Reinsurance
News in brief.
Axa Corporate Solutions Re and Renaissance Re are taking stakes in catastrophe insurance specialist ...
Reanalysis - Petrobras - Sinking lifts offshore risk.
The sinking of the world's largest semi-submersible oil platform will have a dramatic effect on the ...
The art of the city.
Over the past decade, Dublin has proved to be the ideal base for several leading non-traditional (re)insurers. Adrian Leonard listens to some of the top players describe its charms.
Hannover Re sets up new reinsurer
Hannover Re has set up a new reinsurance subsidiary in Bermuda to write catastrophe business on a wor...
Hurricanes likely to hit US.
The probability of a major hurricane hitting the US this year is "above average", according to forec...
News in brief.
The US property & casualty insurance sector is over-capitalised by 20-30% and the average risk-adjus...
News in brief.
Bill Walker, former president of Hannover Life Re, and Kaj Ahlmann, former vice-chairman of EW Blanc...
ART for everyone.
Alternative risk transfer products are gradually gaining acceptance. Janina Clark sees evolution rather than revolution in the market.
News in brief.
US property casualty reinsurers wrote $24.9bn of net premiums last year, up from $21.2bn in 1999, ac...
Benfield Greig set to overtake Willis.
Benfield Greig's $179m cash acquisition of EW Blanch will push it ahead of Willis to become the worl...
Backing for Greig.
Benfield Greig Group, the UK-based independent reinsurance intermediary, has received the backing of...
Atrium looks on the bright side.
Integrated Lloyd's vehicle Atrium Underwriting remained upbeat about future underwriting performance...
Benfield gets backing for takeover
Benfield Greig Group, the UK based independent reinsurance intermediary, has received the backing of ...
Atrium slips into the red
Lloyd's based insurer Atrium Underwriting's financial results for 2000 were hit by investment losses ...
Draft Indian pay rules welcomed.
The Indian government is set to introduce draft legislation to allow commission payments to insuranc...
EW Blanch staff face job losses.
US reinsurance broker EW Blanch's 300-strong London office faces possible redundancies, as a result ...
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 ...