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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
October 10, 2011
A blow-by-blow recounting of the ongoing, dramatic, multi-party efforts at a mega-deal.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 26, 2011
Business has picked up in the bidding for Transatlantic Holdings since the New York-based reinsurer and Allied World Assurance called off their proposed merger, as Transatlantic says it has entered into two confidentiality agreements: one with Validus Holdings and one with an undisclosed third party.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 12, 2011
Even as Bermuda executives chatted up the Jan. 1, 2012 reinsurance pricing upside of catastrophe events and model changes recently, midyear 2011 renewal strategies varied widely along with opinions about where to bet reinsurance capital.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 8, 2011
Berkshire Hathaway’s National Indemnity Co. has put in a competing bid for Transatlantic Holdings Inc.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 4, 2011
Catastrophe-loss hits—and the added potential price-moving impetus of a catastrophe model change—were front and center as management teams for half of the players in the Bermuda market disclosed first-half losses and strategies for preserving capital to take advantage of a Jan. 1 pricing upturn.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 4, 2011
In spite of the fact that two Bermuda players are engaged in a heated battle over a global-casualty reinsurer, the intensity of the contest in no way suggests that the casualty market is hardening, according to one of the potential acquirers.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 28, 2011
Transatlantic Holdings Inc. is urging stockholders to reject a $3.5 billion unsolicited merger offer from Validus Holdings Ltd.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 18, 2011
Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings and Validus Holdings continue the back-and-forth fight to acquire Transatlantic Holdings.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 13, 2011
Validus Holdings has swooped in on Allied World Assurance to make a $3.5 billion bid to buy Transatlantic Holdings.
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By Staff Writer |
March 15, 2010
Validus Holdings, Ltd. said its initial maximum estimate of losses from the recent earthquake in Chile and European Windstorm Xynthia was $300 million.
