All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2006 // Following its positive decision last May, the European Commission formally accepted the applications by Bulgaria and Romania to join the European Union as of January 1, 2007. They will increase the number of EU member...
Sep 26 2006 // Euler Hermes ACI, the US subsidiary of the Euler Hermes group, a global credit insurance provider, has issued its latest analysis of the global economy which concludes that although the IMF outlook remains positive,...
Sep 25 2006 // Are we doing things we really should be doing from a regulatory standpoint to cut the cost of regulation? asked Property Casualty Insurers Association of America President and CEO Ernie Csiszar during the International...
Sep 21 2006 // Germany’s Allianz announced that it has reached an agreement with employee representatives of its Italian subsidiary RAS Holding S.p.A on “the future structure for the operational and corporate codetermination...
Sep 19 2006 // The “hurricane season” usually causes concern in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, along the western Atlantic seaboard and Bermuda. However, this year residents of those areas are beginning to breathe...
Sep 19 2006 // ACE Europe announced the appointment of Iain McConnachie to the position of Direct Marketing Director for Europe within its Accident & Health division. He joins ACE’s European operation from Time Life Direct...
Sep 15 2006 // The shoe doesn’t fall until 2010, but already, according to a survey by the Ernst & Young Global Insurance Centre, 80 percent of “major European insurance companies have already begun Solvency II (SII)...
Sep 12 2006 // Risk Management Solutions, a Newark, Calif.-based provider of products and services for the management of natural hazard risk, released its probabilistic Germany River Flood model to assess both off and on-flood plain...
Sep 11 2006 // SCOR’s “Back on Track” restructuring strategy finally paid off as the French reinsurer regained its “A” rating from A.M. Best Co. The rating agency announced that it has upgraded the financial...
Sep 11 2006 // Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Levene welcomed His Excellency Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, and a host of senior executives from across the insurance market, government and business at a dinner held in the...
Sep 8 2006 // The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has teamed up with AIG Europe (UK) Limited to provide small and mediums sized businesses (SMEs) with tailored insurance solutions and advice on business risk management.“Recent...
Sep 8 2006 // France’s AXA Group has received approvals from U.S., Swiss and the European Commission antitrust authorities for its CHF12.3 billion ($9.89 billion) agreement to acquire Winterthur Swiss Insurance Co. from Credit...
Sep 6 2006 // A comprehensive study of property and casualty insurance companies in North America, Western Europe and Australia has determined that the top line is more often the bottom line than previously thought. Bain finds that the...
Sep 5 2006 // One Company that seems confident in the growth predictions of the Research & Markets report (See related article) is Ireland’s Quinn Group. It plans to hire as many as 1000 new workers for its insurance...
Sep 5 2006 // Towers Perrin has named Steve Taylor-Gooby as managing director for its Tillinghast business. In his new role, Taylor-Gooby will assume responsibility for establishing overall strategic direction, key investment priorities...
Aug 30 2006 // ACE Bermuda has appointed Anup Seth as Managing Director of ACE European Markets. He will assume responsibility for the general day-to-day management of ACE’s Dublin-based operation, which was established in 1997 to...
Aug 22 2006 // Scottish Re Group Limited, a global life reinsurance specialist that operates companies in Bermuda, Charlotte, No. Carolina, Dublin, Grand Cayman, and Windsor, England – but oddly enough not in Scotland – has...
Aug 7 2006 // For the insurance industry, global controversies tend to obscure some equally important debates going on in smaller forums around the globe. The principal controversy in the U.S. revolves around state vs. federal...
Aug 7 2006 // For the insurance industry, global controversies tend to obscure some equally important debates going on in smaller forums around the globe. The principal controversy in the U.S. revolves around state vs. federal...
Aug 3 2006 // The U.K.-based ACE European Group, a primary underwriter of directors and officers insurance in the London market, issued a statement that it is “taking a lead in the D&O market by providing greater clarity in...