Reinsurance
Hannover Re boosted by program income.
Hannover Re has reported gross premium income for 1999 up almost 50% on the previous year. Howeve...
British Insurance Award winners.
The winners of this year's British Insurance Awards were presented with their awards last month at a...
Global reinsurance - More mergers forecast among reinsurers.
The global reinsurance market should see the start of rate recovery this year, but it faces major st...
US posts poor P&C results.
The bleak situation among US property/casualty reinsurers has been demonstrated once again by new fi...
Hurricane season forecast revised.
Hurricane forecast guru Professor Bill Gray of Colorado State University has increased the number of...
Steps up in life.
As part of its strategy to expand its life business, Swiss Re has appointed John Coomber, a member o...
On the up down under?
Australia's largest general insurer NRMA Insurance, which is due to lose its mutuality status when i...
PXRE's new system.
Lloyd's managing agency PXRE is using a document management system from technology firm August. It w...
Isles don't fear ban.
The Channel Islands insurance community is confident that plans to force "tax havens" to reform will ...
Mapfre buys Chatham companies.
Spain's Mapfre Re has completed its acquisition of US-based Chatham Holdings and its subsidiaries, C...
BIA winners announced
At last night's British Insurance Awards CNA Re won the reinsurance initiative of the year category, ...
Hot and steamy month of May.
With average temperatures and rainfall up on usual, the month of May was a steamy one for the UK, ac...
Syn-tastic, mate.
Today is one of the most nerve-racking days in the year for Lloyd's underwriters, with the publicati...
Atruim denies MBO.
Lloyd's insurer Atrium has denied that it will shortly undertake a management buyout as its share pr...
Experts predict below average storm activity
The number of hurricanes striking the US and typhoons hitting Japan are likely to be below average in...
Hannover Re growth continues
Hannover Re has announced an 18% increase in both its net income and earnings per share in 1999. Gr...
Lloyd's opens its doors.
Lloyd's modernising drive has finally reached brokers. At present, only brokers based in London and ...
What the Papers Say.
EVENING STANDARD London has become an international centre for stolen and smuggled works of art, ...
Gen Re hit by low rates.
US reinsurer General Re has reported a consolidated net underwriting loss of $273m on earned premium...
Tyszkiewicz runs for charity.
John Tyszkiewicz, of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, has raised £20,000 ($30,300) for the UK's Nat...
Steffey quits as head of ReAC.
Nick Steffey, chief executive of loss-making Reinsurance Australia Corporation (ReAC), resigned last...
Technology takes its time.
An IT revolution is coming ... eventually. Adrian Leonard finds reports of technological transformation in the reinsurance industry greatly exaggerated.
Co-operation in operations.
Mike Hannan reflects on this year's London Processing Centre conference and urges (re)insurers to work together on IT issues.
S&P predicts further gloom.
Europe's reinsurers averaged a combined ratio of 131% on their global results in 1999, according to ...