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Controversy surrounds GIO Re collapse.
Recent catastrophes have claimed a reinsurance victim - GIO Re of Australia, which has stopped under...
Equitas ups collection from reinsurers.
Equitas, the company set up by Lloyd's to reinsure and run off its pre-1993 liabilities, increased r...
Adjuster of perceptions.
CILA president Paul May is on a mission to improve the standing of loss adjusters. Janina Clark heard his plans.
Live wires.
Treating run-off companies as 'live' improves brokers' profits and ensures companies are not sidelined, argues Leslie-Ann Giovnilli.
Into the red?
There are many opportunities for foreign reinsurers in Russia, but Adrian Leonard finds dangers also abound.
How to minimise casualties.
With risks multiplying and litigation on the increase, the threat of major casualty losses is very real. However, a new form of casualty catastrophe reinsurance means help is at hand, insists John Cavanagh.
Not plain sailing.
Over the last 30 years, and especially over the past five, big changes have swept through the marine market, writes Eric Alexander.
Boeing, Swissair to pay damages.
Boeing and the Swissair group are jointly to pay the compensatory damages resulting from the crash o...
Carefree not an option.
An ageing global population raises urgent questions about long-term care. Janina Clark hears the UK debate.
Euro cash for Chiyoda.
Chiyoda Fire & Marine Insurance of Japan has invested £15m ($24m) in its European subsidiary, which ...
A tale of two markets.
Lloyd's and the London company market are not paving the way for a merger, argues David Clarke. Co-operation between them simply ensures continued competition.
Creditors vote on Charter Re payment plan.
The long saga of the run-off of Charter Re is moving towards its final stage with creditors expected...
Jumbo headaches.
The launch of Concorde and the first jumbo jets, with their huge hull values and unproven cutting-edge technology, posed a whole new set of problems for insurers, says Eric Alexander.
Insurers blasted for keeping mum.
Life offices have been accused of refusing to tell customers they might get a better deal elsewhere....
Cartel-making claims are wrong and damaging.
I am extremely disappointed to see the way information about the British Damage Management Associati...
Waite watches hull.
The new hull insurance syndicate formed by Thomas Miller, Chartwell and Swiss Re, to be launched in ...
Time squeeze on claims.
New procedures for debt recovery claims inadvertently apply to complex multi-party reinsurance dispu...
All cost, no benefit?
The Woolf reforms imposed extra costs on professional indemnity insurers but Simon Chandler argues that imaginative use of the new rules can bring immediate financial benefits, as a recent case illustrates.
Insurers fail to pass the staff test.
An industry is only as good as the people that work in it and, by inference, as those that are attra...
The task of Porro.
Swiss Re's head of risk and reinsurance, Bruno Porro, talks to Adrian Leonard about the group's approach to the new set of problems facing reinsurers.
East is east and west is west.
Deals between eastern and western insurers are rare compared with those in the banking sector. Jeremy Golden finds out why.
Aon welcomes full disclosure from Bupa.
Aon Consulting has welcomed health insurer Bupa's move to fully disclose commissions on all large co...
LPC's new system.
The London Processing Centre has introduced a central settlement system that allows companies and br...
How would you like your stake?
The answer is well-done if your talking about stakeholder pensions, because, as Francis Higney reports, any half-baked pension provision could only mean another radical shake-up in a few years.