International & Reinsurance News
Five Japanese life insurers say they may buy more unhedged foreign bonds, believing that the yen is likely to weaken...
Standard and Poor’s threatened to cut Japan’s sovereign credit rating again, warning the huge cost of last month’s devastating earthquake...
Weather Service International [WSI] forecasters predicted an active 2011 Atlantic hurricane season Tuesday, with 15 named storms, eight of which...
Attempting to predict the future, rather than imagining possible versions of it, may have blinded risk analysts to the likelihood...
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon Corp., in the UK, has been appointed the global insurance...
A new special report, compiled by A.M. Best, concludes that the string of major catastrophes, a persistent soft market and...
French reinsurer SCOR is set to pay $913 million for most of Dutch insurer Aegon’s Transamerica Reinsurance operations. When concluded,...
Somali pirates have freed a Greek-owned, Cyprus-flagged ship they seized in January after receiving a ransom payment, the pirates and...
Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone Monday on an intensive land-and-sea...