International News for December 2002

• SAI-Fondiaria Merger Completed; Premafin to Sell Shares
• Chinese Regulators Ease Rules on Air-accident Insurance
• $1.2 Million for Damaged Rembrandt
• Chubb Merges Argentine Units
• Report Japanese Insurer Files Suit against Fortress Re and Accountants
• SCOR Completes $390 Million Capital Increase
• The St. Paul Will Delist London Shares; Best Affirms Int’l. Unit ‘A’ (Excellent) Rating
• HCC Closes Acquisition of Dickson Manchester
• SPIR Meets Increasing Demand for Terrorist Cover
• Report Fitch Puts Chilean Insurers on Watch
• HSBC to Buy Singapore Insurer
• Trenwick Finalizes Agreement With Lloyd’s Letter of Credit Providers
• A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of AGF, Groupama
• PXRE Concludes $194 Million Catastrophe Reinsurance Deal to Increase Underwriting Capacity
• Deloitte & Touche Withdraws ESG Re Audit Reports in Dispute over Contract w/ ACE
• China to Allow Non-Life Companies to Sell Flight Insurance
• Skandia Agrees to Sell U.S. Operations to Prudential for $1.26 Billion
• SAI-La Fondiaria Merger Approved – On Condition
• Endurance Plans $200 Million IPO
• Swiss Re Appoints Ann Godbehere as Chief Financial Officer
• Lloyd’s Welcomes Four New Brokers
• A.M. Best Affirms GCNA ‘A’ (Excellent) Rating, Upgrades U.S. Sub to ‘A-’
• Endurance Specialty Holdings Forms U.S. Subsidiary
• Bermuda Insurers Join Inreon Reinsurance Trading Platform
• Henning Schulte-Noelle to Step Down As Allianz CEO
• Preliminary Swiss Re sigma Report Confirms 2002 “Below Average” Year for Catastrophe Losses
• R&SA Names Andy Haste as New CEO, John Napier as Chairman
• AXA’s German Division in Talks to Sell Austrian Operations
• A.M. Best Affirms Zurich Financial Services ‘A’ (Excellent) Ratings
• HCC to Acquire Lloyd’s Specialty Broker Dickson Manchester Ltd.
• Lloyd’s Appoints Faraday’s Rolf Tolle as Franchise Performance Director
• Fairfax to Restructure TIG Insurance
• Luxury Cars Lost in Channel Sinking Valued at $48 Million
• A.M. Best Lowers Rating of Steamship Mutual
• ING sells Fatum Operations to Guardian Holdings Limited
• S&P Takes Favorable View of Trenwick’s Financing Agreement
• A.M. Best Assigns ‘A-’ (Excellent) Rating to Aspen Insurance Limited
• SunCor to Join sEnergy Mutual Group
• SCOR Closes Rights Offering, Raises $387 Million
• Martin Hudson Named CEO of The St. Paul at Lloyd’s
• Lloyd’s 2003 Capacity Over $22 Billion
• S&P Lowers Munich Re Ratings to ‘AA+’
• Converium Files Amended Registration Statement to Sell $201 Million in Notes
• A.M. Best Affirms Rating of Hang Seng Insurance Company
• Report Rx for European Insurers Financial Health – $18 Billion Asset Sale
• Swiss Re Panel Sees Modest Economic Growth, Continuing Hard Market
• Angry Reaction from Bermuda on Calls for S&P 500 De-listing
• Insurers Show Increasing Use of Enterprise Risk Management to Address Pressing Business Issues
• Mark Wigmore to Head St. Paul Re Runoff Operations
• S&P Upgrades Hong Kong’s CIRe Rating to ‘A-’
• SCOR’s Kessler Confident Insurers Will Weather Current Crisis
• Cox Turns Down Takeover Bid from Wood Group
• Trenwick Gets Agreement “in Principle” for 2003 Lloyd’s Funding
• A.M. Best Affirms Munich Re’s ‘A++’ (Superior) Rating
• Worst Fires in 30 Years Ring Sydney
• A.M. Best Affirms Swiss Re A++ (Superior) Financial Ratings, Downgrades Debt Ratings with Negative Outlook
• Fitch Affirms Generali ‘AA’ Rating, Revises Outlook to Negative
• Insurance Journal Online Getting Worldwide Attention
• Lloyd’s CEO Explains Reforms to Royal Institute
• A.M. Best Affirms ‘A+ (Superior) Rating of HDI and Hannover Re
• Equitas Reports Six-month Results
• New Swiss Re Study Finds Lowest Growth in Premiums Since 1980′s
• AMP to Cut 1900 Jobs at Pearl, Reduce U.K. Operations
• S&P Upgrades Korea’s LG Insurance to ‘BBB’
• ESG Re Auditor Resigns, Nasdaq May De-list Shares for Late 10-Q Filing
• Consob to Rule on SAI-La Fondiaria Merger by End of this Month
• S&P Affirms Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Co. Ltd. ‘A’ Ratings
• New Oil Slick Set to Hit Spanish Coast
• SCOR Confirms Renewal of Letters of Credit
• WSJ Says European Insurance Stocks Due for Rally
• Trenwick to Suspend Preferred Share Dividends
• Benfield Group Plans London Share Listing

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