November 2009/2

A hard core of companies who wrote reinsurance on the Sempra liability programme are continuing to resist payment, though no party in the acrimonious stand off has yet...

Scottish Lion appeal fast-tracked in bid for certainty while Minster scheme continues.

Time last year, as the financial crisis went global, credit spreads were ballooning, banks were crumbling and insurance companies were suffering heavy losses on...

Despite a 15 percent recovery in shareholders' funds in the first nine months, Berkshire Hathaway shows little sign of getting its appetite back for cat reinsurance.

Strong trading at Q3 but how will its credit/political risk exposures develop?

(Re)insurers are not banks, says Geneva Association; Axa on M&A trail with EUR2bn rights issue; Hedge fund takes Glacier reins; IPC gains boost Validus and Max profits...

A lot can happen in four years but, one way or other, Royal Bank of Scotland will have sold its P&C insurance operations, RBS Insurance (RBSI), by 2013.

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) highlighted the important role of microinsurance "as a means of socio-economic development" at its annual conference.

US insurers Seaton Insurance Co and Stonewall Insurance Co's long-running case against Randall & Quilter (R&Q) founder Ken Randall is approaching appeal.

French reinsurance group Scor is understood to be contemplating a new cat bond in the Atlas series, while leading ILS manager Goldman Sachs is working on three ILS...

Malawi and Caribbean countries may be the next to access the World Bank's new ILS template for developing nations, after the $290mn MultiCat Mexico 2009 transaction closed.

In a landmark decision, a UK High Court Judge has ruled that Berkshire Hathaway’s run-off vehicle Equitas may recover reinsurance losses based on modeled calculations of the notorious LMX spiral from Randall & Quilter (R&Q)-owned reinsurer Brandywine.