March 2006/3

The Insurance Insider’s 2006 market survey, in association with Salmon Ltd, will gauge the views of senior industry figures on the competitiveness of the London market at a time of extraordinary flux for the industry. It takes less than five minutes...

But share price suffers as plans for new holding company, FSA insurer and rights issue revealed... Lloyd’s insurer SVB Holdings plc has confirmed a scheme of arrangement to ring-fence past liabilities, with the creation of a new holding company...

UK regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it regards a healthy run-off sector as an essential part of the insurance market. Speaking at the Association of Run-Off Companies (ARC) Congress on 7 March, Julian Adams, head of...

London-based HSBC Insurance Brokers announced a restructuring on 2 March, with the creation of four core divisions reporting to chief executive Mike Dixon. The new structure sees Direct Client Solutions, International Solutions, Intermediary...

Andrew Askham, a colourful kidnap and ransom broker, is attempting a return into the London market The recent attempt by a colourful kidnap and ransom (K + R) broker to return to the London market has set alarm bells ringing on Lime Street.

Despite the demise of Kinnect, London’s back-office provider Xchanging is continuing to develop initiatives to help the market’s insurers reach the contract certainty targets agreed with the Financial Services Authority.

As first revealed by The Insurance Insider on 6 February, Lloyd’s has chosen the former head of the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) Dr Richard Ward as its next chief executive following the departure of Nick Prettejohn at the end of last year.

Months after Lloyd’s insurer Wellington Underwriting plc stunned shareholders with two loss updates in the space of ten days came the announcement that its chief underwriting officer David Foreman was to retire.

Hurricane-decimated Bermudian in talks to transfer ongoing business after downgrades. Embattled Bermudian reinsurer PXRE Group Ltd is pinning its hopes on Lloyd’s as part of a rescue plan that could see the group transfer its ongoing business to...

Attendees at the ARC Congress were given a stark warning over asbestos liabilities by lawyer David Gross of US firm Saiber Schlesinger Satz & Goldstein. Giving a presentation entitled “Toujour Asbestos: Will we ever be free of it?” Gross gave the...

The last month has seen several developments in the protracted and increasingly acrimonious divorce proceedings between American International Group (AIG) and the company's former chief executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg.

Supplementary benefits withdrawn for all but highest earners. Marsh UK is in the process of scrapping its final salary pension scheme for its staff and ceasing supplementary benefits for all but the highest earners, our sister title Insider Week...