Specialist insurer Hiscox has appointed Penny Shaw as its chief risk officer...
A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength and issuer credit ratings of Vermont-based Agrinational Insurance Company as “A- (Excellent)” and “a-” respectively. It added that the outlook for both ratings is stable...
Consulting firm Protiviti has appointed Lindsay Dart as a managing director in its London office...
Willis Group Holdings has been issued with a full commercial lines licence to conduct insurance intermediary services in Guernsey under the Insurance Managers and Insurance Intermediaries Bailiwick of Guernsey Law, 2002...
Towers Watson has appointed Ross Howard as the global leader for its insurance and reinsurance brokerage business. Howard replaces Bill Eyre, who is taking up a new role to focus on client and market relationship development...
Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) told a group of National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) officials on a conference call that stop-loss insurance carriers should not be subject to medical loss ratio...
Spring Consulting Group has hired Ryan Ralston a senior risk management consultant...
The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority has signed an information exchange agreement with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS)...
The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has said that it remains confident that Bermuda will be successful in its bid to win equivalence with Europe’s Solvency II Directive following high-level talks with officials in Brussels earlier in June...
Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that 739 international insurance entities had licences at the end of May 2012—there were 687 at the end of December 2011...
On June 29, RGA Reinsurance Company, a subsidiary of Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), entered into a binding letter of intent with John Hancock Life Insurance Company...
Montpelier Reinsurance, the Bermuda reinsurance subsidiary of Montpelier Re Holdings named Dr Gero Michel as head of risk analytics...