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Ten Insurers and Reinsurers Join Five Earlier Peers in International Blockchain Initiative
Europe and the Americas." Swiss Re said with B3i, "streamlining communication and transactions could then improve industry processes as well as insurance services to customers," ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 6, 2017
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Willis Re: Japan Earthquake Losses Not Enough to Stir April Renewals
Willis Re, in the report. The trigger could be another major natural catastrophe loss, inflation, the reversal of back-year reserve releases or wider financial issues affecting ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 1, 2011
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Comprehensive Solutions to Major Risks Sound Great, but Insurance Works Best With a Custom Approach
School of Risk Management, along with the WEF. The report takes a serious look at some of the more pressing risk issues globally, then considers possible solutions -- quite a task ...
Source: BestWire Date: January 31, 2011
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Insurers Are Wary as Financial Regulators Consider How to Define Threats to the Global Financial System
Federal Reserve and other central banks. It is currently chaired by Mario Draghi, governor of the Bank of Italy. The board is working on a policy framework to address SIFIs, and ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 14, 2010
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World Economic Forum: Systemic Approach to Risk Management Needed
... Greenhill said at the press conference. "The interconnectedness of it was an increasingly important implication of this increasingly globalized economy that we're dealing with." ...
Source: BestWire Date: January 14, 2010
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Europe's Weather Risk Collaboration a New Approach to Measuring Catastrophe Threats
East Anglia, a key source of climate change research. While climate scientists maintain the e-mails are being misinterpreted, skeptics of man-made climate change claim the contents ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 7, 2009
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International Reinsurers Flock to Brazil's Newly Privatized Market
International Group, although the latter is in the middle of restructuring. Reinsurance Opening Brazil's reinsurance market was monopolized by the Instituto de Resseguros do ...
Source: BestWire Date: August 17, 2009
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Cross-Border Growth is Essential for Many Insurers, But Panic May Ruin the Prospects
... Services Group, Citigroup and the Wharton School Risk Center. According to the report, the financial crisis "exposed a lack of coordination among policymakers, regulators and ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 2, 2009
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KAMP Re To Pay Out After Katrina Losses
...Wire that a claim had been made to Swiss Re. He added that the claim that had been made was a portion of the coverage provided under the transaction. He also pointed out that KAMP ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 16, 2007
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Swiss Re to Pick Up Zurich U.K. Annuity Block
Zurich Financial Services Group said its U.K. life subsidiary will transfer part of its annuity business to Swiss Re Group, divesting itself of a business it has not actively ...
Source: BestWire Date: June 5, 2007
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Aon Places $190 Million Earthquake Bond for Munich Re
Zurich American Insurance Co. and its affiliates. The deal was facilitated by Aon Capital Markets. The three-year notes were issued by Lakeside Re Ltd., a Cayman Islands-based ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 22, 2006
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Tale of Two Trials: Contract Language Underlies Contradictory World Trade Center Verdicts
Silverstein contends the destruction was two events, not one. The federal jury in the Phase II trial agreed with Silverstein that the terrorism that brought down the structures ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 9, 2004

Silverstein Wins Two-Occurrence Verdict in Second World Trade Center Trial
New York agreed with leaseholder Larry A. Silverstein's argument that the nine insurers involved had bound under insurance agreements that allow the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 7, 2004

Swiss Re Subpoenaed in Growing Financial Reinsurance Probe
Swiss Re Group said it has received requests from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York state Attorney General for documentation related to nontraditional ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 22, 2004
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Swiss Re Unit to Acquire Closed Life Block in United Kingdom
Life Assurance Holding Corp. Ltd., including its life insurance subsidiary, Windsor Life Assurance Co. Ltd. Admin Re, Swiss Re's unit that specializes in acquiring and ...
Source: BestWire Date: July 1, 2004
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Perspectives: TRIA, Asbestos, Cycles...Uncertainty Looms for Reinsurance Industry
General Reinsurance Corp., and Swiss Reinsurance America Corp., all of whom say they--along with industry trade groups--have serious doubts about the trust fund approach to solving ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 26, 2004
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Zurich Financial Sells U.K. Life Unit to Swiss Re Subsidiary
Zurich Financial Services Group said it would close its U.K.-based Zurich Life Assurance Co. business and sell it to Swiss Reinsurance Co. in a transaction worth about $460 ...
Source: BestWire Date: August 6, 2003
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Lack of Interest Sinks European Terrorism Insurer
Special Risk's chief executive officer, in a statement. "The syndrome, 'I am not a terror risk,' certainly prevails." Several factors contributed to the stakeholders' decision to ...
Source: BestWire Date: March 14, 2003
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Industry Leaders Cite Terrorism Impact in Push for Federal Regulation
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE:HIG), said that despite the federal commitment to back up the industry in the event of another attack, insurers still retain "a ...
Source: BestWire Date: January 15, 2003
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Insurers Create European Terrorism Underwriter
Five of Europe's biggest insurers, along with XL Capital Ltd. of Bermuda, have created a new insurer with 500 million euros (US$1 = 1.14 euro) of funding and a mission to provide ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 4, 2002