Reinsurance
Iron-Starr Forms Underwriting Alliance With Hamilton Re
Ironshore Inc. has announced the addition of Hamilton Re as a subscribing insurer to the Iron-Starr Excess Agency Ltd. Iron-Starr currently underwrites on behalf of Ironshore Insurance Ltd. and Starr ...
AIR Worldwide Ups Cat Modeling Competition With Touchstone 2.0
Eighteen months after AIR Worldwide launched its Touchstone catastrophe modeling platform, the Boston company is rolling out version 2.0. Touchstone 2.0 includes a number of tweaks and advances to ...
Deadline Approaches for Aspen Shareholders on Endurance Proposals
With the target date for a vote on two governance proposals from Endurance Specialty Holdings approaching later this month, the ball is in the court of the shareholders of Aspen Insurance Holdings. ...
Andrew Carrier Jumps from Argo to Everest Re
Bermuda holding company Everest Re Group Ltd. is bringing on Andrew Carrier as the new president of Everest Advisors, U.K. and general manager of European Operations. Carrier was most recently chief ...
No El Niño Yet But Chances Remain High: U.S. Climate Center
A weather-changing El Niño has yet to develop in the Pacific Ocean, according to government forecasters are who maintaining a "watch" initiated in March. The chances that the warming of the ...
Low 1st Half Cat Impact: Top Asia, U.S. Losses Have Climate Link: Munich Re
Insured losses in the first half of 2014 were $17 billion, considerably below the $25 billion average over the past 10 years, according to Munich Re's 2014 Half-Year Natural Catastrophe Review. ...
Tower Group Shareholders to Vote on ACP Re Merger in August
Tower Group International's shareholders will finally get their chance to approve or reject a merger agreement with ACP Re, months after the proposed deal was first announced. The Bermuda insurer and ...
Swiss Re Sees Emerging Risks in Smart Cities and Rubber Tree Plants
Property/casualty and other insurers face a number of new emerging risks, and they're not necessarily what, or where, you'd think. Technological issues relating to smart cities, plant pathogens that ...