All the headlines from our Reinsurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurer CRM Holdings, Ltd. In Bermuda recently reported a 135 percent increase in its revenue to a record $34.7 million in the first quarter.The company said it continues to benefit from its...
May 10 2007 // Somebody at SCOR must have seen “The Godfather” recently, as the French reinsurer finally made Converium an offer it couldn’t refuse. After nearly three months of wrangling and battling press releases the...
May 9 2007 // The Travelers Companies, Inc. has set up a multi-year catastrophe bond program to provide reinsurance protection for its insurance subsidiaries for losses resulting from hurricanes and certain other catastrophes in the...
May 7 2007 // Capital markets, technology and the use of mass media could be disruptive forces in the insurance industry in the near future, according to Paula Reynolds, CEO of Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Co. Speaking at the...
May 7 2007 // Stock Prices: Commercial line insurers’ stocks traded down 2 percent for the first quarter of 2007.The only company reporting significant stock gains for the first quarter was CNA Financial Corp. (NYSE:CNA) whose...
May 7 2007 // Capital markets, technology and the use of mass media could be disruptive forces in the insurance industry in the near future, according to Paula Reynolds, CEO of Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Co. Speaking at the...
May 7 2007 // Stock Prices: Commercial line insurers’ stocks traded down 2 percent for the first quarter of 2007.The only company reporting significant stock gains for the first quarter was CNA Financial Corp. (NYSE:CNA) whose...
May 4 2007 // Germany’s Munich Re Group reported that first quarter consolidated results rose slightly to €982 million ($1.33 billion) compared to €978 billion ($1.326 billion in the same period of 2006. Operating results,...
May 3 2007 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following ratings on Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (RNR): –Issuer Default Rating ‘A-‘; –Senior unsecured notes ‘BBB+’; –Preferred stock...
Apr 27 2007 // Munich Re’s annual general meeting yesterday, April 26, highlighted the reinsurer’s strengthened economic position, strong 2006 and first quarter results and improving prospects for the future.Shareholders got...
Apr 25 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating (FSR) of “B++” (Good) and an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb” to Moroccan reinsurer Société Centrale de Réassurance (SCR), with a stable...
Apr 25 2007 // If the federal government’s terrorism insurance program were allowed to expire, private market terrorism insurance coverage would become largely unavailable and unaffordable, and the gears of commercial real estate...
Apr 24 2007 // Not so long ago it was beginning to look like “A” ratings were an endangered species. However, after a lot of belt tightening (and a benign year for nat cats in 2006), the rating agencies have been raising,...
Apr 23 2007 // What a difference a year makes. On March 29, Lloyd’s announced pretax profits for 2006 of $7.2 billion compared to the $202 million loss it posted in 2005.Lloyd’s also achieved an extremely good combined ratio...
Apr 23 2007 // Capital markets, technology and the use of mass media could be disruptive forces in the insurance industry in the near future, according to Paula Reynolds, CEO of Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Co. Speaking at the...
Apr 23 2007 // Lloyd’s posts more than $7 billion in record pre-tax profitWhat a difference a year makes. On March 29, Lloyd’s announced pretax profits for 2006 of $7.2 billion compared to the $202 million loss it posted in...
Apr 20 2007 // Six organizations serving the property/casualty insurance industry have become associate members of the American Association of Insurance Services. The organizations that have become associate members in 2007 are: –...
Apr 19 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A” (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a” of Hannover Reinsurance (Ireland) Limited (HRI) and its subsidiaries, E&S...
Apr 18 2007 // A bulletin from the Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited, whose operating companies also do business from the UK, the U.S. and Lloyd’s, notes that its Lloyd’s Syndicate 2003 “is one of the inaugural...
Apr 17 2007 // Lloyd’s announced the official opening of its Chinese reinsurance operations (See IJ web site April 3 and April 25, 2006) at a ceremony attended by “a host of dignitaries,” including Lloyd’s...