October 2007/5

Gen Re's victory last week in its dispute with Arch Capital Group over the poaching of a thirty strong facultative team will encourage employers concerned about their intellectual property walking out of the door.

The third annual Rendez-Vous of the Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Run-Off Companies' (AIRROC) last week proved a perfect time to look back at how a number of recent transactions have benefited the sector.

Guy Carpenter is likely to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit launched earlier this month by Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal that has accused the broker of violating the state’s anti-trust and unfair trade practices acts...

A US securities-law case, currently being heard in the Supreme Court "could be the legal equivalent of Hurricane Katrina" for professional liability insurers, according to William Wilt, analyst at Morgan Stanley.

As reinsurance market practitioners gathered in the town of Baden Baden this weekend, German reinsurance giant Munich Re boldly stated that, for the 1 January 2008 renewals, it predicts markets to be "harder than expected" in certain sectors of the indust

Lehman Bros has been given the green light by the Financial Services Authority to begin trading at its subsidiary Libero Ventures Ltd - a new unit that aims to improve capital efficiency for (re)insurers by shifting exposures to the capital markets.