More than 300,000 people died in natural and man-made catastrophes in 2004 – the tsunami in the Indian Ocean alone...
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About 11,000 people would die and Japan as a whole would suffer about $1.06 trillion in economic damage if a...
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has raised its long-term counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Nisshin...
European January reinsurance renewals confirm A.M. Best Co.’s expectations that underwriting discipline is being maintained, despite wide capacity availability. The...
The “Kyoto Protocol” or Treaty, a global agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses, has come into force seven years after...
Munich Re announced 2004 net earnings of 1.8 billion euros ($2.34 billion), confirming its earlier revised estimates of between $2.22...
Insurance can provide unique and important benefits to a society, but those benefits cannot be realized unless markets are liberalized,...
Swiss Re’s chief economist Kurt Karl endorsed the 25 basis point (bp) Federal Reserve increase in the target fed funds...
MetLife, Inc. and Citigroup Inc. today announced an agreement for the sale of Citigroup’s Travelers Life & Annuity, and substantially...
France’s AXA Group reported from Paris that its consolidated revenues were 72.2 billion euros ($94.4 billion) for full year 2004....