All the headlines from our Swiss Re Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2002 // Swiss Re announced that economic and investment professionals will recap the first half of 2002 and take a look ahead at next six months and beyond at the company’s Mid-year Economic and Insurance Industry Review and...
Jun 14 2002 // Swiss Re has released its latest “sigma” study, which examines the insurance industry in Latin America emphasizing the growth potential of the region, but warning of the necessity to increase...
Jun 10 2002 // The legal dispute between Swiss Re and Silverstein Properties, over whether the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center constituted one occurrence or two, has spilled over to involve the Willis group, the...
Jun 10 2002 // The legal dispute between Swiss Re and Silverstein Properties, over whether the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center constituted one occurrence or two, has spilled over to involve the Willis group, the...
Jun 3 2002 // Newark CA-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a leading provider of products and services for the management of natural hazard risks, announced that Swiss Re Financial Products Corp.(SRFP), a Swiss Re affiliate that...
May 31 2002 // Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced that it has provided the risk analysis to Nissay Dowa General Insurance Co., Ltd. and its counterparty, Swiss Re in support of the Fujiyama Ltd. $70...
May 20 2002 // Swiss Re will sponsor a water resources project in Northeastern Brazil in conjunction with World Vision, an independent environmental organization, and . will offer hurricane advice to the media by weather forecasting...
May 13 2002 // Lawyers for Silverstein Properties have strongly denied Swiss Re’s assertions that the form provided by Willis, which bound the insurers to cover the destruction of the World Trade Center, specified that the loss of...
May 9 2002 // The legal dispute between Swiss Re and Silverstein Properties over whether the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center constituted one occurrence or two, has erupted into a dispute between Swiss Re and the...
Apr 15 2002 // In future years property/casualty insurers will no doubt look back on the year 2001 and shudder. Right now they’re too busy coping with the reality of the industry’s “annus horribilis,” to borrow...
Apr 10 2002 // Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurer, confirmed that it suffered a net loss of CHF 165 million ($98.64 million) in 2001, compared to 2000 net income of CHF 2.966 billion ($1.77 billion). The company...
Apr 1 2002 // According to a report from Reuters News Agency Swiss Re’s CEO Walter Kielholz told a local Swiss Sunday paper, the NZZ am Sontag, that the company had begun to buy equity shares again in September and foresaw an...
Mar 14 2002 // A sigma study by Swiss Re estimates that more than 33,000 people lost their lives as a result of natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2001, and puts the cost to the insurance industry at $34.4 billion. Over half...
Mar 14 2002 // A panel assembled for the annual Swiss Re U.S. Insurance/Reinsurance Industry Forum March 13 in New York City noted that the next 18 months will offer numerous challenges to the industry.The analysis concluded that both...
Mar 11 2002 // Lukas Mühlemann, the Chairman and CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston, will resign his post as Deputy Chairman of Swiss Re, following criticism of his dual role at CSFB. The two companies are linked by a series of cross...
Feb 28 2002 // XL Capital Ltd announced that its insurance subsidiary, XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd, and Swiss Re Financial Products Corp. (SRFP) have withdrawn their respective claims in a lawsuit filed in London in 2001 related to a...
Feb 26 2002 // Swiss Re reported that its property/casualty and financial services renewals in January 2002 “saw significant improvements in rates as well as terms and conditions across all lines of business.” The company...
Feb 22 2002 // Swiss Re has released a study entitled “Terrorism — dealing with the new spectre,” which concludes that the most promising approach to the problem of terrorism insurance is a “public/private...
Jan 14 2002 // Several new fronts have opened in the ongoing battle over World Trade Center coverage. On Dec. 28, 2001, Silverstein Properties (SP), the master leaseholder, filed a lawsuit against Travelers to recover the losses it...
Jan 14 2002 // Several new fronts have opened in the ongoing battle over World Trade Center coverage. On Dec. 28, 2001, Silverstein Properties (SP), the master leaseholder, filed a lawsuit against Travelers to recover the losses it...