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  • Equitas announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2004 on 8 June, revealing a £296mn increase in gross discounted reserves for asbestos claims. Accumulated surplus after tax fell £67mn from £527mn to £460mn, but the reinsurer's solvency
  • Following its rival ACE, XL Capital announced plans to raise over $600mn through the sale of 7mn ordinary shares in the light of the improving rating environment.
  • German insurer Allianz received another boost today as rating agency Fitch upped its long term rating from A- to A, and affirmed its financial strength ratings at A+.
  • Australian insurer QBE Insurance Group has confirmed a privately placed $550mn offering of hybrid notes to institutional investors.
  • Quoted Lloyd’s insurer Heritage Underwriting Agency can merge its two trading syndicates despite the opposition of members’ agency Hampden Agencies Ltd.
  • AIM-listed Lloyd's insurer Heritage Underwriting Agency plc has bolstered its ranks with the hire of international general liability underwriter Mark Aaron from ACE.
  • In a coup last week UK life insurer Prudential poached Tidjane Thiam, head of European operations at rival Aviva, to replace its outgoing finance director Philip Broadley.
  • Legislation curbing the appetite of the US plaintiff bar to launch obesity class action suits took a step closer to reality after a US House of Representatives committee recommended the proposals to a formal vote.
  • Against the backdrop of US tort reform, some US insurers are lobbying to increase Equitas’ burden of asbestos claims, warned the run-off reinsurer’s new chief executive Scott Moser last week.
  • Analysts applauded Munich Re’s announcement last week (26 February 2004) that it would effectively dilute its shareholding in HypoVereinsbank (HVB) by not participating in the bank’s current equity issue.