All Global Reinsurance articles in February 2003
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Steady as a rock
Montpelier Re has taken a different road from many of its 2001 classmates, and remains steadfastly Bermuda-based. Sarah Goddard looks at the company that quenched the US IPO drought last year.
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The phantom risk?
What are the indicators that health-related litigation for mobile phone use could hit the re/insurance industry? ask Dr Jack Rowley and Brent Gerstle.
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Renaissance for London
David Doe gives his personal view on the current outlook for the London insurance market.
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Floods and fortunes
Monika Gruber argues that government backstops for flood damage are artificially dulling risk adversity and unfairly distributing the costs of irresponsible construction across taxpayers.
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Fatal saturation
Fifty years ago, the North Sea flooded, bringing widespread physical devastation and massive loss of life in the the UK and the Netherlands. Ceri Wild looks at how it happened and examines the defensive moves made in its wake.
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Emerging risk
Liability is an increasingly difficult and unpredictable class, according to broker Marsh.
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Give credit its due
Ronald Gift Mullins charts the rise of credit derivatives within the re/insurance sector.
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Conflict of cultures?
Shane Gleghorn asks whether the JP Morgan Chase litigation will clarify the validity of surety bonds.
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Casualties of war
With war in Iraq looming, Dermott White takes a look at how conflict in the Middle East might affect the global economy, as well as the aviation and marine re/insurance sectors.
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Building brands through the cycle
Michael Gaughan and Ian Barrett take a long-term look at the impact the insurance cycle has on brand building.
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Better late then never
Scott Farley provides an overview of the recent renewals season, and asks whether the soft market is already creeping up in certain sectors.
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The reformation begins
Lloyd's of London starts 2003 with a hard market and more capacity than ever. And, as Dermott White reports, the market's reform programme aims to keep it profitable, through good times and bad.
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Taxing European Allocations
A ground-breaking legal precedent handed down in 2001 has wide ramifications for global programmes which include European exposures.
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On the Up
Investment bank Morgan Stanley has taken a cautious view of the pan-European insurance industry in 2003 but it is a little more positive on the prospects for large reinsurers.
