Somali pirates are increasingly using hijacked merchant vessels with hostage crews as giant motherships to attack deeper into the Indian...
International & Reinsurance News
UK-based specialist insurer Amlin plc announced that a wholly owned subsidiary has entered into an agreement to acquire Lead Yacht...
Martyn Perryman has been appointed Sales and Marketing Director for Willis UK & Ireland (WUKI), effective immediately. He is based...
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has reacted quickly to the disastrous flooding in the State of Queensland earlier this...
Lehman Brothers Holdings has been sued by a reinsurer that wants control of $450 million it said it pledged to...
Yesterday Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it had lowered its sovereign rating on Japan to ‘AA-‘ from ‘AA’....
Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced that during the January 1, 2011 treaty renewal season it “expects to write and bind approximately...
XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of the XL Group, announced the appointment of Cristiana Báez-Safa as Chief Underwriting Officer...
Ironshore Inc. has named P. Donald Harkey to head the Political Risk unit for Ironshore Europe Limited, based in Dublin....
World leaders warned on Thursday that soaring food prices risked stoking unrest and even war, but top executives meeting in...