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  • Atrium Underwriting today (5 December) reported its latest forecasts for 2003 and 2004 years of account on syndicates 570 and 609 and updated its hurricane losses for this year. The account year forecasts for managed syndicates are materially...
  • Pressure is growing on senior management at Bermudian (re)insurer XL Capital after recent comments by equity analysts and rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) – which last Monday (28 November) downgraded the company by a notch from AA- to A+.
  • French (re)insurer SCOR will take up membership of the pools Réunion Aérienne and the Réunion Spatiale on 1 January 2006. SCOR, whose application to join the pools was accepted in November, will take a 5 percent share of each pool.
  • Loss adjusters Crawford & Company announced that it has purchased a 26 percent interest in loss adjusting and claims settlement firm Indian Puri Anuj & Associates. The move is expected to provide additional service delivery capabilities to support...
  • Aon is to close six of its UK offices over the next year as part of the broker’s previously announced major restructuring drive that is set cost 750 jobs in the UK. The offices in Canterbury, Cardiff, Liverpool, Norwich, Plymouth and Shrewsbury are...
  • Brit Insurance has become the latest (re)insurer to raise capital in expectation of 2006’s improved underwriting conditions. The firm announced that it has agreed to raise £150mn tier two long-term subordinated debt. As well as enabling Brit to take...
  • Despite raising sufficient capital to ensure a capacity of £150mn on its Syndicate 780 next year, Advent Capital has seen ratings agency Moody’s downgrade its rating on the syndicate following the devastating losses from this year’s storms.
  • Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has reduced its stance on Wellington Underwriting Agency’s Syndicate 2020 following the sudden increase in its estimates to Hurricane Katrina. “The downgrade follows the Nov. 24, 2005 announcement of a 69 percent increase to...
  • Validus Reinsurance Ltd, the Bermudian reinsurance start-up backed by the former MMC chairman and chief executive Jeffrey Greenberg, is set to go live later this week after raising $1bn in equity financing, Insider Week understands.
  • Rating agency AM Best is set to seal its stamp of authority on Bermuda’s “class of 2005” (re)insurers when it publishes inaugural financial strength ratings for a number of the start-ups in the forthcoming days. According to sources, AM Best is to...