All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 2 2014 // Insurance companies around the world are promising lower rates on car coverage. The catch is they want to install the equivalent of an airplane’s black box to track how and where you drive.Smartphone applications and...
Dec 1 2014 // Mapfre SA, the biggest insurer in Spain, is seeking to expand and may make acquisitions in Europe and the U.S., Chairman Antonio Huertas said.The company isn’t constrained by regulators’ efforts to stiffen...
Dec 1 2014 // One in four European insurers may struggle to meet promises to policyholders in a prolonged period of low interest rates, the European Union’s insurance watchdog said following a stress test of the industry.These...
Nov 26 2014 // Swiss Re’s Chief economist, Kurt Karl and his colleague, Senior Economist Roman Lechner, presented a somewhat cautious scenario for the global economy over the next two years. As detailed in Swiss Re’s...
Nov 12 2014 // Insurers from Europe, Asia and the United States are among some 20 potential bidders in the sale by Turkey’s state-run Halkbank of its pension and insurance arms, three sources close to the process said on...
Nov 12 2014 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that Allied World Europe has appointed Roman Beerli, Vice President, Onshore Construction. He will be responsible for underwriting onshore construction projects...
Nov 11 2014 // On the 11th of November 1914 the 1st World War, or the ‘Great War,’ had already lasted more than three months, and predictions that it would be over by Christmas had largely evaporated. The failure of...
Nov 11 2014 // ACE urged risk managers at multinational European companies to reexamine the capabilities of their global insurance partners as the international regulatory and business environment grows increasingly complex.The...
Nov 11 2014 // Arch Insurance Europe has acquired 100 percent of Resource Underwriting Pacific Pty Ltd (RUPPL), the Melbourne-based MGA. RUPPL will be added to Arch Insurance Europe’s current holdings in Australia. James...
Nov 10 2014 // Kiln and Tokio Marine Europe announced that they have “sealed their union today by formally rebranding as Tokio Marine Kiln,” concentrating on international specialist and corporate insurance.The newly combined...
Nov 7 2014 // In a response submitted to the European Commission on Tuesday 4 November, the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has called for renewal of the Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (IBER) for...
Nov 6 2014 // CNA Financial Corporation announced several senior appointments to the Energy, Marine and Aviation (EMA) team of London-based Hardy (Underwriting Agencies) Limited, an independent wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of CNA,...
Nov 6 2014 // European insurers posted strong increases in earnings in the third quarter, helped by a slump in payouts for catastrophe damage, rising premium income, cost cuts and a weaker euro.Besides losses from the Malaysia Airlines...
Nov 5 2014 // Banks need to put more money into combating hackers who have the potential to wreak havoc throughout the continent, the director of the European Union’s cybersecurity agency said.“We don’t know if there...
Nov 4 2014 // International investors are overtaking Danish pension funds and insurers as the biggest buyers of the Nordic country’s covered mortgage bonds, creating new risks for the $500 billion market.The institutional...
Oct 31 2014 // A hurricane may lose its name, its structure and even its place on National Hurricane Center tracking maps. None of that is a guarantee the storm’s meteorological energy won’t keep making mischief.While still...
Oct 30 2014 // Aviva plc, the U.K.’s second-biggest insurer by market value, reported a 15 percent rise in new business in the first nine months of the year, driven by its European and Asian operations.The value of new business, a...
Oct 28 2014 // A hurricane may lose its name, its structure and even its place on National Hurricane Center tracking maps. None of that is a guarantee the storm’s meteorological energy won’t keep making mischief.While...
Oct 27 2014 // Danish climate scientist and TV weatherman Jesper Theilgaard told risk managers from some of Europe’s leading companies that they should not treat climate change as a “doomsday” scenario. Instead, he...
Oct 27 2014 // The decline in Arctic sea ice has doubled the chance of severe winters in Europe and Asia in the past decade, according to researchers in Japan.Sea-ice melt in the Arctic, Barents and Kara seas since 2004 has made more...