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  • Shares in US insurance giant Hartford Financial Services Group have slumped a further 15 percent today as investors react to fears over the company's exposure to troubled companies such as AIG and Washington Mutual.
  • Global (re)insurance stocks remained steady in early trading today (30 September) as news of the rejection by US Congress last night of the $700bn rescue package for the country's ailing banking sector sent tremors through global indices.
  • Heavy claims in the first half of 2008 have pushed the US property casualty insurance industry to an underwriting loss of $5.6bn for the period, and a combined ratio above 100.
  • Liberty Mutual Group has fought back against its downgrade by Standard & Poor's (S&P) following the closure of its $6.2bn acquisition of rival Safeco last week.
  • Both sides in the US taxation debate were quick to respond last week to proposed legislation aimed at levelling the playing field between foreign-owned and domestic carriers writing business in the world's biggest insurance market.
  • Lloyd's posted an interim profit before tax of £949mn for the six month period ending 30 June 2008, a fall of 47 percent against 2007's record figure of £1.8bn.
  • QBE Group has formally parted company with Tim Kenny, the head of its US operations, The Insurance Insider revealed last week.
  • Swiss Re has revealed lower-than-feared write-downs from its exposures to structured credit default swaps (CDS) as it posted mark-to-market losses of SFr245mn in July-August in its CDS portfolio and estimated further write-downs in September (up to the 19
  • American International Group Inc (AIG) expects to have a "for sale" list of assets drawn up by the end of this week (3 October), and may have executed transactions in that time frame, according to new chairman and CEO Edward Liddy.
  • Validus Holdings Ltd is in talks to buy Transatlantic Re from distressed insurance giant American International Group (AIG), The Insurance Insider understands.