Reinsurance
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.
The future of modern ART.
How much of the reinsurance market will become 'non-traditional'? Adrian Leonard asked industry leaders for their predictions.
New millennium, new strategy.
Axa Re's Jean-Marie Nessi and Adrian Ballardie reveal details of a radical change of direction for the company to Janina Clark.
Carole Nash encourages employees.
Specialist motorcycle intermediary Carole Nash is encouraging one of its employees to get covered in...
BRIT awards itself new name.
Benfield Reinsurance has relaunched itself as BRIT Insurance following the aquisition of a 29.99% st...
Launch of Home Repairs Log Book.
Anna Ryder-Richardson, presenter of the BBC's Changing Rooms, knows a good idea when she sees one, w...
Centrica picks Aon.
Aon Consulting has been appointed by the energy and service group, Centrica, to administer its pensi...
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...