Reinsurance

WASHINGTON--The reinsurance industry's vital signs are showing vast improvement over 2005's disastrous, catastrophe-marred results, according to statistics released today by the Reinsurance Association

Maine Superintendent of Insurance, Alessandro Iuppa, 53, announced today he will cut short his term and leave his appointive post Jan. 13, 2007, a few weeks after concluding his presidency with the Na

The property-casualty insurance industry is a "cheapskate" when it comes to political expenditures, according to Ernst Csiszar, who--as a former regulator, insurance company head and trade association

Pronouncements by analysts about soft casualty insurance prices are based on inaccurate broker surveys and are overblown, a top insurer told the Annual Executive Conference for the Property-Casualty

Donald Kramer, chairman and chief executive officer of Bermuda-based Ariel Reinsurance, made his comments at an industry meeting here in response to remarks last week by William Berkley, CEO of Green

Donald Kramer, chairman and CEO of Bermuda-based Ariel Reinsurance, speaking at an industry meeting here, said he believes "rating agencies need to be more transparent and possibly come under some for

NEW YORK--The head of a U.S. property-casualty insurer is so incensed about tax advantages foreign competitors have over U.S. counterparts that he's set a personal goal to have the situation changed, h

But Andrew Castaldi, senior vice president for Americas Hub Swiss Reinsurance Group, based in Armonk, N.Y., said that such funds concentrate too much similar risk in a given area, and end up merely