All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 30 2015 // In an attempt to deploy excess capital, some major European insurers have developed overseas operations over the past several years but are now taking a more cautious approach, as not all overseas strategies have proven...
Sep 29 2015 // Volkswagen announced plans on Tuesday to refit up to 11 million vehicles and overhaul its namesake brand to try to move on from the scandal over its cheating on diesel emissions tests.New Chief Executive Matthias Mueller...
Sep 29 2015 // John Elkann, the leader of Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family, has a way of preparing his relatives for a big takeover battle that you won’t see at your everyday company.In June, he gathered two branches of the...
Sep 25 2015 // The confession of cheating that’s embroiled Volkswagen AG in one of the biggest scandals in auto industry history came on a cool California morning, on the sidelines of an academic conference focused on green...
Sep 25 2015 // Zurich Insurance Group announced that it has been selected as the insurance associate to CityMobil2, an EU-funded research project that is staging tests of automated road transport systems with self-driving buses across...
Sep 24 2015 // National authorities in the European Union will have to submit to binding arbitration if they can’t decide whether to apply the bloc’s new rules on simple securitizations to a transaction, a European Commission...
Sep 22 2015 // ACE Group announced the appointment of Paul Littooij, currently marine manager for ACE in Benelux, to the additional role of European product champion, Small Marine Commercial, as it continues to expand its team to better...
Sep 21 2015 // The European Union is preparing reduced capital requirements for insurers in a bid to spur investment in long-term infrastructure projects.The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is considering amending...
Sep 18 2015 // This wrap-up of recent intellectual property cases covers chocolate bar shapes, cookware designs, sneaker similarities, Korean TV copyright device, Quizno’s commercials, personal transporter technology, Oscar award...
Sep 17 2015 // National promises to cut emissions as part of preparations for a United Nations summit at the end of the year would cap global warming at the unacceptably high level of 3 degrees Celsius, the UN’s climate boss said...
Sep 9 2015 // XL Catlin has announced a new insurance leadership team for Germany. The integration process is now well underway across XL Catlin, with the company maintaining a strong focus on bringing together and retaining its top...
Sep 8 2015 // Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, has published a survey, which concludes that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of insurance executives believe a UK exit from the European Union would be bad for...
Sep 7 2015 // Commercial insurance rates continued their global decline in the second quarter of 2015, a trend driven by an abundance of global capacity and a lack of large insured loss activity, Marsh said in its latest Global...
Sep 4 2015 // The monthly report for August from Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting catastrophe model development team cites the “severe drought conditions” in the western U.S. as resulting in “economic losses...
Sep 3 2015 // National plans for limiting greenhouse gas emissions fall short of tough action needed to slow climate change under a United Nations agreement due in Paris in December, European researchers said on Wednesday.The plans...
Sep 2 2015 // European insurers’ assets under management jumped 9.4 percent to €9.9 trillion ($11.15 trillion) in 2014 from a year earlier, trade body Insurance Europe said on Tuesday, mainly driven by increased investment by...
Aug 31 2015 // Hamilton Underwriting Limited, the Lloyd’s managing agency of Bermuda-based holding company Hamilton Insurance Group, has hired Trevor Carvey as head of treaty.Carvey will report to Dermot O’Donohoe, chief...
Aug 28 2015 // Investors hunting for yield after a global financial rout might well take a detour to the headquarters of a tiny insurance company hidden away along a highway in west Dublin.Just as world markets cratered on August 24,...
Aug 27 2015 // European re/insurers are well positioned to withstand the current volatility in the stock markets, having made significant changes to their investment portfolios since the global financial crisis of 2008, as well as the...
Aug 25 2015 // ANV Underwriters, the international managing general underwriter (MGU) segment of global specialty insurance group ANV, has appointed Christina Lippert as professional lines underwriting manager for Europe.Based in...