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Ace Unit Endorses Mandatory Liability Cover for U.K. Pension Trustees
Ace European Group Ltd. has endorsed a suggestion that pension trustees in the United Kingdom be required to have liability insurance. The proposal came from Brian Holden, chairman ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 14, 2006
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Lloyd's Market Group Adds Voice to Calls for Clarity on Broker Payments
Financial Services Authority. "I think the FSA should step in and make it clearer," said Andrew Kendrick, chairman of the LMA and chairman and CEO of Ace European Group Ltd. The ...
Source: BestWire   Date: July 24, 2006
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Perspectives: Getting Regulators to Buy In on Contingent Commissions Is No Easy Task
Have you heard this one? A customer walks into an electronics store to buy a new television and asks to know the prices, features and service records of different models. After a ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 22, 2006
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N.Y. Insurance Deputy Moves to Ace
What was your agency's response? A. The New York Insurance Department worked closely with the Attorney General's office in New York on the investigations and the settlements. At ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 1, 2006
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Ace Settles for $80 Million With Three States in Finite Reinsurance, Brokerage Probes
New York, Connecticut and Illinois. Those settlements will cost Ace $80 million pretax, a charge to first-quarter earnings that cut into an otherwise impressive performance. Ace ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 26, 2006
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New Chairman of Lloyd's Market Group to Continue Push for Contract Certainty
Ace European Group Ltd. He is also the newly elected chairman of the Lloyd's Market Association, which represents underwriters operating at Lloyd's. Contract certainty indicates ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 17, 2006
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Good Night, Finite?: Innovators on the Front Line
American International Group, Ace Ltd., Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd., MBIA Inc., St. Paul Travelers Cos., Swiss Re, Zurich Financial Services Group and Berkshire Hathaway ...
Source: Best's Review   Date: April 1, 2005
Ace 10-K Filing Acknowledges Lawsuits, Investigations Related to Industry Practices
Delaware Chancery Court by shareholders of broker Marsh & McLennan Cos. related to bid-rigging charges leveled at Marsh through its brokerage practices. In that lawsuit, plaintiffs ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 17, 2005
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Benfield's U.S. Unit Adopts Full-Disclosure Guidelines in Response to Spitzer Probe
The group said its U.S. subsidiary, Benfield Inc., will also disclose to its reinsurance customers all material relationships it has with its customers' reinsurers. The ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 14, 2004
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Spitzer Nets Guilty Pleas From Two Zurich Underwriters in Brokerage Probe
Edward Coughlin -- are senior underwriters with Zurich American. Each pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of violating New York's Donnelly Act, which prohibits agreements in ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 17, 2004
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Ace Suspends Commission Practice as Executive Pleads Guilty
Announcing the change in an Oct. 17 letter to employees worldwide, Ace's president and chief executive officer, Evan Greenberg, said that the probe -- which led to Ace (NYSE:ACE) ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 18, 2004
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Consultant: Charges of Bid-Rigging Could Mean a 'Very Bad Day' for Insurance Industry
Jay Gelb, an equity analyst with Prudential Equity Group, said in an Oct. 15 research note that Prudential is lowering its property/casualty insurance sector rating to unfavorable. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 18, 2004
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