All the headlines from our Germany Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2011 // Happy 100th Birthday Workers’ Compensation: Now What ?This year marks the 100th anniversary of the workers’ compensation system in the U.S. As Christopher Boggs, director of Education for Insurance...
Mar 2 2011 // Aging survivors of the Nazi Holocaust plan to protest outside a political fundraiser in Miami Beach featuring President Barack Obama this week to publicize their struggle to collect what they say is $20 billion in Jewish...
Feb 21 2011 // Pirates of the 18th century and a 19th century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern U.S. workers’...
Jan 25 2011 // World leaders and top executives have plenty of crises to discuss this year. Ballooning European government debt, rising inflation, fears of trade and currency wars, spiraling food prices and lingering problems in the...
Jan 19 2011 // Authorities have been escalating their campaign against corruption in the last few years, resulting in a sharp spike in enforcement actions in the United States and the enactment of a new anti-bribery law in the United...
Dec 30 2010 // Munich Re, via its asset manager MEAG, has concluded a significant investment deal involving wind power plants in Germany. It announced that as of the first of the year, “the Group is acquiring 40 wind turbines in a...
Dec 28 2010 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of Germany’s HDI...
Dec 20 2010 // Europe saw little respite on Sunday from the Arctic conditions that closed airports and disrupted travel over the weekend before Christmas, traditionally one of the busiest times of the year.London’s Heathrow, the...
Dec 15 2010 // You can lie to taxpayers or you can lie to creditors, European authorities are learning, but doing both at the same time is very hard.The proposed policy that current senior creditors to troubled states will not face...
Dec 5 2010 // There was a time in the not-so-distant past when events such as these would have been considered somewhat unusual in Europe. But these days, extreme weather events are becoming a much more common occurrence.In this year...
Dec 2 2010 // Two large privately-held and independent insurance brokers, U.S.-based Lockton and Germany’s Funk Group, said they will expand their risk management service alliance.Through the alliance, Funk will provide risk...
Dec 2 2010 // Heavy snow caused travel chaos across much of northern Europe on Thursday, keeping London’s Gatwick airport closed for a second day and disrupting road and rail travel in France, Germany and Switzerland.Days of...
Dec 2 2010 // Insurance brokers Lockton and Germany’s Funk Group announced that they will expand their risk management service alliance. “Through the alliance, Funk will provide risk management support for Lockton clients in...
Dec 1 2010 // Global concern about the debt crisis rocking the euro zone mounted on Wednesday, with Washington sending a top U.S. Treasury envoy to Europe and G20 officials discussing the turmoil in a conference call.A day after...
Nov 29 2010 // Germany and France declared on Monday that Europe had taken decisive action to save the euro by rescuing Ireland and laying the foundations of a permanent debt resolution system, but investors were not convinced.Under...
Nov 23 2010 // Ten Somalis are going on trial in Hamburg on piracy charges for allegedly hijacking a German container ship earlier this year.The men face a possible 15 years in prison if convicted in the Hamburg state court on charges of...
Nov 19 2010 // C. V. Starr & Co., Inc. announced the appointment of Rainer Breeck in Germany as Head of Casualty for Starr Casualty, a division of Starr Underwriting Agents, Ltd., and a wholly owned subsidiary of C.V. Starr.The...
Oct 29 2010 // Weather and renewable energy supplies across much of Western Europe could be hit this winter by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a phenomenon that can exert a powerful influence over temperature and...
Oct 26 2010 // According to a report from Munich Re, “renewable energies are gaining in significance.” The reinsurer noted that “the share of renewable energies in power generation in Germany is expected to increase...
Oct 25 2010 // International marine insurance specialist broker, Junge & Co, has rebranded its reinsurance broking operations as “Cooper Gay Germany.”Both Cooper Gay and Junge are part of the global independent wholesale...