Reinsurance
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...
Barclays' safe fund.
Barclays Global Investors intend to launch a new traded endowment policy fund which offers high capi...
Jack Miller files his final story.
John (Jack) Miller, the crime reporter and insurance journalist has died at the age of 87, writes Hu...
Eleven in the dock over £2.5m claims fraud.
Eleven defendants appeared at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday charged with conspiracy to defraud. ...
PPP's aid for IFAs.
PPP Lifetime Care has announced enhancements to its products to give IFAs more flexibility when prot...
Son's Nazi lawsuit.
A French Jew whose parents died in Auschwitz death camp during WWII is suing the French government a...
Gun manufacturers under fire from lawsuits.
Whether the gun industry will follow the example of the tobacco industry in being held responsible f...
Toplis director dies.
Mick McTernan, an associate director of McLarens Toplis, Birmingham, died suddenly on Wednesday 16 D...
Prime Health launches GP advice line.
Prime Health has launched a GP advice line for policyholders in response to the results of a survey ...
French SCOR in Russia.
French reinsurance giant SCOR last week announced it had opened a new office in Moscow in line with ...
Ambassador, professional, gentleman.
Ray Hill, president of the Chartered Insurance Institute in 1993-94 and group chief executive of Iro...
Premium Search duo snap up AGF direct arm for £5m.
Former Premium Search duo David Pearce and Philip da Silva have bought AGF's help direct insurance o...