Reinsurance
GIC Re to set up nat cat pool
General Insurance Corporation (GIC Re), the Indian state-owned national reinsurance company, is in the process of setting up a natural catastrophe pool for insurance and reinsurance companies in Africa and Asia
Tropical Cyclone Phyan hits off coast of Mumbai
Tropical Cyclone Phyan hits India’s western coast near the commercial capital, Mumbai, prompting evacuations and storm warnings.
Arig reports nine month profit turnaround
Arig's results for the first nine months improve markedly.
Scor to pull funding from Lloyd's syndicate
Scor's CUO of global P&C has told Reinsurance that from 2010 it will cease supporting one of its current 9 Lloyd's syndicates
JLT claims it is on track to meet 2009 expectations
CEO Dominic Burke hails strategy of "balanced growth"
Novae delivers upbeat statement
Lloyd's (re)insurer tells the market that gross written premiums rose by 15% in the first nine months of 2009.
US financial reform bill proposed
A new financial services regulatory reform bill has been proposed in Congress.
Ida lands in the Gulf of Mexico
Tropical storm Ida lands in the USA, but no major damage is reported.
Transatlantic Re outlook upgraded by AM Best
Ratings agency AM Best happier on the prospects for US reinsurer
Argo adds two senior executives
Argo, the Bermudian (re)insurer, said that it has appointed two senior staff to its team.
Canopius appoints senior underwriter
Canopius adds Derek Hansen to team.
Casualty must transform
Simon Bird examines the issues facing casualty treaty reinsurers in 2010.
The face of Latin American insurance
Katherine Blackler talks to Franklin Santarelli, senior director (Latin America), Fitch Ratings about the state of Latin America’s (re)insurance markets.
Scor opens new London office
Scor, the French reinsurer, is opening a new London office at 10 Lime Street
Failed reinsurers should be left to collapse - Allianz
A senior member of the board of management of German insurer Allianz has said insurers and reinsurers should not expect government help if they hit problems.
Rates have to rise in Asia - Gerhardt
Pairs Re CEO Hans-Peter Gerhardt says the Asian market has to look at the prices which are being charged for risks if there is to be a sustainable market for all.
Troubling period ahead for reinsurers - Partner Re CEO
Partner Re’s CEO Patrick Thiele did not win many friends among some of his peers when he delivered his address at the Singapore International Reinsurance Conference.
Ida downgraded to a tropical storm
Ida, which threatened the US Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane, has been downgraded to a tropical storm.
Liberty's director of underwriting departs
Liberty's director of underwriting Tom Corfield has left the company Reinsurance has learned.
recruitment moves
Jardine Lloyd Thompson has appointed Anthony Langridge as regional chairman of JLT Asia with effect from 4 January 2010. Langridge has spent more than 30 years in Asia and has held a number of senior positions within Aon, most recently as chairman of its…
Lloyd's 2012 challenge
Jon Francis, manager of business development at Whittington, examines Lloyd's claims performance and what the next step is for the market.
Uncertain direction ahead
Beset by the global recession and a seemingly never-ending soft market, Tim Evershed reviews the state of and prospects for casualty lines.
Ploughing the reinsurance furrow
Katherine Blackler speaks to Jeremy Brazil about falling into the industry and how it is coping with the perils of recession.
Quirk in the mainstream
Katherine Blackler talks to Geraldine Quirk, partner and run-off specialist at law firm Clyde & Co.