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  • The wildfires that raged through Australia earlier this month will lead to insurance losses of at least $505mn (A$790mn), according to estimates.
  • Florida's regulators approved State Farm's controversial plan to withdraw from the Sunshine State's property insurance market within two years.
  • Bermudian reinsurer Platinum Underwriters posted solid 2008 results last week, which saw it navigate the dual trials of Hurricane Ike and the second half investment meltdown relatively unscathed.
  • The much-anticipated European industry-wide loss index has drawn closer to fruition with the Swiss incorporation of Perils AG, a firm established to aggregate European windstorm exposure and loss data.
  • Swiss Re's share price plunged 19 percent last week as investors digested the replacement of the firm's CEO, the widely expected downgrade by Standard and Poor's and a poorly-received analysts' conference call with its board of directors.
  • Stanford Financial Group, the banking and investments group at the heart of $8bn fraud allegations from US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), bought directors' and officers' liability insurance (D&O), Bankers’ blanket bond insurance (BBB) and errors and omissions (E&O) cover in the London Market through global insurance broker Willis, The Insurance Insider can reveal.
  • Swiss-headquartered Paris Re's hopes for reinsurance price hikes at the key 1/1 renewals were not fully realised as it reported only "meaningful increases" in loss-affected classes, while loss-free programmes were either flat or with “very moderate” increases.
  • Bermudian (re)insurer IPCRe saw its 2008 operating income fall by a relatively modest 19 percent to $258.7mn, compared to $317.9mn in 2007, as it revealed a loss ratio for the year of 40.2 percent.
  • Goldman Sachs’ recommendation last week to short the highly-valued Amlin plc and go long in rival Catlin was criticised last week by Investec Securities’ insurance analyst, Tim Young.
  • Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer has announced that 61.55 percent of qualifying shareholders took up their rights in its £75mn share placing leaving 70 million shares, equivalent to a 13 percent stake in the firm, to be placed with shareholders and other institutional investors".