All Features articles – Page 7
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When politics and insurance clash
Allstate in the dock, insurance pools with negative equity and a federal catastrophe backstop in the offing. With election fever in the air, Ronald Gift Mullins looks at an increasingly politicised US insurance market.
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No guarantees
Huge losses, downgrades and fears of corporate defaults. If ever there was a case study in the risks associated with a monoline business model, the bond insurance sector has provided it. Helen Yates reports.
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Jumping through hoops
Concerns are being raised that European regulation is becoming too stifling and could echo the stringent US model. Liz Booth investigates.
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Ready for takeoff
The Gulf insurance market is set to double in the next three years to reach $4bn. Geoff Bromley takes a look at what is driving this incredible growth.
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Bucking the trend
Retro pricing fell marginally at the 1 January renewals, but it’s not a buyers’ market yet. Mairi Mallon looks at the dynamics facing a market with its own unique set of rules.
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Safe as houses?
The world’s largest insured catastrophe loss of 2007 occurred in Europe. Dr David Maréchal and Dr Jane Toothill warn underwriters not to underestimate the region’s loss potential.
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Devil’s breath
Wildfires that raged across California in October could cost the insurance industry more than $1.5bn. These blazes can no longer be considered rare, warns Tomas Girnius.
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Smashing open contingent commissions
Eliot Spitzer, Neelie Kroes and now Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal have made life less than easy for brokers. Nick Thorpe examines what their investigations mean for the industry and asks how brokers will be paid in the future.
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A year of living dangerously
In 2007, cedants on both sides of the Atlantic were reminded that follow-the-settlements/fortunes clauses do not guarantee recovery from reinsurers. Ian McKenna and Sarra Zemmel review some of the major legal battles.
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GR Survey: Emerging risks
From flu pandemics and terrorist attacks to dramatic fluctuations in global weather patterns, today’s organisations face a new breed of risks. Nathan Skinner presents the results from our most extensive survey yet.
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The year in headlines
Helen Yates takes a look back at the top news stories from 2007. All these stories were broken first on www.globalreinsurance.com.
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Preparing for the worst
New strains of bird flu could infect a billion people within weeks and the impact of this on business will depend on preparations that should already be underway, explains James O’Brien.
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Preventing a washout
Recent events have driven flooding up the political and risk management agenda. Dr Justin Butler examines what insurers and reinsurers can do to address the issue.
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Tempest brewing offshore
Insurers and reinsurers in the US have reignited the debate surrounding offshore reinsurers’ ability to dodge US income tax. Ronald Gift Mullins reports.
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You can run but you can't hide
Andrew Ward examines the continued growth of run-off in Continental Europe and asks what effects Solvency II will have on the industry?
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Capital market revolution
Capital market solutions will transform the industry, predicted delegates at our Insuring Climate Change conference. Helen Yates reports.
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GR Survey: Converging markets
The capital markets and the insurance industry are moving ever closer. But are risk transfer products really here to stay? Nick Thorpe presents the results from this month’s readership survey.
