Reinsurance
Reinsurer on a roll.
Hannover Re has now completed three securitisations of life and health reinsurance. Steffen Buetow and Regine Kielich explain the company's pioneering refinancing deals.
Reinsurance index 1999.
A complete listing of all the news, features and reports in last year's issues of Reinsurance.
French insurers may fold.
Insured losses in France from the European storms Lothar and Martin at the end of 1999 will exceed t...
IPC to close UK office
IPC Holdings is to shut its UK contact office, IPCRe Services, blaming the move on consolidations amo...
Virgin firms in tax probe.
Four international adjusting firms operating in the Virgin Islands have been investigated for allege...
Deal puts syndicate at risk.
SmithKline Beecham's captive syndicate 1250 at Lloyd's could be under threat following the pharmaceu...
Insurers welcome drug research
The insurance industry has welcomed government plans to research into the effects of driving under th...
Cigna accused of breaking law.
US giant AIG is suing Cigna and a former subsidiary INA, claiming they broke California law by estab...
Spratt Insurance joins Open and Direct.
Belfast financial services firm Open and Direct has reeled intermediary Spratt Insurance into its em...
Support for Names shows at Lloyd's elections.
Elections to the Council of Lloyd's have revealed support for the continued existence of Names, it i...
Lloyd's Council election results
Graham McKean, chairman of Ballantyne, McKean & Sullivan and Paul Archard, managing director of PXRe ...
Reliance settlement.
New York-based Reliance Group has reached a legal settlement with insurance and reinsurance companie...
Internet to put jobs on the line.
Most life offices expect the Internet to totally transform the way they do business and result in wi...
Chatset forecasts Lloyd's losses
Lloyd's is unlikely to return to a reasonable profit until 2002-03 and faces a loss of almost £500m (...
Brit details succession
Brit Insurance Holdings, the specialist Lloyd's insurer and reinsurer has appointed Jo Welman as its ...
Bell & Clements goes provincial.
Lloyd's broker Bell & Clements has moved into the UK provincial market with the acquisition of busin...
Forecasters predict less hurricane activity.
US reinsurers can look forward to less hurricane activity this year than last if the early forecasts...
American Re secured against cats.
American Re Securities has closed a $182m issue of catastrophe-related securities to protect America...
Max Re seeks capitalisation to open in Bermuda.
A new Bermudian reinsurer, Max Re, was due to be capitalised late last month, ready to start writing...
Ren Re and Overseas.
Bermudian reinsurers Overseas Partners and Renaissance Re have gone into partnership to underwrite p...
Paying for inattention.
In the light of Aneco Re v Johnson & Higgins, John Butler considers a broker's liability for breach of duty.
RAA admits brokers.
The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) has voted to allow reinsurance brokers as affiliated me...
One of a kind.
Lloyd's may only have one captive so far, but it is adamant that its unique advantages mean that more will soon follow. David Fanning reports.
Third for Hannover.
Hannover Re has completed a third securitisation of life and health reinsurance business worth EUR50...