Latest Reinsurance Headlines
All the headlines from our Reinsurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
S&P Uneasy About State of Global Reinsurance Industry
May 16 2000 // The string of catastrophes in 1999—the worst year on record for the frequency of natural disasters—has hit the reinsurance industry solidly. This was compounded by weak premium rates, and retrocession recovery...
PartnerRe/SCOR Finalize Life Reinsurance Sale
May 16 2000 // Confirming the plans revealed last month, Bermuda’s PartnerRe said that it had reached agreement on the terms for the acquisition of its U.S. subsidiaries, PartnerRe Life Insurance Co., Republic Vanguard Life...
S&P Places Reinsurer ESG on Watch Negative
May 15 2000 // Standard & Poor’s CreditWatch announced that it had placed the counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings of European Specialty Reinsurance Group (ESG Re Ltd.) on credit watch with negative...
1999 Financial Results Expose Another Rough Year for Insurers
Apr 24 2000 // The results are in for the property/casualty industry’s fourth quarter and year end, and they don’t look any better than 1998. In fact, with the exception of a small acceleration of premium growth, 1999 was...
PartnerRe to Sell U.S. Life Operations to SCOR
Apr 13 2000 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe announced that it has reached an agreement with France’s SCOR Group to sell its U.S. life reinsurance business, PartnerRe Life Insurance Company of the U.S., and its subsidiaries Vanguard Life...
Australia Juggles Mergers & Disasters
Apr 3 2000 // Driven in part by 1999’s particularly poor results, and perhaps encouraged by the recent mega-merger announcements from Europe (CGU-Norwich Union and Deutsche Bank-Dresdner Bank), Australia’s insurance/...
Munich Re at Impasse with Regulators over Holocaust Claims
Apr 3 2000 // The dialogue between the California Department of Insurance (CDI) and Germany’s Munich Re came down to a legal standoff in March with respect to the reinsurer’s perceived delays in turning over documents...
The Unraveling of Superior National
Mar 30 2000 // Editor’s Note: This article was written by Standard & Poor’s analyst Darin Feldman, and is printed with permission. In its 1998 annual report “Survival of the Fittest,” Superior National...
New Global Insurance & Claims Service Launched
Feb 25 2000 // A new company will be launched in May 2000 called dotRisk Limited. It will offer insurance placement, claims handling and a claims trading marketplace. dotRisk’s focus will be business-to-business exchanges and will...
Loss Forces Re-Australia To Run Off Book
Feb 21 2000 // Large losses have reduced Reinsurance Australia’s capital to the point that it no longer meets the requirements for its Australian reinsurance license, thus forcing the company to formally stop writing new...
Tempest Re Appoints New Head
Feb 7 2000 // Tempest Reinsurance Co. Ltd., subsidiary of ACE Limited, announced the appointment of Wayne A. Daniel to head the London office, which oversees European and Asian operations. He is expected to head the expansion of...
XLMO’s Keeling Comments on Reinsurance Renewals
Jan 5 2000 // XL Mid Ocean Re’s CEO, Henry C.V. Keeling, speaking during an investment conference call organized by Merrill Lynch, said he believes that “excess of loss reinsurance pricing increased in line with the...
