Reinsurance

Standard & Poor's today became the fourth major rating agency to lower its ratings for Bermuda-based IPCRe Ltd. in recent weeks, dropping the financial ...

Swiss Re will become the world's largest reinsurer with the execution of its agreement announced today to acquire GE Insurance Solutions, the fifth-largest reinsurer ...

State lawmakers have reacted favorably to a proposed public-private approach to cover natural catastrophe risks too large for the private market to handle by ...

A Boston insurance company pushing for extension of the federal terrorism reinsurance backstop has started a special Web site to help lobbying efforts for ...

XL Capital Ltd.'s announcement that the Bermuda-based insurer expects an unfavorable acquisition-related arbitration to result in an $830 million charge has been greeted with ...

Improved pricing conditions in the wake of record second-half catastrophe losses have prompted equity analysts to take a more optimistic view of the property-casualty ...

Insurance companies based in Latin America have improved their performance in recent years, according to a new study by Standard & Poor's, but it ...

Hurricane Wilma==which by some estimates may have inflicted a $12 billion insured loss==will put financial pressure on insurers and reinsurers but not enough to ...