Pan-American Life Insurance Company, headquartered in New Orleans, announced the selection of Carlos F. Mickan as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Mickan’s appointment is effective June 20. “One of Pan-American Life’s strategic objectives is to increase our …
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) marked “World Environment Day” on Friday, June 3 with the release of a spectacular new Atlas, entitled “One Planet Many People,” featuring comparative views of our planet from satellite images. Rapid urbanization, sprawling shrimp …
With a saturated and highly competitive home market, Japanese insurers are increasingly looking abroad for opportunities to expand. According to a report from the Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai, as reported by Reuters, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., …
Robert Bothwell Robert J. Bothwell has been appointed managing director of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc.’s new office in Boston. Bothwell, a former principal at William Gallagher Associates will also head the company’s National Energy Practice. The firm also announced that …
The Web site of Germany’s Allianz (http://www.allianz.com/) features an interview with two of the company’s climate experts, Matthias Klawa of Allianz Reinsurance and Olav Bogenrieder of Allianz Versicherung, who comment on how changing climatic conditions could affect Allianz’s business dealings. …
Research and Markets announced the addition of The Global Insurance Handbook 2005 to their offering. The increasing size of risk in the world is reportedly influencing multinational and global companies to protect ever larger balance sheets against traditional and untangible …
The week of Feb. 14-20, 2005 may have been a turning point in the debate over global warming. Either from incisive planning or pure serendipity, the “Kyoto Protocol” or Treaty, a global agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, came into …
Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues have produced the first clear scientific evidence that human activity-and very little else- is warming the world’s oceans. The Scripps’ report, coming from …
The “Kyoto Protocol” or Treaty, a global agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses, has come into force seven years after it was established. So far 141 countries, accounting for 55 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, have ratified the treaty, which …
Aon’s Trade Credit division has published its annual analysis of the world’s trade credit and political risk hotspots as illustrated in a new “2005 Political and Economic Risk Map.” The world’s second largest broker also warned that U.S. firms potentially …
