April 3, 2012
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 …
April 2, 2012
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.” …
April 2, 2012
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 …
March 30, 2012
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 …
March 29, 2012
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 …
March 23, 2012
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 …
March 22, 2012
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 …
March 20, 2012
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., …
March 19, 2012
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 …
March 19, 2012
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 …