If Fracking Is the Question, Insurers May Ask – What Is the Answer? June 19, 2014 By Stephanie K. Jones When it comes to the use of evolving technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas production...
Top Loss Leaders in the Oil Patch? Commercial Auto, Workers’ Comp June 18, 2014 By Stephanie K. Jones There’s no doubt that new advancements in the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are driving the current production boom...
Swiss Re Affirms Priority of Risk Management; Updates Procedures June 5, 2014 Swiss Re has published a report on the updates it has made in its Corporate Responsibility and Risk Framework applications....
Swiss Re Names Summerville Managing Director for Financial, Professional Services May 19, 2014 Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Jeff Summerville to be head of Financial and Professional Services in North America. In...
Africa Launches First Catastrophe Risk Insurance Pool May 16, 2014 By Wendell Roelf In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped galvanize...
Weakness in Pricing Lowers Reinsurers’ Q1 2014 Profits May 7, 2014 By Alice Baghdjian and Caroline Copley Swiss Re and Hannover Re, the world’s no. 2 and 3 reinsurers, said they saw lower prices in natural disaster...
Swiss Re Posts $1.226 Billion Q1 Net Income May 7, 2014 Swiss Re reported group net income of $1.226 billion for the first quarter of 2014, compared to $1.38 billion in...
Italy, France Threaten European Growth: Swiss Re Economist Kurt Karl April 1, 2014 By Carolyn Bandel The lack of structural measures in large economies including France and Italy present the biggest threat to growth in the...
Swiss Re to Comply with ‘Excessive Compensation’ Rule; Sets Special Dividend March 18, 2014 Swiss Re announced that its upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 11 April 2014, will include proposals from the Board...
Falling Reinsurance Rates Presage Sector Shake-out February 25, 2014 By Jonathan Gould A slump in reinsurance prices is playing to the strengths of the biggest global reinsurers, while piling pressure on smaller...