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Health - Healthty options from HSBC.
HSBC Bank has launched a new range of health products underwritten by insurer CGU. The trio of pl...
Clear path for Indian reforms.
Everything is in place for the opening up of the Indian insurance market to private players and fore...
Prudential Insurance sponsors The Art of Bloomsbury at Tate Gallery.
The Art of Bloomsbury sponsored by Prudential Insurance begins at the Tate Gallery today. The exhibi...
Standard bearer.
Software provider Insurance Technology (Intech) Solutions has been confirmed by Lloyd's Register Qua...
Feeling bullish.
Insurance companies have always loomed large among institutional investors. To get a fully-rounded analysis of the global and domestic economy, John Burke spoke to some of the major insurance players to gauge their views on the world's stockmarkets.
Rhine's a large one.
Reinsurer Rhine Re has expanded its presence in the US with the acquisition of Equus Re, a division ...
Exclusive - New Year shutdown.
Despite months of testing, claims processing in the London market will not occur over the festive pe...
Japanese insurer to build global strategy around Dublin operation.
Tokyo Marine & Fire Insurance, the largest non-life insurer in Japan, has completed plans to streaml...
Pru to axe 1400 jobs.
Prudential this week confirmed that 1400 jobs are to go in the brutal second stage of its cost cutti...
Tennessee wind-up.
Rogue financier Martin Frankel is having his Franklin American Life company wound up by the Tennesse...
Agreement over new law goes insurers' way.
Insurance companies in the US have won valuable victories in the protracted battle to allow banks, i...
AMP's bank plans.
Australian insurer AMP is planning to launch a UK bank next spring offering cut-price mortgages and ...
Crash Boeing hull insurer
The hull of the EgyptAir Boeing 767 jetliner which crashed into the sea yesterday, killing all 217 pa...
A full range of services.
(Re)insurers can now outsource everything except risk taking. Ivor Kiverstein charts the rise and rise of the service provider.
Avoiding avoidance.
Discipline and long-term relationships are the keys to successful treaties, argues Terry O'Neill.
Shaken but still strong.
Taiwan may have been struck by a devastating earthquake, but its economy remains strong, says Jeremy Golden.
IUMI calls for a rethink.
It came as little surprise to delegates that September's conference of the International Union of Ma...
To the bottom of the pool.
In the second of his series on Kingscroft v Nissan Fire and Marine, John Butler looks at the background to the placing of the Weavers pool Facility Quota Share treaties.
Slovenian growth slows down.
Growth for the two active reinsurers in Slovenia slowed in 1998, but the overall claims ratio fell f...
Trio of laws transform the market.
Three recent changes in Bermuda law will affect the way insurers do business on the island, says Warren Cabral.
A run-in over run-off.
A US court has enforced a solvent scheme over strenuous opposition from a US creditor. Peter Chaffetz and Howard Seife explain the implications.
Dex ready to write marine.
The new Lloyd's marine hull syndicate being created by Swiss Re, Chartwell Re and marine mutual mana...
TMGRe in operational restructure
Tokio Marine Global Re in Dublin is to become the centre for the reinsurance operations of its parent...
Not so traditional now.
Civil litigation as we knew it changed radically on 26 April. Marcus Alcock gauges the reactions to Woolf of those solicitors who are dealing with the changes on a day-to-day basis, and also looks at the effects the reforms have had on insurers.