Reinsurance
Picking up the pieces.
The forthcoming Baden-Baden meeting will be significantly different to previous years' - the world's insurers and reinsurers will be focusing on how to deal with the huge global losses suffered in the US terrorist attacks, says Eric Alexander.
QBE acts to build war chest
Australia's QBE Insurance Group, which is a dominant player in the Lloyd's market, is to raise up to ...
IPC Re increases terrorism loss figure
IPC Re of Bermuda has increased the estimate of its losses from the 11 September terrorist attacks in...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Where have all the good golfers gone? Not to Marsh's new £1bn insurer Axis, apparently. In his drive...
Ryanair to sell policies online.
Budget Irish airline Ryanair has linked up with insurer Churchill and broker Richardson Insurance to...
Insurance goes to war.
As the US leads the UK and others into war, PM looks back to 1941, when a UK insurance delegation fl...
Property cat reinsurer planned
RenaissanceRe Holdings and State Farm Automobile Insurance are to try to take advantage of the opport...
Ryanair teams up with Churchill to sell insurance online
Irish low cost airline Ryanair has linked up with insurer Churchill and Dublin-based broker Richardso...
Charman heads Axis.
John Charman, former Ace chief executive who last month returned to the market to oversee the run-of...
Reinsurance will become stronger, says S&P
Most reinsurers would emerge from the aftermath of the 11 September terrorist attacks in the US stron...
Inreon records first trades
The internet-based reinsurance trading system Inreon said it had completed its first trades between b...
Charman to head up new reinsurer
Former Ace chief John Charman has been recruited to head up the new insurance and reinsurance company...
Marsh's equity arm sets up $1bn Bermudian reinsurer
MMC Capital, the private equity arm of broker Marsh & McLennan, is responding to what it says is a sh...
Atrium and SVB post poor results.
Lloyd's insurers Atrium Underwriting and SVB both posted poor results for the first six months of the...
Industry should back terror call from Bush.
The insurance industry should back the call by President George W Bush to flush terrorist money out ...
New to the screen.
The insurance sector is currently seeing a flurry of technology launches as companies rush to get their new products rolled out to the market. Edward Murray takes a look at just some of the the latest products and developments on offer.
Ace increases estimate to $550m
Ace has increased its estimated exposure to the impact from the September 11th terrorist attacks from...
US moves to set up pool.
The terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September look likely to lead to the US government proposing a ...
Dignity in adversity.
Last month was undoubtedly one of the most difficult and traumatic the (re)insurance world has ever ...
Carvill America's new office.
Treaty reinsurance broker Carvill America is setting up an office on the west coast of the US. It ha...
Losses will trigger market changes.
The terrorist attacks of 11 September, widely predicted to be the largest loss event in insurance his...
Benfield delays share sale.
The privately owned reinsurance broker Benfield Greig has put on hold its plan to get in outside inve...
The right channel?
As reinsurers start to introduce program business to Europe, Adrian Leonard looks at the ups and downs of the business in its native US.
Looking back and looking forward.
Before the US terrorist attacks, Reinsurance and PricewaterhouseCoopers gathered a group of top executives in Monte Carlo for a lunch debate on the state of the reinsurance market. Janina Clark reports on a thought-provoking debate.