Suffering Is No Excuse For Denying Claims: Gen Re Exec

Although U.S. reinsurers are still recovering from the effects of business they wrote in the 1990s, the fact that theyre suffering does not give them a reason to delay the payment of claims, one reinsurance executive said recently.

Joseph Brandon, chief executive officer of General Re Corp., part of Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., offered an industry insider's view of the rough-and-tumble environment in the U.S. reinsurance market of the past few years during the Standard & Poors insurance conference last month.

Want to continue reading?
Become a Free PropertyCasualty360 Digital Reader

Your access to unlimited PropertyCasualty360 content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:

  • Breaking insurance news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
  • Weekly Insurance Speak podcast featuring exclusive interviews with industry leaders
  • Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
  • Critical converage of the employee benefits and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, BenefitsPRO and ThinkAdvisor
NOT FOR REPRINT

© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.