All Global Reinsurance articles in November 2004
View all stories from this issue.
-
Features
TRIA Reconsidered
The US Congress is due to weigh up the success or failure of the US Terrorism Risk Insurance Act with a view to possibly extending it Joseph Lebens and Bruce Hockman discuss the implications.
-
Features
PRESSURE FOR REFORM
Victor E Schwartz and Cary Silverman look at civil justice reform in the 108th Congress and an important state reform
-
Online only
SECURITIES LITIGATION TRENDS
Quite a bit has been written recently on securities litigation trends but very little of it is especially enlightening, says Jim Franson, who discusses how re/insurers can evaluate and use the information
-
Features
LAUNDERING AND LIFE
New anti-money laundering rules for US life business are imminent, says Melvin S Schwechter, but should reinsurers have to comply?
-
Features
Getting Smart?
A roadmap for regulatory modernisation, a step towards a free market, a fantasy wish for insurers or just 'dumb', are some of the descriptions of the US draft State Modernization and Regulatory Transparency Act as insurers, intermediaries and consumers prepare for battle Phil Zinkewicz writes.
-
Online only
PORTFOLIOS IN FOCUS
How should reinsurers price the exposures they are assuming? Lucas Beckmann gives some guidance
-
Features
Down to the wire
With asbestos continuing to dominate the balance sheets of many UK and European re/insurers, old world companies are keeping one eye on developments in the US Mary S Lyman, Robert E Carlstrom and Michael Cook review what's happening in the US.
-
Online only
S is for .. supply and demand
Supply (noun) The law of supply and demand is the most basic economic principle.
-
Features
A QUESTION OF CONVERGENCE
The competitive advantages of locating where regulatory costs are lowest may be disappearing Ian Poynton and Stephen Parker highlight some initiatives to establish common standards.
-
Online only
KEEPING CONTROL
Outsourcing is a key strategy for many insurers Ash Saluja and Paul Edmondson describe regulatory requirements and the need for best practice.
-
Features
Contingency fees outed
Are placement service fees an acceptable market practice or little more than a bribe? Ronald Gift Mullins looks at the contribution that such fees make to brokers' income and the pending US legal confrontations
-
Online only
HURRICANES HERALD CHANGES
The slogan could be 'the four in '04 that changed property/casualty insurance', suggests Libby Bruch, as re/insurers absorb the reality and the consequences of multiple smaller storms collectively causing more damage than one large storm
-
Online only
CHANGES IN THE RISK LANDSCAPE
Business continuity is no longer the forgotten risk And globalisation and developments in modern process management have substantially changed the risk landscape for business interruption cover says Georges Galey.
-
Online only
PRICING CATASTROPHE BONDS
Stavros Christofides explains why securitisation of catastrophe risk will become the norm over the next few years
-
Features
RAISING THE BAR
In examining the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on insurance, Bill Sofsky emphasises that data quality and accuracy will be more important than ever for direct writers and reinsurers alike
