November 2004/1

As third quarter results filter through from US and Bermudian property casualty (re)insurers, the full impact of the season's quartet of hurricanes is becoming clearer, with interim results hit hard across the board. Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan a

MMC to lose thousands of staff In late September, senior Marsh executives from the broker's executive liability arm FINPRO met at a restaurant in New York to be told the broker would be making over a thousand redundancies which would include losses fro

Regulators' probes extend to yet more established methods; MMC's actions may prove decisive in preserving status When Kelvin Mackenzie, the legendary head of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun, sacked the newspaper's astrologer after he was accused of "r

Evidence suggests the cumulative effect of the US storms may reach $30bn Foresight is something the global reinsurance industry would love to possess but, in the absence of catastrophe astrologers, it has to rely on more conventional methods, such as c

Marsh was the most successful - if that is the correct phrase - broker to charge insurers' contingent commissions because it was the most organised. Unique among the multinationals, Marsh had created a focused market-facing arm - Marsh Global Broking - wh

Lloyd's announced on 10 November that it had successfully set terms for its £500mn subordinated debt issue after an extensive road show that took it to investors in the UK and continental Europe.

SEC and Department of Justice launch separate, renewed investigations into PNC and Brightpoint transactions; PR firm slammed for 'Talking Heads' ruse... Fresh from fending off accusations of PSA-related bid-rigging and fraud, world's largest insurer AI

In our regular monthly News Digest, we round up key stories from the last month, presenting them to you in easily digestable snippets.

David Schiff looks at financial strength... Insurance stocks are not as richly priced as they were in 1998, when investors and insurance-company CEOs alike seemed to believe that an insurance-company charter guaranteed a fifteen-percent return on equit

MMC’s difficulties extend overseas with financial irregularities in Marsh Ireland and the sacking of a senior employee in Marsh Ltd for “misconduct” Marsh's Irish subsidiary Marsh Ireland has revealed that it has a EUR6.7mn hole in its accounts - more

Earlier this month, Florida's attorney general Charlie Crist became the latest US regulator to open an investigation into alleged bid-rigging and insurance commission arrangements. Crist's office said that he had subpoenaed 10 insurance brokers: MMC,

In our regular monthly News Digest, we round up key stories from the last month, presenting them to you in easily digestable snippets.