Insurance, caught in the midst of the subprime crisis

The current financial crisis has unveiled the weakness of a market whose players have no control over the aspects pertaining to…

The 2005 assessment

Described by the Wild World Fund (WWF)'s report as the hottest, the driest and the most tormented in the history of the earth,…

Hurricane Katrina, the big one

Hurricane Katrina, which lashed the south of the United States on August 29, 2005, is regarded as the most devastating of all…

Iraq, Libya , Syria: New legislations

Algeria, 2005 reinsurance renewal

After several harsh years and a 2004 renewal marred by the Boumerdès earthquake of May 23, 2003, the Algerian insurers have, in…

Morocco

Reform of rating agencies

Investigations by regulatory bodies, searches, seizures of documents, submission of complaints, etc. Standard & Poor's, Moody…