Reinsurance
Alleghany’s TransRe Commuting A&E Cover; Paying AIG, Berkshire $400M
Weston Hicks's Alleghany Corp. will pay $400 million to wind down reinsurance deals with American International Group Inc. and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. for policies that date back ...
Anadarko Petroleum Must Pay Nearly $160M for 2010 Gulf Spill, Below U.S. Wishes
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. was ordered to pay almost $160 million for its role as part-owner of the doomed Gulf of Mexico well that in 2010 caused the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The ...
Cyber Attacks Becoming Significant Threat to Insurer Credit Quality: A.M. Best
Insurance rating agency A.M. Best still considers natural catastrophe losses to be the primary threat to the financial strength and credit quality of property/casualty insurers, but cyber-attack ...
Hurricane Stats Tallied as Atlantic Season Ends
While meteorologists were on target with their predictions of a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season, there was some activity to report, according to the Insurance Information Institute. I.I.I. ...
Eight Lloyd’s Syndicates Commit $400M Capacity to Fill Cat Protection Gap
Eight Lloyd's syndicates are joining forces to tackle the problem of underinsurance in emerging economies across Latin America, Africa, and Asia—committing capacity of $400 million towards ...
Climate Change Will Spur Future Sovereign Ratings Downgrades: S&P
Thailand's credit rating downgraded by two levels. Dominican Republic lowered one grade. These are not real news headlines yet, but could be, according to scenarios outlined by Standard & Poor's. ...
Pre-Climate Conference Report: Rate of Weather Disasters Doubled in 20 Years
Weather-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report ...
Parisian Businesses Can Seek Help from Terrorism Reinsurance Fund
Parisian businesses struggling after the Nov. 13 attacks are likely to be able to make successful insurance claims, helped by a state-backed fund set up in the wake of the Sept. 11 2001 attacks in ...