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  • It was a bittersweet week for MMC in its negotiations with US regulators to settle the investigations and allegations into the firm’s past business practices. On the one hand, the broking giant entered into an agreement with the National Association...
  • One month ago it looked like overall capacity would be down at Lloyd’s next year, now with the market changed by Hurricane Katrina the reverse could be true. Although total industry losses and individual insurer losses caused by Hurricane Katrina...
  • Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has added to fears over Advent Underwriting Ltd’s ability to weather its substantial Hurricane Katrina losses by placing its B (average) rating on the company’s Syndicate 780 on review for a possible downgrade.
  • Following the news that the first Hurricane Katrina lawsuit had been filed against insurers in the US (see Insider Week No. 191), law firms have begun to brief insurance clients in earnest over the challenges they will face in the likely deluge of...
  • Risk modelling experts Eqecat released estimates of between $11-19bn for the offshore energy and commercial flood damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Although the estimates are outside of Eqecat’s usual scope, the company said it was responding to...
  • Ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has confirmed that its ratings and outlook on legal expenses insurance underwriter DAS remain unchanged. This follows the suspension of members of DAS’s senior management team, after it emerged they were...
  • Three Japanese insurers will receive large cash settlements from Deloitte & Touche LLP because of the company’s auditing role in the collapse of controversial US aviation reinsurance company Fortress Re.
  • Ratings agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s (S&P) have delivered contrasting responses to Bermudian reinsurer Montpelier Re’s successful $600mn fundraising exercise to fill the hole left by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flood losses.
  • Marsh & McLennan (MMC) has reached agreement with more than 30 US insurance regulators over alleged fraud and anti-competitive practices. The charges were levelled by New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer and New York State Insurance...
  • The (re)insurance industry has continued its assessment of the likely financial impact of hurricane Katrina, the category 4 storm that brought devastation to New Orleans and the US South late last month.