The International Panel on Climate Change, meeting in Shanghai, reported that the global warming trend was increasing more rapidly than...
International & Reinsurance News
Talks between Chinese and World Trade Organization negotiators in Geneva appear to have stalled due to the inability to reach...
Britain’s Royal & Sun Alliance announced that loss estimates for the fourth quarter of 2000 are between £180 million ($267.5...
Preliminary estimates by local insurers have calculated insured losses from the earthquake in El Salvador at between $200 million and...
In an unusual move Bermuda-based Ace Ltd. issued a statement revealing a potential loss exposure of $140 million as a...
French aviation authorities have given Air France permission to fly one of its supersonic Concordes (at subsonic speeds) to an...
Standard & Poor’s international rating service quickly reaffirmed Barclays Bank’s “AA/Stable/A-I+” rating and life and pension insurer L&G’s ratings, “in...
Nevada-based TeleMedica Insurance Management announced that AXA Courtage had agreed to underwrite “a TIM-branded family of worldwide medical insurance plans...
CGNU, the U.K.’s largest insurer, reported reported that new global sales in the year 2000 increased 24 percent to £13.5...
Bermuda-based XL Capital Ltd. took another step in globally affixing the “XL Brand” to all its operations with the announcement...