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Alte Leipziger welcomes ZZR bill vanishing in 2022
22 March 2023Mutual life unit retrieved €74m from ZZR, after expecting a €250m bill
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Litigation takes off to decide when "all is lost" for aircraft grounded in Russia
17 March 2023Insurers and clients are commencing major courtroom battles over policy coverage and phrasing after aviation assets were trapped inside Russia. David Walker investigates
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Talanx heralds "room for manoeuvre" in German life unit as ZZR bill vanishes
16 March 2023Jens Warkentin reports "hardly any" movement in lapse rates
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Talanx posts record earnings, premiums - and natcat losses
15 March 2023Overstepped 2022 large loss budget by €400m
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Talanx's HDI specialty unit reveals appetite for M&A
06 December 2022Has €5bn premium target to hit, CEO tells investors
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Hot property! Australia faces up to un-insurability threat
13 May 2022Record costs of recurring natural catastrophes risk turning property re/insurance in Australia into a niche product for low-risk homes, finds David Walker
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Australian floods dominate Talanx's Q1 losses
05 May 2022Claims from European storms and Australian floods shatter Q1 large-loss budget
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Talanx hit by largest ever nat cat losses in 2021
14 March 2022The German re/insurer also says it has a low direct exposure to Russia and Ukraine
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Nat cats push Talanx to edge of 2020 large loss budget
15 November 2021Financial impacts of storm Bernd and hurricane Ida on the German re/insurer revealed
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Germany plots the transit from transitionals
29 September 2021Some life insurers rely on Solvency II's transitional measures to ensure their continued existence. But paradoxically, that does not mean they will fail without them, as David Walker explains