Europe
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Run off from Solvency II?
Insurance buyers in Europe are worried that Solvency II will drive capacity out of their core industrial insurance lines. Derek…
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Bermuda market intensifies campaign for equivalence
European insurance and reinsurance buyers should support an effort by the Bermuda market to gain equivalent status under Solvency II…
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DVS to tackle emerging risks with insurance market
The apparent inability of the industrial insurance market to react to so-called emerging risks with innovative new covers was a…
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Bermuda market gives tentative welcome to new solvency regime
During a series of interviews with Bermuda market leaders Commercial Risk Europe found general support for the goals of Solvency…
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EU gathers oil industry for assurance on safety
EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger called a meeting of oil and gas production industry executives that operate in Europe and…
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Raising the professional bar
Carolyn Williams, Head of Thought Leadership at the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), told Ben Norris, about the importance of…
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Standard terms given green light from the European Commission
E.C. guidelines on horizontal competition will allow standard policy conditions so long as they are transparent, open and non-binding.
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A game of high stakes-Philippe Brahin
Philippe Brahin, Director, Head of Group Regulatory Affairs, at Swiss Re is one of the key players in an increasingly…
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Claims up but cover bought down in financial lines claims broker
European financial institutions are buying less insurance or decreasing their sums insured in an effort to reduce costs, despite an…
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Fighting fit-Gernot Klantschnig
Last year was a tough one for XL Capital as it strived to bounce back off the ropes after big…
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Energy rates head north as lawyers prepare for post loss bonanza
Energy market insurers have reacted swiftly to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig loss in the Gulf of Mexico and buyers…
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Reform of U.K. insurance contract law ‘some way off’, says Hertzell
The U.K.’s Law Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law, David Hertzell, believes that aspects of the current law that governs…
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Gauntlet thrown down to risk professionals by IRM’s Andrew Keeling
In the opening speech at this year’s Institute of Risk Management (IRM) conference in Keele, England, Andrew Keeling, the education…
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Torus swoops on Glacier subsidiary as deal flow steps up
Property casualty insurer and reinsurer Torus has acquired Glacier Insurance AG, a subsidiary of the Glacier group, subject to regulatory…
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Energy risk an increasing concern to business
Energy risks are of increasing concern to business and are now rated as big a risk as health and safety,…
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FERMA gives mixed reception to partial block exemption regulation
The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has welcomed the adoption of the new European Union insurance block exemption…
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Non-executives need more risk oversight claims Moore at IRM
Further organisational crises are inevitable unless significant improvements are made to corporate culture, ethics and governance, Paul Moore, the whistleblower…
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IGREA prepares to add political role to fast-growing agenda
IGREA, the association of risk and insurance managers within Spain’s largest companies that was formed last year, plans to step…
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New law sparks risk management education boom in Poland
Demand for risk management expertise is booming in Poland, as a law passed last year to make the adoption of…
