The St. Paul Companies’ reinsurance unit, St. Paul Re, has joined the inreon platform, launched last December by Munich Re...
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Equitas, the reinsurance vehicle set up by Lloyd’s to cover the potentially huge liabilities for environmental and asbestos claims, reacted...
On April 16, London-based Benfield Greig Group plc and E.W. Blanch Holdings Inc. of Dallas announced an agreement on merger...
The British government’s Human Genetics Commission called for a three-year ban on the use by insurers of genetic test results...
Lloyd’s announced that its old general website designation – www.lloyds.com – has become “An internet portal that will give insurance...
Of the six new brokers admitted to Lloyd’s select fraternity five are based outside of the U.K., marking the first...
CNA’s maritime division announced that it will begin a pilot program of a system that “enables OMMni.com, the automated ocean...
The ongoing controversy in the U.K. over the use of genetic testing by the insurance industry took a new turn...
Last Thursday’s announcement that Michael Bright, the founder and CEO of the U.K.’s Independent Insurance Co., had resigned has ignited...
Parts of Europe continue to be ravaged by two devastating livestock diseases: foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), or hoof-and-mouth; and bovine spongiform...