Reinsurance
Disastercare move.
Domestic restorers Disastercare, which includes Norwich Union and Prudential among its clients, is l...
Benfield Greig acquires E W Blanch
Benfield Greig Group, the independent, UK-based reinsurance intermediary is to acquire EW Blanch Hold...
Benfield buys Blanch
Benfield Greig, the UK reinsurance broker, is to pay $179m for troubled US broker EW Blanch. The an...
Lloyd's awards Disney Wonder captain.
Lloyd's awarded Fabian Dib, staff captain of the cruise ship Disney Wonder, centre, the first Master...
BIBA giveaway.
Win an Evesham family computer system at the British Insurance Brokers' Association annual conferenc...
AHJ: new division.
Lloyd's broker Alwen Hough Johnson has formed a new operating division AHJ Special Lines. David Doe ...
Benfield Greig to decide on rival Blanch buyout.
London market broker Benfield Greig is expected to announce whether it will acquire troubled Texas-b...
Alarm raised in local authorities.
Insurers have defended local authorities' attitudes to risk management, following a scathing report ...
Axa and Renaissance invest in ICAT Managers
Axa Corporate Solutions Re and Renaissance Re are to take stakes in catastrophe insurance specialist ...
Axa and Renaissance invest in ICAT Managers
Axa Corporate Solutions Re and Renaissance Re are to take stakes in catastrophe insurance specialist ...
"Something for nothing" can't go on
Buyers of marine insurance must realise that they cannot have something for nothing all the time, war...
"Something for nothing" can't go on
Buyers of marine insurance must realise that they cannot have something for nothing all the time, war...
John Charman quits Ace International.
John Charman has quit his position as president and chief executive of Ace International because of ...
News in brief.
Hannover Re has expanded its US program business with the acquisition of business and an underwritin...
News in brief.
Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries General Re and Berkshire Hathaway Re recorded pre-tax underwriting l...
News in brief.
US (re)insurer The St Paul Companies has sold its 1.7m shares in Renaissance Re, the Bermudian prope...
Benfield eyes EW Blanch.
Troubled US reinsurance broker EW Blanch is believed to be in talks about its possible takeover by t...
Charity sponsorship.
John Tyszkiewicz of broker Guy Carpenter raised £35,000 ($50,000) for charity despite extreme weathe...
News in brief.
Hannover Re expects its net income for 2000 to be up 78% on 1999 to around EUR360m, due largely to t...
Hampton Re opens for business
A new life reinsurance company, Hampton Re, has been set up in Bermuda by Bill Walker, former preside...
US motor in a spin.
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, has accused State Farm M...
Appointment at Darwin Rhodes.
Darwin Rhodes, recruitment consultants for the financial services industry, has a new consultant on ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is off to Cardiff next week to join her friends in the loss adjusting fraternity, armed with h...
Premium growth for US P&C reinsurers
US property casualty reinsurers wrote $24.9bn of net premiums last year, up from $21.2bn in 1999, acc...