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  • Industry give cautious welcome to US Court decisions which reign in excesses of the Wall Street litigation; $1bn settlement removes 309 IPO companies from “laddering” litigation Insurers exposed to the myriad of US shareholder class action suits were
  • Lloyd's (re)insurer Chaucer has written to Names increasing the offer for unaligned 2004 capacity on its proposed merged Syndicate 1084 from 7.5p to 11p per £1. Chaucer upped the offer after its initial 21 June proposal met with little enthusiasm from
  • Lloyd’s insurers are continuing to expand suggesting 2004 capacity will exceed £15bn Lloyd’s capacity should breach the £15bn barrier next year as managing agents continue expanding their capital bases to take advantage of the ripe trading conditions.
  • Start-up changes advisers while debating merits of Lloyd's over company Illium Insurance, the proposed UK liability start-up headed by respected ex Limit stalwart Denis Burniston and Russell Benzies, has applied to form a new Lloyd's Syndicate to begi
  • Damning judgment involving "grave dishonesty" and "corruption of standards" In one of the industry's most eagerly awaited judgments in modern times, Sphere Drake has avoided over $250mn of exposures after broker Stirling Cooke Brown was lambasted by a
  • After an epic dispute that began in early 1999 with the Unicover fall-out, Odyssey Re predecessor Sphere Drake was victorious in the UK High Court earlier this month against the disgraced carve-out brokers SCB. It was one of the most eagerly awaited indus
  • Compulsory terrorism cover will begin later this week (1 July) in Australia, after The Terrorism Insurance Act received Royal Assent on 24 June.
  • AIG’s move to buy Japanese life and selected US p/c insurance operations from General Electric Capital (GEC) for $2.1bn has been met with a cautious affirmation from ratings agency Moody’s.
  • Despite growing concerns that US property & casualty rates are tailing off, Swiss Re senior economist Thomas Holzheu predicted last week that rates will continue to remain firm while profits remain hampered by poor investment returns and reserving issues.
  • Bermuda’s Everest Re Group has paved the way for fundraising by filing with the SEC last Friday to periodically sell up to $975mn of shares.