All the headlines from our Willis Towers Watson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 1 2010 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of Willis Group Holdings announced the appointment of James Byng Property Resource Group Leader for its International and Specialty reinsurance business. He will assume this new position on...
Jul 1 2010 // A new report from Willis Re, the reinsurance broking arm of Willis Group Holdings, has concluded that “losses from the Chile earthquake and storms in Australia in the first quarter of 2010 have had little impact on...
Jun 17 2010 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of Willis Group Holdings announced the establishment of a new office in Toronto, Canada. The office will open September 1, 2010 and will complement Willis Group’s existing presence in...
Mar 31 2010 // For the first time in many years the first quarter 2010 results of reinsurers will be worse than the results of their primary insurance company clients thanks in part to unprecedented catastrophe losses.Some $16 billion in...
Mar 31 2010 // Haiti is a place where Willis Group Holdings plc, the global insurance broker, does little or no business. Among its 17,000 employees worldwide, the firm says only one was known to come from Haiti.But still, the...
Jan 4 2010 // Willis Group Holdings announced that its reorganization has been completed and the new parent company of the Willis Group – known as Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company (PLC) – is incorporated in...
Dec 31 2009 // “Orderly Softening” is the title of the latest edition of Willis Re’s “1st View.” The reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings publishes the market review three times each year, examining...
Dec 11 2009 // Willis Group Holdings Limited announced that its shareholders have approved changing the place of incorporation of the parent company of the Willis Group from Bermuda to Ireland at a special meeting in New York.The Board...
Oct 15 2009 // Willis Group Holdings announced the appointment of Hugh Powell as CEO, Latin America, for Willis Facultative. He will have responsibility for Willis’ facultative reinsurance business across the entire region and will...
Oct 14 2009 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Limited, has announced a series of management changes and a new organizational structure “designed to respond to the evolving...
Oct 5 2009 // Willis, IrelandWillis Group Holdings Limited wants to change the company’s place of incorporation from Bermuda to Ireland. Shareholders will vote on the measure at a meeting in three or four months. The change also...
Jul 30 2009 // Willis Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: WSH) reported the company’s total second quarter revenues were up by 19 percent, an increase due primarily to the HRH acquisition.Total reported revenues for the quarter ended...
Jul 1 2009 // A report from Willis Re indicates that “despite predictions of dramatic rate increases to offset reinsurer losses over the preceding 12 months, July 1 reinsurance renewals saw sufficient capacity in virtually all...
Apr 28 2009 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings, and Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the Willis Re Catastrophe Price Index™ on the Thomson Reuters Insurance Linked Securities...
Mar 17 2009 // Willis Group Holdings has launched Willis Facultative, which it described as a”new unit that combines the individual facultative units of Willis and Willis Re and consolidates the group’s specialist Facultative...
Jan 29 2009 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings, announced the appointment of 17 professionals “to extend the global growth of the unit’s specialty lines business.”Willis said the...
Jan 5 2009 // According to a just issued report from Willis Re, the reinsurance broking arm of Willis Group Holdings, “the global reinsurance industry has remained substantially unscathed by the unprecedented turmoil in the global...
Oct 16 2008 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings, announced from its London headquarters the election of Alice Underwood to the Board of Directors of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) for a three...
Oct 3 2008 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings, has announced the formation of a Protection & Indemnity (P&I) and Marine Mutual Reinsurance team, and appointed a managing director and three...
Sep 9 2008 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings announced that Rowan Douglas, managing director of analytics for Willis Re’s International and Specialty divisions, has been appointed to the...