The number of individual investors in Lloyd’s syndicates, known as Names, continues to decline, falling from 2,852 last year to...
International & Reinsurance News
Chubb Corp. is reportedly still interested in acquiring London-based specialty insurer Hiscox Plc, despite the rejection of a friendly offer...
The long wait is finally over, as more than 300 million people in 12 member countries of the European Union...
The brush fires raging near Sydney, Australia’s largest city, (See IJ Website, Dec. 27) continued to burn out of control...
A.M. Best Co. assigned an A- (Excellent) initial financial strength rating to World-Wide Reassurance Company Ltd. (WWR), U.K., which is...
The obstacles separating the consortium led by American International Group and South Korea’s Hyundai Securities have proven more intractable than...
A.M. Best Co. has assigned an indicative financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) to Danish Re Bermuda Ltd., “a global...
Germany’s Allianz AG, the world’s largest insurer, measured by gross premiums written, will launch a revamped division, Allianz Global Risks...
Standard & Poor’s announced that it has assigned its double-‘A’-minus insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings to newly created...
Over 100 brush fires, fanned by high winds and temperatures exceeding 100°F, continue to ravage the suburbs of Sydney, Australia’s...