All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 4 2008 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide is assessing the damages caused by windstorm Emma, which swept across Western and Southern Germany, as well as Austria and the Czech Republic on Saturday, March 1. No damage estimates have yet...
Mar 3 2008 // The European Union should speedily work out ways to help developing nations fight global warming to avert a “Catch 22” impasse that could brake action worldwide, the U.N.’s top climate change official...
Feb 27 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued another bulletin, following yesterday’s rating announcements (See IJ web site –...
Feb 19 2008 // A new report from Marsh’s London office focuses on the increasing problems of transport and logistics firms across Europe in coping with new categories of liability and an increasingly complex regulatory...
Feb 15 2008 // Marsh’s London office announced the appointment of Gordon Springett as Leader of its Power and Utility Practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He takes over from Mark Pollard, who was recently appointed...
Feb 15 2008 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced the launch of “the first parametric index for assessing insured industry losses from windstorms in Europe.” The new model -” Paradex Europe Windstorm”...
Feb 12 2008 // According to findings from a recently released survey conducted by Accenture, “more than three-quarters of large European insurers expect to spend less than €25 million [$36.27 million] through 2012 on Solvency II...
Feb 12 2008 // Minneapolis-based Collins is expanding its services as a reinsurance intermediary to Europe. President and CEO Pat Denzer announced that the Company had engaged Michel Fernandez, a native Parisian, who has worked for 15...
Feb 10 2008 // Susan Doyle has been named president and COO of Wisconsin-based Wausau Insurance, part of the commercial markets business unit of the Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group. Doyle replaces Mark Fiebrink, who retired.Doyle...
Feb 4 2008 // Zurich Financial Services Group announced that it will expand its services for corporate customers in Norway and Denmark through the establishment of two new branches of Zurich Insurance Ireland Limited (ZIIL), its...
Jan 31 2008 // The Zurich Financial Services Group has appointed Ian Parker, a 42 year old UK citizen, to the position of Head of Strategy for Europe General Insurance (EGI), effective February 1st.He will be responsible for...
Jan 27 2008 // The insurance industry’s “traditional model” has become outdated and is so abstruse that the industry’s ability to compete is being jeopardized.European risk managers face the same challenges as...
Jan 25 2008 // Guy Carpenter & Company has named Nick Frankland, Andrew Marcell and Ryan Ogaard to its Executive Committee. The Committee is “responsible for developing the firm’s strategic plan, setting budgets,...
Jan 24 2008 // According to a recently released report from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC), the number of international insurance entities based on the island in the English Channel “grew again during 2007...
Jan 24 2008 // Marsh’s London office reports that the insurance broker has launched a London-based division of its China Global Client Services practice.The new division, headed by Robert Wendin, will provide “comprehensive...
Jan 16 2008 // Marsh announced from its London office that David Batchelor will succeed Alex Moczarski as CEO of Marsh’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He currently heads the Asia Pacific region for Marsh,...
Jan 15 2008 // Guy Carpenter & Company, announced that it will be opening an office in Prague on March 1, 2008, to further develop business and serve clients based or conducting business in the Czech and Slovak Republics.The new...
Jan 8 2008 // In a special report A.M. Best Co. warns that “lurking beneath Central Europe are numerous faults that rarely break the ground surface but that still could lead to large scale catastrophe losses for insurers and...
Jan 3 2008 // The start of a new year often brings jokes about crystal balls, but with the arrival of 2008, many investors are ruefully saying they don’t need fortunetelling gimmicks – they know that the problems that made...
Dec 31 2007 // The debate over climate change captured the world’s attention, including the insurance industry’s, in 2007, while major hurricanes spared the United States’ coastline. The soft market took hold of...