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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…
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CRE Insurance
Sullivan returns at Willis in charge of global solutions unit
Willis Group Holdings today announced the appointment of former AIG chief executive, Martin J. Sullivan, as Deputy Chairman of Willis Group Holdings PLC and Chairman and CEO of a new…
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CRE Insurance
EC consults on pan-European contract law
The European Commission held the first meeting of business, consumer and legal practitioners’ groups yesterday to discuss the possibility of a pan-European contract law system.
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Benelux
Talks finally begin to clear up global programme uncertainties
The European Captive Insurance and Reinsurance Owners’ Association has opened talks with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors to try and deliver more certainty for buyers of global insurance.
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CRE Insurance
Make hay while the sun shines in German corporate insurance market
Commercial insurers and analysts agree that the soft market that German industrial insurance buyers have enjoyed for so long looks set to continue, despite combined ratios that are nudging 100%,…
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Association News
Onwards and upwards
Communication and winning greater support and participation of individual members remains the number one priority for FERMA according to President Peter den Dekker, Adrian Ladbury reports.
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CRE Risk Management
Your profession needs you!
This issue of Commercial Risk Europe carries the first three roundtables in our series that form the basis of our annual Risk Frontiers survey of the market and much of…
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Let the people speak
Commercial Risk Europe is currently compiling its first annual survey of Europe’s leading risk and insurance managers to find out what they really want and how the insurance sector can…
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Association News
Land, bread and freedom-UK
The first roundtable to form part of CRE’s annual Risk Frontiers survey of Europe’s leading risk managers was held with leading members of AIRMIC, the UK risk management association, at…
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Association News
Recovery? What recovery?-Belgium
The Belrim roundtable, sponsored by XL, took place not far from the Battlefield of Waterloo, site of the final defeat of Napolean in 1815. CRE Editor Adrian Ladbury found participants…
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Association News
Time to roll up your sleeves-Netherlands
Risk managers in the Netherlands are more internationally focused than many others in Europe because of the historic trading position of their country. During this roundtable discussion held in Noordwijk…
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Steadfast Competitor-Jens Wohlthat
Adrian Ladbury met Jens Wohlthat, member of the board responsible for International Operations at HDI-Gerling, and asked him about the state of the industrial risk market in Europe, emerging risks…
