK (pictured), has been appointed to the newly created ...
Appointment at Secura Belgian Re.
Jan Leflot is to take over as managing director and president of Secura Belgian Re when Andre De Bon...
Markel hit by Terra Nova acquisition.
Troubled Markel International - created from the former Terra Nova operations which Markel bought in...
Full of surprises.
Russia has restrictions on foreign (re)insurers, a reputation for financial impropriety, a changing taxation system and only a theoretical commitment to liberalisation. Yet foreign firms are keen to tap the potentially huge market.
No deal for American Re.
New Jersey-based American Re's proposed acquisition of United National Group (UNG), the Pennsylvania...
Avoiding the vanilla.
Last year's catastrophes are taking their toll on reinsurers' results and rates still refuse to harden significantly. Richard Willsher asks whether the future for reinsurers lies away from selling the vanilla-flavoured reinsurance cover of old.
Paris crash liability could top $300m.
A German lawyer is to seek compensation, which could total more than $300m, in the US for the famili...
Can't get the staff.
Reinsurers are aiming to recruit new blood, but attracting the right sort of graduate and setting up suitable training courses is not easy. Cameron Andrews reports.
Advantage insurance.
Financial guarantee insurers should be making the most of the price advantage over banks that is created by rules on capital. George Sandars reports.
Fighting talk.
Robert Hiscox has been one of the Lloyd's Council's fiercest critics on everything from unlimited liability to underwriting standards. Adrian Leonard finds him as bellicose as ever.
Mariners awash with statistics.
Raj Ahuja and Steve Mathews argue that marine insurers will continue to swim against the tide until they make better use of the data that is readily available to them.
IUA hits back at S&P claim.
London's company market has hit back at rating agency Standard & Poor's claim that Lloyd's is increa...
Global dynamics.
UK-based actuarial consultant English Matthews Brockman has established a joint-venture company with...
London plan is imminent.
A report outlining new London market procedures and standards will be released this month, the Inter...
Seeing the bigger picture.
Easily the most interesting remark heard this month was made by a guest at our Lunch Forum. The g...
GE rebranding for ERC Frankona.
ERC Frankona has been re-named GE Frankona Re by US parent Employers Re (ERC). The rebranding, ef...
Finite possibilities.
Jed Rhoads argues that finite reinsurance can offer solutions to companies' risk management problems, whether those companies are well-run and profitable or desperately in need of a helping hand.
Aon acquisition.
Aon Consulting is to acquire Actuarial Sciences Associates, an employee benefits and compensation co...
Baltic Exchange disappointed at planning permission.
The Baltic Exchange has expressed disappointment that the proposed Swiss Re tower has been granted p...
Merchant International Group releases survival manual.
Corporate intelligence specialists Merchant International Group has released a survival manual for e...
Limit 79 looses four.
Limit's composite syndicate 79 this week saw four underwriters leave to join US-backed energy syndic...
Nixon in GISC rally round.
George Nixon, chairman of the British Insurance Broker's Association, sent out the first of a planne...
FA hopes for major insurer interest in PI.
The Football Association is hoping that major brokers will be among those tendering for the new, com...
Egg wasn't cracked.
Three men were held and then released on police bail last week, after being questioned about an atte...