June 2011/4

BMS lures Guy Carp exec for US push; JLT gets life in Basel; Generali Group MD elected CEA president; European premium growth in good health; Japan insurers stable; Zurich goes to Brazil; State Auto Q2 storm losses; Canopius bolsters global property team; Eurotunnel dispute withdrawn; QBE's aviation head takes off; Zurich in $115mn Malaysian move; Liberty Mutual rating boost; SII to change asset management; Gallagher acquires Floridian P&C outfit; Sciemus engineers stake in data provider; K

The management of Equity Syndicate Management Ltd (ESML) Syndicate 218 received a hostile reception from Names and other capital providers at its London AGM today (20 June).

When Omega's board convened in Bermuda last week one item on the agenda was the relative merit of competing takeover proposals.

Let's begin today with a rhetorical question: since when did the global (re)insurance industry become the patron saint of employment lawyers?

Aon's dispute with US specialty broker Alliant became increasingly acrimonious last week as the defections continued from its West Coast construction business.