October 2003/1

As long as average CEOs are paid as if they were superior CEOs, the issue of executive overcompensation won't go away. Where CEO pay is out of alignment with long-term corporate results, shareholders will not remain complacent. How, during the past two de

Dick Grasso, who by most accounts did a good job of running the NYSE, was forced from his position because he was paid so much that it became an embarrassment to his organization and to the board of directors that paid him so much money. David D 'Aless

Mike Hammond the former chief executive of broker Marsh's UK operations is to join rival Jardine Lloyd Thompson, it was revealed last month. Staff at JLT were told of the move by senior management and the news ended months of speculation over Hammond's

CNA Financial Corporation became the latest insurance Group to exit reinsurance when revealing that it has sold the renewal rights, together with much of its under-performing reinsurance book, to Folksamerica Reinsurance Company, a unit of Bermudian based

Embattled UK insurer Royal & Sun Alliance breathed a corporate sigh of relief this month after its £1bn rights issue went through with 92 percent of the 1.3bn new shares subscribed for by existing shareholders at 70p each. Although heavily discounted

Followers of US tort reform developments were teased this month with the prospect of a real breakthrough, as Republican Senator Bill Frist stepped in to rescue stalling asbestos talks, negotiating a new deal between insurers and industrial defendants over

Defunct Australian insurer HIH has won partial access to pleadings and legal information from AIG subsidiary Lexington Insurance Company to help advance possible fraud allegations against the broker JLT. HIH applied to the High Court following the Ju

$550mn start-up hit by breach of contract ruling The Quanta start-up story took a new turn last month when it emerged that Thomas F. Taylor, the former CNA executive vice president, who was to head up the E&O operation at Bermudian headquartered start

Lloyd's insurer Omega Underwriting Agents was forced to scale back its 2004 expansion plans following the failure of some members agents to fully support its ambitions. Nevertheless, the manager of Syndicate 958 will still expand its 2004 capacity by

Lloyd's personal accident market is braced for claims relating to the 3 October mauling of Roy Horn, one half of the stage act Siegfried & Roy, by a white tiger at the Mirage hotel, Las Vegas.

October was another eventful month for beleaguered Lloyd's insurer GoshawK, yet its future looks no less certain. Chief executive Chris Fagan denied suggestions that the management were considering a buy-out - telling The Insider “there is no truth in

ACE's Syndicate 2488 underwriter Andrew Kendrick has been promoted to the role of president and chief executive officer of ACE Bermuda, replacing the current incumbent Mark Herman. Currently president of ACE Global Markets and a director of ACE INA UK