Reinsurance
Benfield & Rea Investment Trust.
Lloyd's corporate investor Benfield & Rea Investment Trust (Brit) is seeking to become an insurance ...
Ace buys more Lloyd's capacity.
Acquisitive Bermudian insurer Ace has bought all the ordinary share capital of Limit (No.9) Ltd, a c...
New Lloyd's agency.
Omega Underwriting Agents, a new Lloyd's managing agency, has been formed to manage syndicate 958, w...
New IIL officers.
The Insurance Institute of London has elected Dieter Losse, deputy chairman of reinsurance broker Be...
A tale of three cities.
Adrian Leonard talks to Graham Dimmock of PartnerRe and SAFR about life in a global market.
Swiss Re's £6m deal.
Swiss Re New Markets has compled a new reinsurance transaction that provides £6m of risk protection ...
AIG muscles in on pensions with $18bn takeover.
The largest US Property and causality insurer AIG has entered the pensions market with the $18bn (£1...
Feeling hot, hot, hot we were not, not not.
Weather statistics released for July.
Hannover profits swell.
Record results last year saw Hannover Re's net profit climb 13.4% to just over £34m. The Group's gro...
Adam Richardson finished second.
Post Magazine-sponsored Porsche Carrera driver Adam Richardson stormed to a second position finish i...
Atrium merger agreed.
Atrium Cockell Group which manages two syndicates at Lloyd's (570 and 609) with a combined stamp cap...
Swiss Re tops life reinsurers after £1bn acquisition.
Swiss Re has splashed out over £1bn in order to buy the Life Re Corporation of Stamford, USA, to con...
Appointment at Venton Underwriting.
James Winn has been appointed deputy underwriter of Lloyd's non-marine syndicate 376, which is manag...
... but King acquitted.
Boxing promoter Don King has been acquitted on charges of attempting to defraud a Lloyd's syndicate ...
Falling off the dock of the bay.
New Orleans dock workers are the most accident prone in the United States. That is one one of the...
Three-month deadline set for global trading system.
The steering committee which has been set up to find a way to create a global insurance electronic t...
Omega Men move in.
A new Lloyd's managing agency, Omega Underwriting Agents Limited, has been formed to manage Syndicat...
When bad medicine results in casualties all round.
As the public become more aware of their rights, few professional fields are as vulnerable to massive litigation as healthcare. Francis Higney discovers what precautions are available to medics in the front line.
The Classic Porsche season reaches half-way.
The Classic Porsche season has reached the half-way stage, and despite a broken foot, Post Magazine-...
Ace buys into more of Lloyd's.
Bermudian insurance group Ace has continued its expansion at Lloyd's with the acquisition of Tarquin...
Buffett buys.
General Re General Re, the largest US reinsurer, has been bought by billionaire investor Warren Buff...
Hannover Re profits from Skandia acquisition.
German reinsurance group Hannover Re increased its profits by nearly 13% to DM 122m ($68m) in 1997, ...
Buyout makes Buffet world's biggest insurer.
General RE (GR) will continue to operate independently and be encouraged to expand its international...
Guide to DSS benefits.
Hogg Robinson Financial Services has published its annual guide to UK Social Security contributions ...