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  • In a deal with European private equity firm Astorg Partners unveiled last week, Willis neatly avoided the $400mn sword of Damocles that has hung over the company's balance sheet in the form of a financial obligation to consolidate its French broking affiliate Gras Savoye.
  • JLT energy broking partner Paddy McMurray is to join acquisitive international wholesale energy broking venture Alesco, The Insurance Insider has learned.
  • ILS pioneer Swiss Re has increased the size of its Vita IV extreme mortality cat bond to $75mn and its Successor X US wind and quake transaction up to $120mn, due to investor demand.
  • In a key example of the challenges service providers have been posed by the global economic downturn, Navigant Consulting's (re)insurance service line is set to be discontinued in the coming months.
  • Flagstone Re's US wind and quake cat bond Montana Re has increased in size by $55mn to $175mn during the marketing phase, with high investor demand pushing pricing to the low end of guidance, our sister publication Trading Risk has learned.
  • Shipowner mutual the London P&I Club will push for a 5 percent annual premium increase, as the P&I sector finds its feet after the 2008 financial crisis and members grapple with the world trade slump.
  • Scor said last week it will appeal a EUR18.6mn fine levied by the Spanish National Commission for Competition for allegedly participating in a cartel that fixed prices for construction defect insurance in Spain.
  • US financial watchdogs have heaped further criticism on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRNY) for its handling of last year's near-collapse of American International Group (AIG).
  • US national insurer State Farm's Texan subsidiary, State Farm Lloyds (SFL), was ordered last week by the state's insurance commissioner, Mike Geeslin, to repay home insurance policyholders $310mn in excess charges that go back six years.
  • The market for microinsurance - insurance for low income individuals in the developing world - has the potential to reach as many as 3 billion people and generate premiums of up to $90bn, although it won't happen overnight.