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July 2006/1

  • UK general insurer Aviva plc revealed today (7 July) that it is in talks with AmerUs Group over the potential acquisition of the $2.3bn or £1.3bn valued US life insurer.
  • New York based Tower Group Inc revealed on 6 July that it will write down $5.4mn on its balance sheet after commuting its outstanding liabilities with the near-defunct Bermudian reinsurer, PXRE Group.
  • Liberty Syndicates – one of the largest Lloyd’s (re)insurers – has parted company suddenly with its managing director Sean Dalton and head of underwriting Andrew Elliot, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
  • French (re)insurer SCOR has agreed to buy German life reinsurer Revios in a $775mn transaction.
  • Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc – the broking group in talks to take-over UK rival Heath Lambert Group – is to appoint a new finance director.
  • UK-listed broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT) has confirmed in a short statement to the London Stock Exchange this morning that talks are ongoing with rival Heath Lambert Group over a potential takeover.
  • ACE Ltd has finally received approval from the Pennsylvania insurance commission to spin-off some of its asbestos-riddled subsidiaries to the UK run-off company, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd.
  • A memorial service for the victims of the 7/7 2005 terrorist bombings in London will be held in the City on Friday 7 July.
  • Endurance Worldwide Insurance Limited, the London operation of the Bermudian (re)insurer Endurance Specialty Holdings, has gone live with Wildnet’s Wild Certainty system.
  • UK-quoted Hiscox Insurance Co has appointed Callum Taylor as Directors & Officers (D&O) underwriting manager.
  • Executives in the insurance sector predict consolidation will accelerate faster in international markets than in the United States, according to a survey by accountancy firm KPMG.
  • Bermudian (re)insurer Allied World Assurance Company (AWAC) has appointed Susan Morgan as its senior vice president of Ceded Reinsurance.