Should trend become more popular, vehicles could bring discipline to the

Start-ups, emerging in time for Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals, grow up in a

Three former General Reinsurance executives and one who was once with American International Group pleaded innocent last week to charges that they helped AIG improperly bolster its earnings reports.

Willis Re's Bermuda-based Executive Vice President James Kent noted that in the first half of the year, island carriers handed $1.2 billion in capital back to investors in the form of share buy-backs