Beazley has opened its first office in Miami and its tenth in the US. The new office will focus on the development of reinsurance business from Latin America...

The Missouri Captive Insurance Association has appointed Maria Sheffield as its new captive programme manager...

Graeme Moore has been recruited to the management team of Willis Re’s specialty division. He will report to the firm’s global CEO, John Cavanagh...

Peter Strauss, managing member of the Strauss Law Firm, recently claimed that the Bahamas has “risen from captive insurance extinction”...

A.M. Best has withdrawn the financial strength rating of “B++ (Good)” and issuer credit rating of “bbb”of Healthcare Safety & Protection Risk Retention Group (HSPRRG) following its dissolution...

The Self-Insurance Institute of America has increased its lobbying efforts to push for passage of federal legislation to reauthorise the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act...

Dana Sheppard, associate commissioner of the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities & Banking (DISB) has explained that Washington DC is not in favour of medical stop-loss captives...

A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A (Excellent)” and issuer credit rating of “a” of Eastern Re. The outlook for both ratings is stable...

ACE Group has increased it critical catastrophe limits to $30 million across all its North American retail and wholesale broker-distributed commercial property lines of business...

Brown Smith Wallace has appointed Darrick Fulton as an insurance advisory services manager...

Hiscox Re has appointed four new members to its underwriting team who will join CEO, Jeremy Pinchin on the management team...

The ratification of a Double Taxation Agreement between Jersey and Hong Kong has been welcomed by Jersey Finance, expanding its growing business in the Far East...