A report from the Associated Press highlights the significant rise in the number of fires that have struck factories on Taiwan and mainland China, many of which have been of suspicious origin. The article discusses the connection between rapidly increasing …
EQECAT Inc., an ABS Consulting company, has been selected by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) to provide the modeling of workers’ compensation catastrophe losses. The selection of EQECAT was announced at the NCCI Annual Issues Symposium, held in …
EQECAT Inc., an ABS Consulting company, has been selected by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) to provide the modeling of workers’ compensation catastrophe losses. The selection of EQECAT was announced at the NCCI Annual Issues Symposium, held in …
Standard & Poor’s warned that Taiwan’s property and casualty insurance sector is “likely to face a tough year in 2002 due to hardening rates and structures offered by the global reinsurance market and reduced reinsurance capacity,” and indicated that some …
The increasingly sophisticated business of constructing catastrophe models is driven by three main imperatives: what are the chances of a given event happening; what are the upper and lower limits of a catastrophic occurrence; and what effect, depending on the …
The increasingly sophisticated business of constructing catastrophe models is driven by three main imperatives: what are the chances of a given event happening; what are the upper and lower limits of a catastrophic occurrence; and what effect, depending on the …
Inreon, the online reinsurance trading platform, has expanded into the Asian market with the opening of a new office in Hong Kong. It hopes to have its Internet platform ready to go in time for renewals on April 1. “A …
The World Trade Organization’s plenary session in Doha concluded in the wee hours of Wednesday morning with a breakthrough agreement by all 142 member countries to initiate a new round of trade negotiations early next year. The session had already …
The World Trade Organization opened its first plenary session since the disrupted talks in Seattle two years ago, as representatives from 142 member countries gathered in Doha, the capital of the Arab Gulf State of Qatar. A long list of …
No sooner had the weary delegates to the current World Trade Organization meeting in Geneva taken a rest from thrashing out the final details of China’s admission to the world’s governing trade body, than they began the equally thorny task …
