Reinsurance
IOPC signs deal with Italian government.
The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund has signed a £42.9m deal with the Italian governme...
Swiss Re buys a slice of US life for £240m.
Swiss Re has plunged into the US life market with a raid on two insurers costing a total of £240m. ...
Pavillion Computing provides IT solution.
Pavillion Computing has provided an IT solution for Lloyd's yacht underwriter Haven Knox-Johnston. T...
Hanover closes deal.
Hanover Re confirmed last week that it had closed the agreement announced in August last year for th...
Sowing seeds of discontent.
Jeremy Rifkin introduces this month's Lunch Forum debate on the liability issues surrounding GM crops.
US merger mania to spread.
Consolidation looks set to continue in the US reinsurance market as Bermudian insurance group XL Cap...
Dual-trigger policy from Tempest Re.
Bermudian catastrophe reinsurer Tempest Re has sold what it claims is the first reinsurance contract...
Ace has purchased $1.25bn of reinsurance.
Bermudian insurance group Ace has purchased $1.25bn of reinsurance from Berkshire Hathaway's Nationa...
Hampden champions private capital after latest buy.
The Hampden Group has become the largest agency in Lloyd's for private capital following its purchas...
The shape of things to come.
Adrian Leonard reports on a software tool that shows - graphically - the shape of your reinsurance programme.
Plain, not ordinary.
Lawclub Legal Protection has revamped its Retro product literature. The new leaflets now carry the P...
When the music stops.
Most of us as children probably played musical chairs, the party game in which a group of players ci...
Top Layer for Renaissance.
Bermudian reinsurer Renaissance Re and giant US insurer State Farm have teamed up to provide up to $...
A clause for concern.
Incorporating arbitration clauses from underlying policies into reinsurance covers is tricky, says John Butler.
Balancing risk and reward.
Robert C.B. Miller considers the best ways to manage risks and returns in a soft market.
Forewarned is forearmed.
If reinsurers are to reduce the impact of future catastrophes they must improve their understanding of them, says Alex Beatty.
Life goes to Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has completed its $1.8bn acquisition of US-based Life Re (Re Sept. 1998, p5), making it the...
Mutre seeks out French health market.
A new joint-stock professional reinsurer has been quietly formed in France over the past few months ...
New share valuations shock reinsurers.
A new method for valuing the shares of (re)insurers has produced radically different figures to curr...
Archard to PXRE.
US reinsurer PXRE has appointed Paul Archard as managing director of the group's Lloyd's agent, PXRE...
A feeling of deja vu?
Last year Reinsurance carried a review with a view to the future. This year Janina Clark looks back to see whether its predictions were correct.
A higher profile needed.
Congratulations are in order for Swiss Re, which was the only financial services company in the top ...
New NMA chairman.
The Lloyd's Underwriters' Non-Marine Association has elected Bill Rendall as chairman for 1999, succ...
Appointments at Hamilton Barr.
Travel insurance specialist Hamilton Barr has made two new appointments to its sales team. Sarah Hil...