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Insurance

Berkshire's BHSI expands France leadership with AIG, AXA XL hires

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has expanded its leadership team in France with the appointment of Katell Pouliquen as head of claims, Louis du Ché as head of property, and Ludovic Ruiller as head of environmental.   19 September 2019

Insurance

IGI to highlight workplace harassment at Dive In diversity event in Jordan

International General Insurance (IGI) is to focus on workplace harassment as it hosts the Dive In festival in Jordan later this month.   19 September 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

Markel taps Hamilton's Brenton Slade to build new ILS fund Lodgepine

Markel Corporation has hired Hamilton's Brenton Slade as president of Lodgepine Capital Management, its new retrocessional insurance linked securities (ILS) fund based in Bermuda.   19 September 2019

Insurance

Ascent hires MS Amlin's Paul Western as CUO post Cove merger

London-based cyber and specialty lines managing general agent Ascent Underwriting and Cove Programs, a US construction-focused MGA, has appointed Paul Western as group chief underwriting officer (CUO).   19 September 2019

Insurance

Coverys Managing Agency, which looks after Lloyd's syndicates 1975, 1991 and 3330, appoints David Hipkin as a non-executive director

Coverys Managing Agency, the Lloyd’s managing agent of Syndicates 1975, 1991 and 3330, has appointed David Hipkin as a non-executive director.   19 September 2019

Insurance

AIR Worldwide pegs typhoon Faxai insured losses between $3bn and $7bn

Catastrophe risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses from Typhoon Faxai, which made landfall in Japan on September 9, will be between JPY 340 billion ($3 billion) and JPY 740 billion ($7 billion).   16 September 2019

Insurance

Thai Floods the turning point for understanding risk

David Masters, director at S&P Global Ratings, traces the increasing regionalisation of pricing back to the Thai floods of 2011.   12 September 2019

Insurance

Distributed ledger technology will drive down costs: B3i

B3i wants to build a generic system for the insurance industry, and let insurers and brokers build their own proprietary systems that plug into it.   11 September 2019

Insurance

Marsh-JLT merger unsettles Bermuda captives: Quest

Quest, the captives servicing company, wants to hoover up disaffected captives, as well as growing the business among SMEs in the US and Europe   11 September 2019

Insurance

AXA XL homes in on government de-risking opportunities

Helping governments move risk off their books can provide the risk transfer industry with a big opportunity for growth—but a collaborative approach is required, Charles Cooper, chief executive of reinsurance at AXA XL, told Monte Carlo Today.   11 September 2019

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