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RMS ESTIMATES WINDSTORM JEAN-ETT CAUSED MAJOR FINANCIAL IMPACT

Nov 25 2002 // California-based Risk Management Solutions Inc. (RMS), announced that the windstorm, designated Jeanett, which has hit the U.K., France, and the rest of northern Europe in late October, could cause up to 1 billion Euros...

Gerling Global – Going, Going, Gone

Nov 25 2002 // Asbestos, the weak equity markets and Sept. 11 have indirectly claimed another victim. Gerling-Konzern Globale Ruckversicherungs—AG (GKG), the reinsurance arm of Germany’s Gerling Group, announced at the end of...

German Broker Becomes inreon’s 100TH Member

Nov 22 2002 // inreon, the Internet-based reinsurance trading platform announced that German broker Koenig & Reeker has become its 100th member. The company joins 81 other cedants and brokers from 17 countries across Asia, North...

Allianz Posts $2.52 Billion Q3 Net Loss, $933 Million 1st Nine Months

Nov 15 2002 // Germany’s Allianz announced that it would report a net loss for the third quarter of 2.5 billion Euros ($2.525 billion) and a net loss of 924 million Euros ($933 million) for the first nine months of 2002 due to a...

RMS Update Shows European Windstorm Damages Climb Upward

Nov 5 2002 // Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) has updated its estimate of damages and insured losses from Windstorm Jeanette, originally released on Oct. 30. RMS now estimates that total damages from the storm, which impacted...

RMS Estimates Windstorm Jeanett May Cause $983 Million in Total Damages

Oct 31 2002 // California-based Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS), announced that the windstorm, designated Jeanett, which has hit the U.K., France, and the rest of northern Europe over the last several days may cause up to 1 billion...

Report German Gov’t. Seeks Two Month Extension for Airline Terrorist Coverage

Oct 29 2002 // Germany’s newly reelected government has reportedly asked the European Commission (EC) for permission to extend emergency terrorist risk coverage to the country’s airlines until the end of the year.The EC...

$275 Million Holocaust Settlement Nears

Oct 17 2002 // After a number of preliminary agreements, and some protracted delays, German representatives and The International Commission of Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) were reportedly near an agreement that would provide...

S&P, Moody’s Lower Allianz Ratings

Oct 10 2002 // Both Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service announced Wednesday that they have downgraded their ratings on Germany’s Allianz AG, Europe’s largest insurer. S&P also announced that...

Eastern European Floods Cause Widespread Damage

Sep 16 2002 // The floods that devastated Eastern Europe throughout August may have been caused by global warming, or by one of the 100-200 year storms probability theory predicts, or maybe just bad luck. They were in any case, the most...

German Insurers Set Up Terror Risk Vehicle

Sep 4 2002 // 16 leading insurance companies, including Munich Re, Swiss Re and Allianz, announced the foundation of “Extremus,” a jointly owned insurance vehicle which will provide excess coverage for losses caused by...

Speculation Grows on AIG Takeover of Zurich

Sep 2 2002 // Rumors of a possible takeover of Zurich Finan-cial by U.S. insurance juggernaut American International Group (AIG) gained steam as the Swiss concern’s stock rose sharply last week.According to Reuters, speculative...

Speculation Grows on AIG Takeover of Zurich

Sep 2 2002 // Rumors of a possible takeover of Zurich Financial by U.S. insurance juggernaut American International Group (AIG) gained steam as the Swiss concern’s stock rose sharply last week.According to Reuters, speculative...

Insurers Have Limited Exposure to East Europe Flood Claims

Aug 20 2002 // A number of European insurers and reinsurers have indicated that despite the widespread damages caused by the ongoing floods in Germany and Eastern Europe, their exposure to claims is limited.With analysts now increasing...

European Flood Update – Losses in the Billions

Aug 19 2002 // Even as German Chancellor Schroeder met with other European leaders in Berlin on Sunday to find ways of dealing with the unprecedented floods sweeping across Eastern Europe, workers in Budapest struggled to contain the...

European Insurers Expect Millions of Euros in Flood Claims

Aug 16 2002 // Many European insurers expect claims totaling millions of euros as flooding that has heavily damaged areas of the Czech Republic and Austria now threaten eastern Germany.Reuters reports that several European...

A.M. Best Affirms Rating of Allianz

Aug 8 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A++ (Superior) of Allianz AG Consolidated, Germany.At the same time, A.M. Best has downgraded Allianz’s debt ratings to “aa+” from...

U.S. Court Backs Calif. Law on Holocaust Issue

Aug 5 2002 // Commissioner Low was very gratified with the decision. From his perspective, this is a time-sensitive issue because some of these survivors are dying every day,” said Nanci Kramer, a spokesperson with the California...

Price Fixing Denied by German Insurers

Aug 1 2002 // A group of German insurance companies accused of having fixed prices for industrial insurance policies are denying those allegations, according to the Financial Times Information service. German prosecutors raided the...

Offices of German Insurers Raided by Government

Jul 30 2002 // As part of an investigation into alleged price fixing by industrial property and liability insurers, a German federal agency raided the offices of 13 insurance companies. According to BestWire, the offices of Allianz AG...