October 2005/1

Shares in Bermudian insurer have dropped alarmingly by over 30 percent this month in the wake of substantial Katrina losses and poor results from the first-half of 2005. At the beginning of September shares in Goshawk were trading at over 36p on the...

Shares in Bermuda headquartered GoshawK slumped 18 percent to a low of 19.5 pence this morning (7 October) after the troubled reinsurer more than doubled its estimate of net losses stemming from Hurricane Katrina and said it would have difficulty...

Despite the estimated £1.4bn ($2.5bn) blow from Hurricane Katrina, Lloyd’s still expects to make a full year profit in 2005. This was one of the messages from Lloyd’s first ever interim results published this morning (6 October) which show a profit...

Ratings agency AM Best has placed the financial strength rating of “A-” (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Bermudian reinsurer Aspen Insurance Limited under review with negative implications.

Lloyd’s insurer Wellington Underwriting plc has become the latest company to increase its estimated loss exposures from Hurricane Katrina.

Aon UK has confirmed that it is to lose up to 750 jobs in a major restructuring of its Risk Services and Specialty divisions. As revealed by Insider Week on the 26 September, the broker is to place its employees into “consultation” which is expected...

Texan businesses that followed US government recommendation to flee from the advancing Hurricane Rita could now find they have no valid claim for Business Interruption.

Three US insurance executives who pleaded guilty to charges arising from New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer’s investigations into the industry will not be sentenced until next year after the presiding judge postponed his decision. Former Marsh...

Converium has renewed its fronting arrangement with Berkshire Hathaway’s National Indemnity Company and Munich Re which enables the Swiss Reinsurer to continue as a member of the aviation pool Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers Ltd until...

AM Best has placed Bermudian reinsurer RenaissanceRe and its subsidiaries under review with negative implications for financial strength and debt ratings. The rating review follows the company’s receipt of a Wells Notice from the Securities and...

Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings has become the latest company to face the prospect of a downgrade by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, after it today (3 October) revealed its estimated net losses from the hurricane and...

The threat of a Post-Katrina liquidity crunch has grown as the rating agencies have become more aggressive in responding to the industry’s exposures to the loss. Initially, rating agencies such as Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and AM Best appeared...