Julian James, Head of Lloyd’s worldwide markets, said that while he saw no “major insurance claims” arising from California’s current...
International & Reinsurance News
The International Panel on Climate Change, meeting in Shanghai, reported that the global warming trend was increasing more rapidly than...
Talks between Chinese and World Trade Organization negotiators in Geneva appear to have stalled due to the inability to reach...
Key Takeaways Agency size isn’t the deciding factor for an agency management system, but workload and complexity are. A one-person...
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...
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...
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...