Since its 1981 inception as a traditional London market reinsurance magazine, Reactions has evolved to meet the fast changing information needs of the global insurance and reinsurance market.
“I’m in the optimistic camp right now,” says SCOR Global P&C Chief Executive Officer Jean-Paul Conoscente – and while many executives in his position might offer such a statement...
Generali, Italy’s largest insurer, announced it would underwrite more sustainable businesses and commit to “green” investments by ceasing to offer coverage for new coalmines and plants – but a new revelation by...
US insurer Lemonade has become of the first American firms in the market take a stance against investments in fossil fuel or coal-related business. According to Daniel Schreiber, chief...
Munich Re has become the latest re/insurer to limit its investments in firms operating within the coal mining industry. The company will no longer invest in bonds and shares of companies that...
As the issue of climate change and sustainability permeates its way into the business world, the re/insurance industry is stepping up its sustainable initiatives, especially in the field of thermal coal...
Kieran Wilson joins the Spanish insurer from Argo Global Syndicate 1200.
More multi-year purchases and higher limits are being bought on European environmental impairment liability policies, Marsh has said, but prices are still soft. Uptake of environmental impairment liability (EIL) insurance has risen in Europe, Marsh has reported...
The US insurance broker has added three new leaders to its Houston-based global energy and power practice, all from rival Lockton. Rick Dowling, Karey Vaught and James Arcidiacono have been appointed as three new managing directors...
The upstream/offshore energy market is caught between soft reinsurance rates and pressure on clients suffering from the oil price plunge. Nowhere else in the re/insurance sector is the mismatch between supply and demand so pronounced than within the offshore energy business...
Downstream insurers are suffering as the value of oil declines leading to some refiners cutting production while an ever expanding insurer base fights over reduced premium volume. The life of a downstream energy company is, at present...
