Regulation
Bitterness increases over premium taxes.
The German Insurance Association (Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicheringswirtshaft) is stepping up...
Lloyd's backs 1999 conversion scheme.
Lloyd's has given approval for the first members' agent 1999 Names Conversion Scheme. The scheme,...
Exclusive - London and Lloyd's link-up.
Eurobase Systems has launched a set of tools designed to simplify the process of unifying the IT sys...
Ratings sail into firing line over US bias.
When Jacques Leglu last week launched a broadside against ratings agencies it seemed he struck a chord with many Euro insurers. But David Worsfold finds some UK firms are wondering what all the fuss is about.
Learning scheme hailed a success.
Engineering insurer Eagle Star has launched a distance learning scheme for training brokers. The ...
FSA to delay new pensions review decision.
The FSA has announced it is to seek further consultation on contentious rebate-only cases in Phase 2...
Tobacco bill stubbed out.
The senate tobacco bill aimed at endorsing a deal between tobacco manufacturers and the States has b...
The smaller they come the harder they fall.
Japan's financial deregulation 'Big Bang' is proving to be a damp squib for some of the country's me...
Luck of the Irish eluded some in '97.
The Irish Insurance Federation's life and non-life member companies suffered a year of sharp contras...
Promotion for Fiore.
Australian reinsurer Sydney Re has promoted James Fiore to senior vice-president and chief underwrit...
Lightening the load.
With the need for efficiency paramount in the current soft market, brokers should consider the benefits of outsourcing, argues Nick Eddery-Joel.
US pollution law in a mess.
There is no relief in sight for (re)insurers from claims for clean-up costs under Superfund, reports Valerie Fogleman.
REANALYSIS - INDIA - Insurers wait for an opening in India.
Foreign insurers keen to be allowed to write business in India were remaining optimistic about their...
Building on a base of success.
Bermuda's Premier, Minister of Finance and Registrar of Companies talk to Janina Clark about the island's future.
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.
Practice takes on the law.
Are proportional reinsurers liable for their cedants' legal expenses? John Butler reports.
Two out of three.
Good name, great people, shame about the logo. At least that is Reinsurance's verdict on progress in...
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...
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.
BAV chief cautions against 'turnover at any price'.
Last week I was in Berlin for the annual meeting of the Presse Internationale des Assurances, an ass...
Pensions drive is no spur-of-the-moment action.
In his letter last week, Geoffrey Lloyd expressed support for our campaign to end integration in ins...
Exclusive - CMG warns of IT bottleneck.
CMG has launched a software solution that offers insurers a fast track method of adding Individual S...