September 30, 2002
Friday the 13th of September will henceforth be known at Lloyd’s as the day that members approved a plan that will radically alter the way the London market is conducted. Ignoring any bad luck associated with the date, Lloyd’s announced …
September 16, 2002
Outrageous! A travesty of Justice! Should be reversed! Both sides have probably said that at one time or another as the case of Campbell vs. State Farm worked it’s way through Utah’s court system, culminating in the State’s Supreme Court …
September 16, 2002
The floods that devastated Eastern Europe throughout August may have been caused by global warming, or by one of the 100-200 year storms probability theory predicts, or maybe just bad luck. They were in any case, the most ruinous in …
September 2, 2002
Despite recent court ordered settlement procedures, the legal dispute pitting Swiss Re and 21 other insurance companies against Silverstein Properties, the master leaseholder on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, seems destined to go to trial. The litigation …
September 2, 2002
Despite recent court ordered settlement procedures, the legal dispute pitting Swiss Re and 21 other insurance companies against Silverstein Properties, the master leaseholder on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, seems destined to go to trial. The litigation …
August 19, 2002
Despite submitting separate settlement offers to a federal judge in Manhattan, Swiss Re and World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein have yet to come to an agreement over the amount of compensation insurers and reinsurers owe after the Sept. 11 …
August 5, 2002
How do I insure thee? Let me count the ways.” With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that question’s become increasingly meaningful for risk managers, insurers, agents, brokers, consultants and investment banks. Alternative markets, alternative risk transfers, parallel markets—all describe different …
August 5, 2002
How do I insure thee? Let me count the ways.” With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that question’s become increasingly meaningful for risk managers, insurers, agents, brokers, consultants and investment banks. Alternative markets, alternative risk transfers, parallel markets—all describe different …
July 8, 2002
Lloyd’s of London is perhaps the most well- known insurer in the U.S., not only due to its 300 years of existence, but also because this country is the London market’s biggest customer, accounting for over 35 percent of its …
July 8, 2002
Lloyd’s of London is perhaps the most well known insurer in the U.S., not only due to its 300 years of existence, but also because this country is the London market’s biggest customer, accounting for over 35 percent of its …