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Europe Faces Increased Fears of Bird Flu Epidemic

The appearance of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in Turkey and Romania has increased fears in Europe over the spread of the disease. The virus has been linked to more than sixty human deaths in Asia. Recent studies in …

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Extreme Weather Hits Europe: Devastating wild fires in Portugal; torrential rains in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Romania; drought in much of France. There seems to be no end to the list of extreme weather conditions that have hit Europe in …

Extreme Weather Hits Europe: Devastating wild fires in Portugal; torrential rains in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Romania; drought in much of France. There seems to be no end to the list of extreme weather conditions that have hit Europe in …

Extreme Weather Hits Europe

Devastating fires in Portugal; torrential rains in Switzerland, Austria and Romania; drought in much of France – the list of extreme weather conditions continues to grow in Europe. No contrast is more vivid than scenes of uncontrolled forest fires raging …

GE to Open Business Service and Tech Center in Romania

Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu announced that GE will locate its next Business Services & Technology Solutions Center in Bucharest, the second such center in Europe. The new center will handle “a variety of complex finance & accounting, supply …

AIG Europe Licensed in Georgia

American International Group Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Paris-based AIG Europe, S.A., has received approval from the Insurance State Supervision Service of Georgia for the establishment of a branch in Tbilisi, Georgia. “The AIG Companies are well established …

The Shake Down of 2004

This year will no doubt go down in insurance history as a year to remember. For the most part, the year slid by with minimal excitement … that was until the fall of 2004 when the industry was hit by …

Csiszar Puts Focus In Place, Set to Tackle the Issues

Just weeks into his tenure as president and CEO of the Des Plaines, Ill.-based Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, Ernst N. Csiszar sat down with Midwest Managing Editor Kevin O’Reilly during the group’s annual legislative meeting in Chicago. A …

CSISZAR NAMED PRESIDENT OF PCI:

The Board of Governors of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named South Carolina Director of Insurance and current president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Ernst N. Csiszar to serve as the association’s next …

Csiszar Named President of PCI; Resigns as S.C. Insurance Regulator, President of NAIC

Ernst N. Csiszar The Board of Governors of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named South Carolina Director of Insurance and current president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Ernst N. Csiszar to serve as the …