Insurance
-
Lloyd’s earns thumbs up from survey
Insurance brokers are significantly more positive about conducting business at Lloyd’s of London than two years ago, according to the…
-
CRE’s holiday plans and summer publishing schedule
The Commercial Risk Europe team will take a well-earned break in late July and early August.
-
Battle lines drawn for Solvency II as QIS5 published
CEIOPS has issued the technical specifications for QIS5, its final field test for Solvency II if all goes to plan,…
-
Vigilance needed to meet terrorism threat
The last few years have seen a relative dearth of terrorist attacks in the developed world–but the threat of a…
-
Non-life insurers need higher prices and interest rates claims Swiss Re
World insurance premium volume fell in 2009 by 1.1% on an inflation adjusted basis with non-life business performing relatively well,…
-
Insurers should be penalised for late payments says AIRMIC
Insurance companies in the U.K. that are slow to pay claims should expect to pay damages to their clients, according…
-
French actuaries told to prepare to become CROs
French actuaries should position themselves to take over the role of Chief Risk Officers at insurance companies because the Solvency…
-
Hurricane Alex heads for Texan and Mexican coasts
Hurricane Alex, which has intensified from a tropical storm overnight, is expected to reach landfall later today or tomorrow morning…
-
Insurer reminds buyers to remember their role in disclosure
The U.K. insurance buyers community is right to call for greater clarity and updated rules on disclosure because the century-old…
-
CEA tells G-20 not to confuse insurers with banks
The Comité Européen Des Assurances has stepped up its ongoing campaign to pressure political leaders to understand the difference between…
-
Terror cover rises in popularity in the U.S. as prices fall
U.S. insurance buyers continued to buy more terrorism coverage in 2009 as prices fell and capacity rose, according to a…
-
Catlin is latest to announce plans to form Swiss reinsurer
Bermuda-based insurance company Catlin Group has announced plans to form a reinsurance company in Switzerland, hot on the heels of…
-
Corporate round-up
The latest merger and acquisitions, new products and appointments from the European commercial insurance and service sector.
-
Budgetary pressures could affect response to terror attack
Heads of all the national terrorism insurance programmes member countries that make up the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development,…
-
Food industry guidelines to reduce heart disease aimed at producers
The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has produced guidance for the food industry and government to…
-
Link between brain tumours and mobile phones inconclusive, says study
After ten years of research, conducted in 13 countries, and costing approximately €19.2m so far, the largest case control study…
-
First AIRMIC Casualty benchmark completes suite
AIRMIC unveiled the results of its first-ever benchmarking study into the Casualty insurance market at its conference this week, which…
-
Business warned to maintain vigilance on terror risk
The last few years have seen a relative decline in terrorist attacks in the developed world, but the threat of…
-
AIRMIC unveils plans to tackle ‘failings’ in law on disclosure
AIRMIC will issue a guide for members in early Autumn to tackle what it sees as the failings in the…
-
French risk managers digest challenges posed by ELD
French risk managers are fast waking up to demands placed upon their companies as they attempt to meet new environmental…