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Allied World Re assigned "A" rating
The ratings receive enhancement based on the tangible support provided by its parent, says AM Best
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AnalysisCalls for a global regulator
Supervisors will join forces to create a global set of standards
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Gallagher Re sale to Aon completed
The UK transaction had been subject to certain conditions which have now been fulfilled
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Online onlyLloyd’s pushes into Eastern Europe
Lloyd’s has appointed representative Witold Janusz in a bid to gain its license in Poland
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Whittington appoints John Loudon as non-exec chair
Former chairman, Edward de Jager, will remain as an active non executive director
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Max Capital outlook revised to positive
Max Capital Group will be positioned for an upgrade in about 18-24 months, says S&P
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S&P: Insurers to finally embrace ERM
2008 will mark the year that insurers finally get to grips with enterprise risk management
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AIG settles in Pennsylvania probe
AIG has reached a settlement with the Pennsylvania Insurance Department relating to the investigation into the affairs of the company and its subsidiaries.
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AnalysisWIF: Credit crunch should not inform Solvency II
Insurers have dealt effectively with systemic risk, insists Jacques Aigrain at the World Insurance Forum
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Online onlyScottish Re suspended by NYSE
Scottish Re has received notification from NYSE Regulation that its common stock and 7.25% non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock will be suspended.
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AnalysisSheriff steps down
Spitzer's probe meant brokers and insurers lost consumer confidence, says Ben Cook
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Online onlyEliot Spitzer resigns
The "Sheriff of Wall Street" steps down after sex scandal revelations
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Solvency II will lead to insurers downsizing
Solvency II could result in more than 25% of Europe’s insurers having to reduce scale, reduce risk, or merge, according to a report by S&P.
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Flagstone buys stake in South African reinsurer
Bermudian reinsurer will acquire 65% of Imperial Reinsurance Company
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Eliot Spitzer in prostitution scandal
The man who outlawed contingent commissions issues a public apology for hiring a prostitute
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Underwriting Risk Services launches Italian operation
Talbot Risk Services Italia will trade as a Lloyd's coverholder under the auspices of URSL
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Amlin Bermuda to replace underwriter
Rob Wyatt will replace John Andrews as underwriting director before 2009
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Features
The truth about diversification
After Hurricane Katrina and her sisters wrought their destruction in 2005 the Bermuda monoline business model was never going to look good. Two and a half years on, Lee Coppack asks if diversification is all it’s cracked up to be.
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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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Counting the cost
With the cost of red tape leaping a dramatic £10bn to £66bn a year in the UK alone, a new Norton Rose survey reveals how insurers and reinsurers really feel about regulation. James Bateson reports.
