Reinsurance
Winds of change.
Storms have battered the market, but may not be enough to boost reinsurance rates. Eric Alexander canvasses views ahead of the Baden-Baden renewal talks.
Do you feel lucky?
Reinsurers claim to be confident that rates will rise at the coming renewals, but the level of increases remains something of a gamble. Cameron Andrews reports from the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.
Arch Capital heads for Bermuda.
Yet another (re)insurer is set to move from the US to Bermuda, to take advantage of what it called t...
Taking cover from disasters.
More catastrophe reinsurance cover is being bought and more is being paid for it, but rates are stil...
You can't have it both ways.
The doctrine of 'apparent authority' is broad but does not operate if the person who invokes it knows a limitation on the authority or has taken steps to limit it, explains Peter Chaffetz.
Cost-effective commuting.
Adrian Leonard finds out how Equitas, the world's biggest run-off company, approaches the complex art of commutation.
P&I cover dries up.
Reinsurance will be difficult to find for both mutual and fixed-premium protection and indemnity insurers, reports Adrian Leonard.
PXRe plans to remain at Lloyd's.
PXRe Managing Agency, the Lloyd's agent owned by troubled reinsurer PXRe, has rejected suggestions t...
McGowan new COO.
Broker Herbert Clough has appointed Robert McGowan as president and chief operating officer. Mr McGo...
Shelter for Stirling syndicate.
Omega Underwriting Agents has launched a rescue bid for Lloyd's syndicate 529. The syndicate, man...
On the move at last?
Will the UK government's response to the Royal Commission report on long-term care finally kick-start sales of insurance products? Keith Sankey canvasses the opinion of reassurers.
Reanalysis - Reinsurance rates - Market faces continued low rates,
Even a major catastrophe would not be enough to trigger a significant rise in reinsurance rates, rat...
Good news - no big rises.
It is October and the reinsurance world is talking rates. Will they rise? Will they rise enough? The...
Big premium rise for US reinsurers
A group of 33 members of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) wrote $12.3bn of property and c...
Appointment at The Miller Insurance Group.
Harry Bennett has become a director of the property and liability team at the Miller Insurance Group...
PXRe denies exit plans
Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRe has finally denied that it intends to leave Lloyd's (Post Magazine 14 Se...
Lloyd's may lose PXRe.
Troubled Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRe is understood to be planning an exit from Lloyd's only four ye...
Irish giant in UK broker drive.
Northern Ireland conglomerate the Viridian Group, which claims to be the province's largest company ...
Reinsurance outlook negative.
A major catastrophe would not be enough to trigger a significant rise in reinsurance rates, rating a...
French fuel crisis traps reinsurers
Over 2000 reinsurers, brokers and lawyers could be trapped in Monte Carlo if the blockade of French r...
Negative outlook for reinsurance rates
Even a major catastrophe would not be enough to trigger a significant rise in reinsurance rates, rati...
Appointment at IPC Re.
James Bryce (below) has been promoted to succeed John Dowling as president and CEO of Bermudian prop...
Reinsurers join credit association for first time.
Reinsurers have become part of the membership of the International Credit Insurance Association (ICI...
Appointment at Tempest Re.
Jacques Bonneau, who was appointed in late 1999 by Tempest Re to lead its multiline expansion into t...