Archive

  • Governments must think like insurers in face of rising risks

    08 January 2013

    Should transfer risks to capital markets, says WEF

  • Regulators and industry carp at IAIS over G-SIIs

    08 January 2013

    Proposals need "substantial refinement", says BaFin

  • Congress ups NFIP budget by $9.7bn

    07 January 2013

    Vote for further increase for Sandy claims scheduled on 15 January

  • IIS names Woodring as next chairman

    04 January 2013

    RGA chief will replace Norman Sorensen

  • US flood money will dry up without Congress help

    04 January 2013

    Claims for Sandy and other disasters could be left unpaid, FEMA warns

  • Dodd-Frank stirs federal action on insurance regulation

    03 January 2013

    As speculation mounts that the Federal Insurance Office will soon release its report on modernising insurance regulation, Gloria Gonzalez investigates how it and the other corollaries of the Dodd-Frank reforms could redraw the US regulatory regime

  • US P/C insurers enjoy soaring profits

    31 December 2012

    Industry is in good shape to pay claims from Sandy, say ISO and PCI

  • Extracting the real value from Solvency II

    27 December 2012

    Insurers will want to move Solvency II development work out of the laboratory, says Guy Carpenter's Andrew Cox

  • EU and US release convergence plan

    24 December 2012

    Five-year plan includes fully risk-based capital requirements

  • US nat cats dominate 2012 losses

    19 December 2012

    Swiss Re study predicts $65bn of industry losses this year