News/Reinsurance
Engestrom to Tempest.
Property catastrophe reinsurer Tempest Re has appointed John Engestrom as president and chief execut...
Reinsurers forced to take the controls.
As losses mount and fragmentation persists in the primary market, airline reinsurers are taking action to stabilise plunging rates. Adrian Leonard reports.
AIRMIC risks big changes.
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers has revealed plans to radically overhaul its annual c...
And this year the nominations are ...
The judging panel for the British Insurance Awards certainly had its work cut out this year. A re...
24-hour claimsline.
Berkshire broker Norman Insurance aims to improve its customer service with the launch of a new Prop...
View with a Room.
Atrium Cockell Underwriting (Lloyds Syndicate 609) is installing new software solutions from Room Un...
Merged mutuals worth over £7bn.
The unification of two German mutuals has created the country's third biggest non-life insurer. H...
Bouncing back?
Primary insurers have been spoilt with cheap rates for laying off risk, but for how much longer. John Burke reports.
Deal to swell Lloyd's fund to £800m.
Lloyd's has strengthened the mutual fund that backs all its policies by arranging £500m ($800m) of c...
Reinsurers sink in workers' comp pool.
The unravelling of the reinsurance spiral behind the Unicover workers' compensation pool that broke ...
Playing chicken in space.
The space insurance sector has become "an elaborate game of chicken played by chunks of corporate ca...
A matter of size.
The scope of a big company or the benefits of a smaller operation? Adrian Leonard hears both sides of the 'size matters' debate.
Unicover - Danger: soft market.
Lawyers who have been struggling to find productive uses for their time since Lloyd's reconstruction...
June rendez-vous.
The third international Cavell Communications Rendez-Vous will be held from 7-10 June at St Andrew's...
Elements cause £650m claims.
The new Guy Carpenter Catastrophe Index reveals significant property damage from atmospheric events ...
They're in the money.
The insurance industry was well represented in this years Rich List with 18 industry workers featuri...
Post Magazine sponsors Adam Richardson.
Post Magazine-sponsored speed king Adam Richardson raced to fourth place in the second round of the ...
Cut-throat rates will sink marine.
Cut-throat rates for the marine market would be its undoing, claimed the Institute of London Underwr...
RBC opens in Ireland.
RBC Insurance, the insurance arm of the Royal Bank of Canada, is to open a reinsurance subsidiary in...
UK's LTC report gets cool response.
The report of the UK Royal Commission set up last year to study the problem of funding care for an a...
Hannover Re shares increased.
Shares in German reinsurer Hannover Re increased by just 5.7% in 1998, after an astonishing increase...
Lloyd's learns to think out side the box.
The long-time leading provider of innovative insurance products is having to catch up with the newest thinking. Adrian Leonard looks at the development of ART at Lloyd's.
Scor strong in tough year.
Strong growth in life and health and non-traditional reinsurance business bolstered the performance ...
Time to XL in life?
XL Mid Ocean's Henry Keeling talks to Janina Clark about a possible foray into the life market, the Nac Re deal and XL's newest business unit.