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Aviation
Airlines fleet values rising as confidence returns
Airlines predict a 13% increase in passenger numbers in 2011 compared to a predicted 9% fall at the same point last year as confidence returns to the market, according to…
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CRE Insurance
New security challenge for gas market risk managers
Risk managers with Europe’s gas companies face a further significant addition to their workloads following the move by the European Parliament yesterday to adopt the Security of Gas Supply Regulation.
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Climate Change
Munich Re takes centre stage in Monte Carlo with oil rig plan
Munich Re announced an ambitious plan during the Monte Carlo reinsurance market Rendez-Vous to open talks with the US government about the creation of a new facility to deliver liability…
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Benelux
Liability to expand in Europe despite recent caution
The breadth of legal liability and levels of compensation across Europe are likely to increase in due course, along with a more standardized approach to liability, according to a Guy…
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CRE Insurance
Surplus capital continues to drive cat reinsurance rate decline
Global catastrophe reinsurance rates have continued to decline throughout 2010 despite the first half of the year being one of the costliest on record with surplus capital the main driver,…
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CRE Insurance
New EU rules will ‘name and shame’ less safe shipping companies
The European Commission has adopted new rules to enhance and improve the safety performance of ships, which will include the introduction of an online register to 'name and shame' shipping…
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CRE Insurance
Quinn Insurance Ltd. gets red light
Quinn Insurance Limited [QIL], which went into administration last March, has been refused re-entry into the UK commercial insurance market by Ireland's Financial Regulator [FR] due to a lack of…
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CRE Risk Management
Institute of Risk Management makes four board appointments
The Institute of Risk Management [IRM] has announced four key appointments to its board.
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CRE Insurance
A journey into the unknown
Partnership between risk ‘owners’, brokers and carriers, transparency and how to tackle emerging risks were the dominant themes at this year’s DVS Symposium in Munich. CRE Editor Adrian Ladbury asked…
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CRE Insurance
Prices stable but outlook cloudy
European commercial insurance buyers should be relatively happy with the news from the annual reinsurance market Rendez-Vous in Monte Carlo this year as the reinsurers and brokers appear to have…
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Association News
DVS 2010
CRE brings you all the latest news from the DVS Symposium 2010 via our show daily newspapers. Produced in Munich as the conference unfolded they bring you all the developments…
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Association News
DVS seeks new president as Sigulla crosses the divide
Stefan Sigulla, President of the DVS and Managing Director of insurance at Siemens, confirmed this morning that he will leave Siemens to join Hannover-based HDI-Gerling Industrie as a main board…
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Association News
AON’s Case defends GRIP and transparency
Risk and insurance managers are ‘overwhelmingly’ in support of Aon’s Global Risk Insight Platform (GRIP) despite alleged fears about the cost charged to users and data security, Aon CEO Greg…
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Association News
Solvency II to impact German reinsurance buyers at renewal
Demand for more catastrophe reinsurance and a continuation of the gradual shift from proportional to non-proportional covers by German insurance companies is likely at this year-end renewal because of the…
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CRE Insurance
ECIROA joins IAIS to push global programmes plan
ECIROA has joined the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) as an observer to help it pursue its effort to find a solution to the problems associated with global programmes.
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CRE Insurance
New Zealand quake will have limited impact on insurers
The damage costs resulting from the earthquake that struck the New Zealand city of Christchurch on September 4 will have only limited negative implications for insurers in New Zealand, according…
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CRE Insurance
Credit agencies fear stormy seas ahead for reinsurers
Rating agencies warn of rough times ahead for the global reinsurance market as catastrophe losses, excess capacity and a benign pricing environment combine.
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Association News
Partnership and clarity needed now
Greater transparency between insurance buyers, brokers and carriers and the inclusion of a far wider net of experts, within both corporations and insurers, are needed to push back the barriers…
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Association News
DVS members expect stable or even improved terms at year-end renewal
German industrial insurance buyers are in confident mood as preparations begin in earnest for the annual insurance renewals according to Commercial Risk Europe’s survey of DVS members carried out shortly…
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New dawn for credit insurance
Last year, and the year before, saw trade credit insurance on the front pages for all the wrong reasons. Huge losses in the market, limits culled, prices up, cover withdrawn…