March 2012/3

A $67bn derivative lawsuit filed by shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is unlikely to result in a major loss for international directors' and officers' (D&O) insurers, despite being the largest ever civil lawsuit filed in Japan

Transatlantic Re's executives are in line to receive $29.4mn of windfall payments connected with the company's sale to Alleghany, regulatory filings suggest.

Opportunist carrier Berkshire Hathaway wrote the quota-share retro deal that helped preserve the loss-hit Asia Capital Re (ACR)'s crucial A- rating, The Insurance Insider understands.

Carlson continues Omega stake building; Tucker "dismayed" by Solvency II; Fondiaria EUR1.1bn capital raise; AmWINS not for sale: CEO; Aon move backed; Capita blue; Sants goes early; Dewey's dozen; Goldberg expands; Scor upgraded; $110mn Asia terror consortium; HDI-Gerling London appointment

Hannover Re leaving Germany? That's almost as unthinkable as Lloyd's not being "of London" or Aon moving from Chicago.

P&C heavyweights ZFS, Chubb and Aviva are poised to renew more than $5bn of excess-of-loss (XoL) reinsurance limit on 1 April, but continue to be overshadowed by the loss-struck Japanese programmes