All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 29 2015 // The potential impact of climate change on the insurance industry was important enough for consulting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. to include the topic as a significant part of its recent 2015 Property and Casualty...
Jan 28 2015 // QBE European Operations, the group’s business insurance specialist, announced the appointment of Tom Johnson as Surety Underwriter within QBE’s Trade Credit and Surety department. He will take up his role in...
Jan 22 2015 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that “Allied World Europe will enter the marine liability market, which will further complement the company’s current marine cargo offering.”Allied...
Jan 20 2015 // The Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group, which operates P&C reinsurer Hamilton Re and the organization’s U.S. property casualty insurance operations Hamilton USA, announced that Dermot O’Donohoe, former...
Jan 16 2015 // As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into new markets and bolster effective delivery of innovative product and service offerings to clients around the world, AXA ART announced it has structured its global operating...
Jan 15 2015 // ACE Group has launched ACE Middle Market Solutions, an enhanced proposition for brokers and clients, designed to help continue building its position in the middle market segment in key Continental Europe insurance...
Jan 13 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide...
Jan 8 2015 // American European Group Inc. has hired Peter J. Livaich as senior vice president of its managing general agency subsidiary, AE Specialty Inc.Livaich will have overall leadership responsibility for Cherry Hill, New...
Jan 8 2015 // The killing of at least 12 people at a French magazine that received threats because of its depiction of Islam stands to exacerbate burgeoning anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe, political analysts said.The shooting by masked...
Jan 7 2015 // Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement through its subsidiary company Catalina Insurance Ireland Limited, with Quinn Insurance Limited (under administration) for the portfolio...
Dec 22 2014 // Insurers and reinsurers in western Europe posted solid performances in 2014 and retained their capital strength against a backdrop of economic calm, according to a new special report from A.M. Best.The report analyzes the...
Dec 19 2014 // Anbang Insurance Group Co., the Chinese insurer that’s buying New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, is expanding at home with investments from China Minsheng Banking Corp. to Financial Street Holdings Co.The...
Dec 18 2014 // The European Union’s highest court extended discrimination laws to obesity, saying employees in limited situations may be able to sue over firings if their weight hinders or limits them at work.Workers who are so...
Dec 16 2014 // Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland’s largest insurer, is about to make its first investments in European direct lending, including infrastructure debt.The insurer wants to lend to small to medium-sized European...
Dec 15 2014 // The board of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) announced three high level appointments “to secure its leadership succession.” The appointments took effect from as of December 11,...
Dec 15 2014 // Historically, U.S. companies doing business in Europe weren’t likely to list environmental litigation among their major concerns. While the United States has boasted a robust regulatory environment for some time,...
Dec 9 2014 // A.M. Best said it would be premature to draw negative conclusions from the most recent Solvency II stress tests conducted by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and does not anticipate any...
Dec 8 2014 // Climate researchers lowered their forecast for global warming for the first time since 2009 after the greenhouse gas polluters agreed to limit their emissions over the next 15 years, a group of European academics...
Dec 8 2014 // A growing middle class in sub-Saharan Africa is enticing European and South African insurers to buy local firms focusing mainly on life insurance and pensions, in the face of mature markets and strong competition at home....
Dec 5 2014 // As fall gives way to winter, meteorologists from the U.S. East Coast to the shores of Western Europe will be watching for signs that the next storm heading their way will turn into a bomb.That’s right — a bomb....