Marsh Sees Insurer Security, Transparency, Accountability as Issues Despite the global economic crisis, the commercial insurance market is poised to remain stable through 2010, but new challenges are emerging for risk managers, according to a report issued by insurance broker …
Volcanoes exist in many parts of the world, and their eruptions can be terrifying and devastating, as Aon Benfield’s Professor Russell Blong discusses in the previous article at: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2010/06/04/110441.htm. However, not all volcanic eruptions produce clouds of gritty ash that …
BP Plc managed Thursday to lower a containment cap onto its ruptured deep-sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico in a high-stakes bid to siphon off some of the oil billowing from its gusher. U.S. President Barack Obama canceled his …
Torus, the global specialty insurer, announced the appointment of Mathieu Borneuf as Head of Management Liability and Jérôme Gillet as Head of Professional Liability. Both men are based in Torus’ new Paris office and will manage their respective product lines …
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has announced that “due to a significant deterioration in UK claim experience, in particular bodily injury claims, it had conducted a further independent actuarial review of its UK business. “As a result, in FY10 the Group …
AXA, AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (AXA APH) and National Australia Bank Limited (NAB) announced that they have agreed to “extend until July 15, 2010 end of day the agreement relating to the proposed transaction whereby NAB will acquire 100 …
Willis Group Holdings has appointed Scott Pickering as CEO, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South Africa, effective immediately. He will be based in the Al Futtaim Willis office in Dubai and will report to Sarah Turvill, Chairman and …
This year is on track to be the warmest worldwide since records began in the 19th century, yet voters seem to be cooling to strong action to combat climate change. Their doubts may be quietly sapping the will of governments …
Denver-based Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, and the UK’s JBA Consulting, a European flood risk and environmental management firm, announced a strategic collaboration, designed to “provide detailed flood mapping services for clients across Continental …
Despite the global economic crisis, the commercial insurance market is poised to remain stable through 2010, but new challenges are emerging for risk managers, according to a report issued by insurance broker Marsh. The financial crisis has brought risk management …
