Reinsurance
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 ...
ACE clinches deal to buy Tarquin.
ACE has has bought holding company Tarquin in a move that will increase its management capacity to 9...
Live global 2000 link.
Guy Carpenter is conducting a live worldwide video conference on Year 2000 Countdown today (Thursday...
US reinsurers' $5bn.
A group of 42 American property-casualty reinsurers wrote $5.06 bn of premiums during the first thre...
Reanalysis - Catastrophes - Insured catastrophe losses halved.
Last year saw insured losses from catastrophes fall by 50%, according to Swiss Re's latest sigma rep...
Harding claim to go down in history.
Legal experts have warned insurers to brace themselves for the biggest compensation claim in history...
Green Flag to the rescue.
Sometimes you win when you lose and Nottinghamshire league side Blidworth Welfare were finally given...
Appointment at Sedgwick Noble Lowndes.
M Jean-Pierre Thomas and M Arnaud Clement-Grandcourt have joined Sedgwick Noble Lowndes' Paris offic...
Sick of looking for medical cover?
Hannover RE has published a guide to help IFAs find their way around the medical maze. The Guide ...
A warm welcome.
With 10,000 participants and an array of seminars and workshops RIMS is now a must for the insurance industry. Janina Clark provides a guide to the event.
Gentia system launch.
The first automated performance management system for large companies has been launched by Gentia So...