All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 13 2012 // Aon Benfield announced two new appointments within its Asia Pacific division.Henry To will become non-executive chairman for Greater China. To has been with the firm for 30 years, having served most recently as chief...
Jan 3 2012 // The pace of filings of class actions under federal securities and commodity laws held relatively steady in 2011 as compared to the previous three years, according to a new report.But there has been a substantial shift in...
Dec 28 2011 // The 153 members of the World Trade Organization agree on two things: We’re in a hole. And we must keep digging.The hole is the Doha Development Round, a decade-old negotiation that was billed as the next stage of...
Dec 16 2011 // Owners of thousands of U.S. homes tainted with foul-smelling Chinese drywall agreed to a legal settlement on Thursday with a German manufacturer.An attorney for the plaintiffs, Russ Herman, said the settlement reached with...
Dec 16 2011 // Have you ever wondered how modern-day fire departments began? Or why agents buy E&O coverage? What about when the first business owners policy launched? These are just a few questions that Insurance Journal and Claims...
Dec 16 2011 // Ten years ago, foreign insurers were lining up to celebrate China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, eager to tap what was certain to become the world’s next big insurance frontier.A decade on, it is...
Dec 16 2011 // Liberty Mutual consolidated its specialty construction operations and appointed James Conroy senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for construction, Liberty Mutual commercial markets.Previously, Conroy was...
Dec 15 2011 // The Liberty Mutual Group announced that its provincial branch in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province in China has “commenced operations and issued its first insurance policy on December 2, 2011.”Liberty received the...
Dec 13 2011 // As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S....
Dec 12 2011 // Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming.A...
Dec 7 2011 // The China General Chamber of Commerce – U.S.A. has honored Maurice R. Greenberg for his contributions toward U.S. and China exchanges. The organization’s Win-Win Award was presented to the insurance executive at...
Dec 7 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B++’ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb” of China Taiping Insurance (NZ) Limited (CTINZ), both with stable outlooks. Best said the...
Dec 7 2011 // Ten years ago, foreign insurers were lining up to celebrate China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, eager to tap what was certain to become the world’s next big insurance frontier.A decade on, it is...
Dec 7 2011 // A court in southern China has rejected a lawsuit by Apple Inc, accusing a Chinese technology company of infringing its iPad trademark, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest move in a protracted tug-of-war over the...
Dec 7 2011 // A natural catastrophe in China on the scale of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami would have an even more severe impact on supply chains, given China’s critical role in global manufacturing.That is according to a...
Dec 5 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (China) Company Limited (ADIC), both with stable...
Dec 5 2011 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp., has launched its China Property & Casualty Insurance and Reinsurance Market Report, which,” it said “reveals the...
Dec 5 2011 // China“If China opens the market, I don’t expect to see a big impact in the short term. It takes time for foreign insurers to steal market share from big players like PICC or Ping An.” —Zeng Sufen, an...
Dec 5 2011 // A new settlement has been reached with Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin (KPT) over defective drywall manufactured by the company in China. The Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC), the Homebuilder Steering Committee (HSC)...
Nov 30 2011 // Foreign insurers will have to answer for themselves whether their disadvantaged position relative to domestic insurers in China is outweighed by the country’s very substantial overall market growth, according to...