It operates through the following segments: Industrial Lines, Retail Germany, Retail International, Reinsurance, and Corporate Operations.
Reinsurance companies may sue the investment banks and hedge funds whose holdings they guaranteed.
Some hedge funds that buy cat bonds even helped capitalize start-up Bermuda reinsurance firms.
They were on trial for an alleged reinsurance transaction that occurred between AIG and General Reinsurance.
But the Tohoku earthquake may not deliver any devastating blows to U.S. and Bermuda reinsurance firms.
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To mollify private insurers the feds will offer reinsurance above certain levels of liability.
Maybe, but you and your family owned a large percentage of First Executive's reinsurance subsidiary.
White Mountains Insurance is a property, casualty insurance and reinsurance company based in Bermuda.
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He raised premiums and slashed money-losing operations, while negotiating a reinsurance agreement with other insurers.
At the other end, reinsurance, the insuring of insurers, the float can last decades.
Rolf Tolle, a blunt-spoken reinsurance specialist from Germany, began the job in March 2003.
The Swiss found that running primary insurance requires different skills and expertise from reinsurance.
General Re is a holding company for reinsurance, capital analysis, insurance consulting and asset management.
Insurance companies depend on reinsurance to get through catastrophic events such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The initial description of reinsurance was that all insurers would be responsible for paying into the program.
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"We are told that under European law, reinsurance outside Europe is not hit by sanctions, " he said.
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Berkshire also owns a diverse array of operating companies, at whose heart are auto insurance and reinsurance.
The potential reward is good: Some reinsurance premiums for coverage in places like the Gulf Coast have doubled.
France is set to launch a reinsurance scheme like Britain's government-backed, mutually owned firm that reinsures terrorist risk.
Western Digital, Reinsurance Group of America and Tupperware Brands are a few stocks currently in my Neff-based portfolio.
Ivo Knoepfel of Swiss Re, a large reinsurance company, says his firm is keen to securitise international emissions-trading permits.
They also propose industry-funded reinsurance pools that would protect insurers against unanticipated risks.
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When AIG sold reinsurance coverage to General Reinsurance, was there much chance it would lose money on the deal?
Rollender said that reinsurance is an important industry for business intelligence and mapping.
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But he would charge high rates for the reinsurance, reducing the profits the insurers make on their traditional business.
Speculation that capital flows will surge as insurers bring in cash to for reinsurance payments also played its role.
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Its closest competitor in reinsurance, Swiss Re, went into primary insurance through a number of acquisitions in the mid-1980s.
St Paul Re, in Minnesota, cut its reinsurance operations by four-fifths in December.
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Alleghany, an American insurer, has got out of reinsurance, because of terrorist-related risks.
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The big Swiss reinsurance stocks are down big-time on fears about the cost of repairing the physical damage in Japan.
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