Adrian Ladbury
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CRE Insurance
S&P launches benchmark system to help insurance buyers compare performance
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Risk Solutions is launching a series of Insurer Performance Benchmarks (IPBs) that begins with…
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CRE Insurance
Lloyd’s reports record £3.9bn profit and vows to continue ‘hard slog’ in Europe
Lloyd’s of London, the international insurance and reinsurance marketplace, says it is determined to continue its efforts to break into…
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Association News
AIRMIC warns Commission Solvency II ‘out of all proportion’
AIRMIC, the U.K. insurance and risk managers association, has added its weight to the growing opposition to Solvency II, Europe’s…
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CRE Insurance
Industry leaders wary of the return of the wagging long tail
The news of the decision by AIG to boost its loss reserves for Chartis by $2.3bn in the last quarter…
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Pricing discipline will help boost U.K. insurers earnings says Fitch
Fitch Ratings has revised its rating outlook on the U.K. non-life sector to stable from negative based on the credit…
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CRE Insurance
Reinsurers say first quarter cats insufficient to turn market – just
As insurers and reinsurers worldwide continue to report strong 2009 full year results largely on the back of low catastrophe…
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CRE Risk Management
Russian insurance buyers may benefit from tougher licensing rules
The Russian parliament has proposed tighter licensing and merger regulations for the country's insurance industry, according to news agency Reuters.
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Non-life rates could rise by up to 20% because of tougher Solvency rules says CEA
Pressure on the architects of Solvency II, Europe’s planned new capital adequacy regime for the insurance sector, to relax recently…
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Benelux
Europe’s insurers face up to €3bn bill for storm Xynthia
Winter storm Xynthia will probably cost insurers between €1.5bn and €3bn for losses incurred in France, Germany, Belgium and the…
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Greenberg free to talk as AIG confirms further asset sales
Maurice R. Greenberg, the former Chief Executive of AIG, has stated that he believes he no longer faces possible criminal…
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European insurers eye Asian expansion in Prudential’s wake
Allianz, Axa and Zurich are believed to be keen to follow the path taken by Prudential of the U.K., that…
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CRE Insurance
Don’t let the politicians pass the ELD buck – Comment
There is no bigger supporter of cross-border efforts to try and save the environment from man’s rapacious appetite for natural…
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CRE Insurance
Flat market for corporate business forecast by major European carriers
During a series of interviews carried out with a group of executives from Europe’s leading industrial insurance carriers just before…
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Association News
RMIA outsources operations to ANZIIF to focus on growth
Australia’s risk management association has decided to relieve itself of administration but says the decision was made to improve services…
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Association News
New risks, new world
The French risk and insurance management profession set a big challenge for themselves and insurers during this year’s AMRAE conference…
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Association News
Mission Impossible? – Johny Merlot
Emerging risks and the ability of the insurance industry to rise to the changing risk and insurance needs of their…
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Association News
Business as usual… almost – Nicolas Aubert
Chartis’ French operation is one of the biggest and the longest-established in the group. Adrian Ladbury interviewed General Manager Nicolas…
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Association News
A Full Plate – Guy Soussan
Guy Soussan, Partner with Brussels law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP, is legal adviser to FERMA and has plenty of…
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CRE Insurance
Chartis bitten by 2002 and prior reserve addition as AIG posts year-end loss
Chartis, the global non-life insurance operation of AIG, reported a fourth quarter 2009 operating loss of $1.8bn that was driven…
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‘Fracking’ could free Europe from Russia’s stranglehold on gas, says UK politician
[DUBAI]—Europe could be self-sufficient on power from natural gas, and escape Russia’s supply-stranglehold, if energy companies in Europe follow the…