October 2005/2

The US commutation Rendez-Vous - organised by the UK run-off firm Cavell and the US run-off association AIRROC - looks set to attract more than 200 delegates to its inaugural event later this month in New Jersey.

The former GoshawK chief executive Chris Fagan is set to acquire the run-off Bermudian reinsurer Overseas Partners Re Ltd (OP Re) with backing from Japanese private equity house Nikko Principal Investments Ltd.

Supporters of solvent schemes of arrangement have received a series of welcome boosts following July’s High Court refusal to approve the British Aviation Insurance Company (BAIC) scheme, citing concerns that some policyholders were not being given...