US insurers weather the storm… for now
26 April 2006
Sound risk management and strong investment results enabled US general insurers to weather record catastrophe losses last year…
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Slight dip for US rates
26 April 2006
Commercial property/casualty rates in the US were flat or fell slightly during the first quarter of this year, according to an industry survey…
Conference marks centenary of the Big One
19 April 2006
The global insurance industry has gathered in San Francisco to take part in the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference – the largest earthquake conference ever held…
Insurers quit cover over New York hurricane warning
19 April 2006
A major US insurer has responded to expert advice that a hurricane could strike New York by declining to renew cover for thousands of homeowners in the most exposed…
Katrina insurers compared to Nazis
19 April 2006
Nearly eight months after Hurricane Katrina devastated large areas of the gulf states, debates over what policyholders were covered for are becoming a public issue…
Lloyd’s survives Rita, Wilma and Katrina
11 April 2006
It’s the first annual loss recorded since 2001, but Lloyd’s of London says its £103 million ($247 million) deficit represents a strong performance for 2005…
Greenberg case delayed
11 April 2006
New York Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer has initiated so many prosecutions in the US insurance market that one of the cases has to be delayed because it overlaps another one…
National US regulator on the cards
11 April 2006
Two US senators are keen to shake up the national insurance industry, introducing a bill to create a new federal regulatory system…
Zurich ordered to pay up
04 April 2006
Zurich Financial Services Group has agreed to pay $US153 million ($214 million) to settle allegations of bid-rigging and improper use of finite reinsurance to resolve investigations…
UK regulation costs outweigh benefits
04 April 2006
The cost of regulation of general insurance in the UK for consumers is £400 million ($965 million) a year, according to new research from the Association of British Insurers…
Brokers provide good fee disclosure
04 April 2006
A recent survey conducted by the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in the UK reveals an increase in broker transparency over remuneration…
Succession plan is in place, but Buffett stays put
28 March 2006
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett is staying in the chair…
Aviva bid rejected
28 March 2006
The £17 billion ($41.9 billion) bid by UK insurance giant Aviva to take over Prudential has been withdrawn after Prudential refused to enter into talks…
Independent trial begins
28 March 2006
Three former directors of collapsed UK insurer Independent have attended the preliminary hearing into their charges of conspiracy to defraud, marking the first step in a trial…
Silverstein battles the Governor
21 March 2006
New York property developer Larry Silverstein, who fought long and hard for extra payments from insurers for the destruction of the World Trade Centre towers, is now having trouble…
Zurich reaches bid-rigging settlement
21 March 2006
Zurich American Insurance has reached a US-wide settlement of $US171.7 million ($236.6 million) with nine US state regulators over bid-rigging and price-fixing allegations…
Munich Re and AIG survive the storms
21 March 2006
It may have suffered significant exposure to the devastating North American hurricane season, but the world’s largest reinsurer is still well in the black…
A need for commission disclosure
21 March 2006
UK insurance brokers could soon be finding themselves having to disclose their commission earnings when arranging cover…
S&P’s UK outlook remains stable
21 March 2006
Standard & Poor’s has maintained its stable outlook on the UK’s general insurance industry…
Spitzer moves on to life cover
14 March 2006
New York Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer – the man responsible for uncovering unsavoury practices in the US general insurance industry over the past two years – is now focusing…