Reinsurance
Roll of Honour - 1995-2001.
Seven years of BIA winners and although the names may change, the drive for excellence remains the same.
Troubled SVB receives capacity stay and US backing.
Lloyd's insurer SVB Underwriting will not be required to reduce its capacity for 2002, following an ...
Swiss Re in $255m securitisation
Swiss Re has arranged $255m of catastrophe protection through a securitisation deal. The four-year ...
Expansion for TH&B web-based document repository.
Lloyd's broker Thompson Heath & Bond plans to extend the scope of its web-based document repository ...
Euclidian to set up new insurer.
Lloyd's insurer Euclidian is seeking to establish a new company, either in London or Bermuda, backed ...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
Ecclesiastical Insurance has recruited Dieter Losse, an international reinsurance expert with a care...
Further growth expected in Czech insurance market
The Czech Republic's insurance market is set to expand further on top of strong growth over more than...
Flooding committee draws up action plan.
The All Parliamentary Committee on Flooding, which met for the first time this week, is to draw up a...
Winning interior.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson's newly designed and fitted Atrium has won three awards at this year's...
Arig to strengthen capital base
Arig's shareholders have approved plans for the Bahrain-based (re)insurer to raise $100m through a ri...
Appointment at Pinsent Curtis Biddle.
Tim Burton, the former head of legal at Benfield Group, has become national head of insurance and re...
Broker Bradstock hints of eventual return to retail.
Broker Bradstock has hinted it could eventually return to retail business pending the outcome of an ...
Axis CFO faces action over shares.
The chief financial officer of Bermudian start-up Axis, Andrew Cook, has become embroiled in a law s...
Appointment at PXRe.
Jeffrey Radke has been promoted to president and the new position of chief operating officer of Berm...
Dark days in America.
US reinsurers hit records for all the wrong reasons last year. Patricia Vowinkel assesses the impac...
Capital complications.
Once the initial horror over the events of 11 September had subsided, the immediate concern of (re)i...
Rebriefs - Beazley.
Lloyd's managing agency Beazley is seeking to increase its capital for 2003 and is considering the c...
Full of life.
The steady trickle of life and health (re)insurers currently setting up shop in Dublin will soon turn into a heavy flow, predicts David Fanning.
Special Risk now open.
The new company set up by six big (re)insurers to write European property terrorism cover, Special R...
Wellington to open non-Lloyd's unit.
Wellington Underwriting was confident in late June that it would launch its new reinsurer, Wellingto...
German pool in doubt.
German (re)insurers' proposal for a state-backed terrorism insurer could collapse by early July beca...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Like the rest of the insurance market, Penny spent Friday afternoon celebrating England's success ag...
Appointment at Elliotts.
Elliotts Solicitors has promoted Carole Spiller to associate in the litigation department. With the ...
Ex-Markel management launches new insurer.
The former senior management of Lloyd's managing agency Markel Syndicate Management has set up a new...