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June 2007/3

  • Dominic Fodera, a former director of failed Australian insurance company HIH, has been jailed for two years for authorising a prospectus with a material omission.
  • Lloyd's insurer Novae has entered the UK property market with the appointment of an ex-Wellington Underwriting team.
  • UK broker COBRA Holdings has announced its intention to seek admission to the AIM stock exchange with a planned £10mn float.
  • BP Marsh & Partners plc, the London-based investor in specialist insurance and other financial services, has revealed a 15.4 percent growth in its net asset value last year.
  • Converium Holdings has announced that its chief risk officer, Markus Krall, will leave at the end of June citing personal reasons.
  • Bermudian (re)insurer Validus Holdings Ltd has increased the size of its pending initial public offering (IPO) to $350mn following its $382.2mn acquisition of Lloyd's based Talbot Underwriting Holdings.
  • Airline rates witnessed double-digit falls for the eight consecutive month, with lead hull and liability premiums down an average of 18 percent during May, according to a report by Aon.
  • DUAL International, the fast-expanding financial and professional lines underwriting agency, is to part company with its chief executive James Gerry following his resignation, The Insurance Insider understands.
  • The National Association of Insurance Commissioners said that it will step up its efforts to overhaul reinsurance regulation in the US before addressing the collateral charges faced by alien reinsurers.
  • Catlin Underwriting Agencies CEO, Paul Jardine has been elected as the new chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) to replace ACE Europe’s CEO and chairman Andrew Kendrick.
  • Alliant Insurance Services Inc became the latest US insurance broker to succumb to overtures from private equity investors when it confirmed last week that it had agreed to a takeover from The Blackstone Group.
  • Lloyd's announced last week that it is to return to the debt markets with a benchmark issue of between £300-500mn in Tier 1 perpetual subordinated debt.