Mithun Varkey

The Singapore International Reinsurance Conference (SIRC) in the first week of November was a true testament to the Lion City's rise as a truly global (re)insurance hub and the event itself becoming a...

Global loss adjuster McLarens is looking to differentiate its business “by focusing more on specialist and complex problems” within the property and casualty sector, according to Gary Brown, chief exe...

New Zealand is set to modernise its insurance laws after the Contracts of Insurance Bill passed its third reading in the country's parliament on November 14.

Hannover Re will see a retrenchment in its data & technology team and the special project team in the Malaysian branch, which will see around 30 roles ceasing to exist by the end of the year, Insu...

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, a member of MS&AD Insurance Group, has announced a multi-year capacity agreement with Australian digital underwriting agency Argyle Insurance to offer SME insurance.

Generali Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) has appointed Nicholas Selff as head of underwriting for Asia. His appointment to the regional leadership team is effective November 18.

Lloyd's of London's Asia platform, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, is set to see more service companies join the platform next year as it looks set to cross the US$1 billion gross...

Japanese insurance groups' see windfall gains from unwinding of strategic equity holdings with the three groups reporting over JPY1.25 trillion (US$8 billion) in aggregate for the first half of the on...

Supersized court awards in the US, the so-called “nuclear” verdicts, have almost trebled since 2020, while the median verdict value has more than doubled, according to a report by Allianz Commercial.

China Re-owned Lloyd's syndicate Chaucer has appointed Jonathan Ng as class underwriter in its political risk team in Singapore.