RM News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Onwards and upwards
Communication and winning greater support and participation of individual members remains the number one priority for FERMA according to President…
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Your profession needs you!
This issue of Commercial Risk Europe carries the first three roundtables in our series that form the basis of our…
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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…
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Recovery? What recovery?-Belgium
The Belrim roundtable, sponsored by XL, took place not far from the Battlefield of Waterloo, site of the final defeat…
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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…
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Educating upwards
CRE Editor Adrian Ladbury interviewed Peter den Dekker, President of FERMA and Corporate Insurance Risk Manager for Stork BV, in…
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Portuguese and EC authorities look to extreme fire mitigation including goats and expropriation
[LISBON]—DAMAGE caused by forest fires in Portugal has risen again in 2010, reaching the highest levels in five years and…
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Chinese companies must up risk game–Marsh
Chinese companies that expand into Europe face an entirely different regulatory and business environment that means they must pay closer…
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DB contributions ‘drastically’ cut by multinationals–Mercer
Companies are ‘drastically’ cutting back on contribution rates to their Defined Benefit (DB) schemes as part of the redesign of…
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Urgent overhaul of benefits risk needed according to Mercer survey
A large majority of multinational organisations fear that their corporate governance structures need to be updated to meet existing and…
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Boom time for actuaries and solvency experts
Hard evidence is mounting that now is the age of the actuary as the European insurance market steps up efforts…
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Bermuda captive premium falls but assets healthier
The Bermuda captive insurance market, the biggest in the world, unsurprisingly showed a fall in gross premiums written last year…
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Confusion reigns in Spain over environmental liability
Spanish companies are seriously ill-prepared for the expected rise in environmental liabilities following the introduction of the Environmental Liability Directive…
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Court ruling re-fuels contingents debate
U.S. and European insurance buyers will be pleased to hear that a U.S. federal appeals court has decided to restore…
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FERMA names new team at the top
Julia Graham of the U.K. and Jorge Luzzi of Italy have been named as Vice Presidents of FERMA soon after…
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All rosy in the U.K. insurance buyer’s garden
U.K. insurance buyers will have left the AIRMIC 2010 conference in Manchester relieved to hear that the cost of coverage…
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AIRMIC bangs the drum
There wasn’t a cloud in the sky over Manchester during the recent AIRMIC conference, and the same could be said…