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Starr Indemnity Receives Foreign, Non-Life Insurance License in Japan

Starr Indemnity & Liability Company announced that the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has granted it a foreign, non-life insurance business license in Japan. The license allows Starr to offer approved accident and health insurance and casualty solutions in the …

Aon Completes Strategic Move to London

Aon announced that is now officially a “plc (public limited company; i.e. a corporation) and that it has completed its change of the corporate domicile of “the parent company of the Aon group of companies from Delaware to the U.K.” …

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Aon Aon Corp. stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal to approve the previously announced change in corporate domicile of the parent company of the Aon group of companies from Delaware to the United Kingdom at a special stockholder …

MAPFRE ASISTENCIA Launches Subsidiary in Malta

MAPFRE ASISTENCIA, a subsidiary company of Spain’s MAPFRE Group, and MIDDLESEA INSURANCE MIDDLESEA ASSIST, have formed a joint venture to operate in Malta, following an agreement between MAPFRE ASISTENCIA and MIDDLESEA INSURANCE, MAPFRE INTERNACIONAL’s direct insurance company operating in the …

10.36% Stake in MAPFRE AMERICA Sold for $324 Million

Banco Financiero y de Ahorros (BFA) has sold its 10.36 percent stake in MAPFRE AMÉRICA for a consideration of € 244 million [$324 million] to Spanish insurer MAPFRE through the exercise of a put option agreed between the parties in …

ING Puts $775 Million Thailand Bank Stake up for Sale – Sources

ING Groep NV has put its roughly $775 million stake in Thailand’s TMB Bank Pcl on the block as the bailed-out Dutch financial services group pushes ahead with Asian divestments, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. ING, which is …

CNA Inks Deal to Acquire Hardy Underwriting for $227 Million

Chicago-based CNA Financial Corporation and Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Limited announced that they have agreed to terms on a cash acquisition by CNA of all of the common shares of Hardy. “The acquisition is to be implemented by way of a …

Starr Companies Granted Singapore License; Tat Yoong Named Principal Officer

Starr Companies announced that it has received a direct general license from the Monetary Association of Singapore (MAS) to operate as a direct insurer in the Republic. The insurance license was specifically granted to Starr International Insurance (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., …

Blunt to Head New Sportscover Specialty Lines Division

Lloyd’s insurer Sportscover – Syndicate 3334 – announced that “as part of its continuing diversification into specialist areas of business,” it will launch a specialty lines division, effective on the 5th of April 2012. “The new division will initially comprise …

Aon Shareholders Approve Domicile Move to London

Aon Corp. announced that its stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal to approve the previously announced change in corporate domicile of the parent company of the Aon group of companies from Delaware to the U.K. at a special …

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