FacWorld Report - The Links Edition

Hi and welcome back to the FacWorld Report!

Since the last edition, we have had a large increase in Profile holders and are pleased to welcome new readers to the Report. We hope that Report readers, new and old, will continue to derive value from the e-mailing.

Previous editions of the FacWorld Report have been article based reports. This month we are pleased to present a website links edition. Underwriters at GeneralCologne Re have been using the Internet extensively in the last few years to help underwrite risk. This edition covers numerous classes of business in different jurisdictions, we hope that the pages can help share some of the sites our underwriters have found useful. We appreciate your comments and if you have further web pages to add, please write to us.

This edition is led off by an article by Chris Henson, a Vice President of GeneralCologne Re, who works in Stamford. Chris is an insightful thinker on e-commerce and his article "Clicks & Mortar - the empire strikes back" sums up this edition - It's not the technology that's useful, it's how people use it that counts.
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The underwriting of Directors & Officers Liability is well suited to the web. In the page below are links to numerous sites that have been of use to our underwriters, checking share dealing, company financials and so on. The page contains links in English, German and Spanish Languages.
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We would like to introduce on the web our United Kingdom & Ireland Financial Lines team. The page below shares links to some of the areas of their expertise - Employment Practices, Financial Institutions Liability and Professional Indemnity for Solicitors, Engineers, Architects, Accountants and Insurance Brokers. The page also highlights sites one can subscribe to for regular updates.
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Mining has become an area of specialism within GeneralCologne Re's Global Property Fac Department. The web is full of sites, which illustrate equipment used, national organisations and the work of different mining companies. Gavin Rowatt of our Toronto branch has collected sites that show activity in the USA, South Africa, Canada, the UK, Australia and the Netherlands.
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Product Recall is a class which lends itself well to web-research. We would like to take this opportunity to both introduce our Global Network and share their findings on useful sites, often run by consumer groups. The page contains links in English, French and German Languages.
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FacWorld has hosted an earthquake links page since our birth in November last year. For this edition, we have added some new links (including links to Earthquake Photo collections) and emphasised contact to our speciality Network. The researching of Earthquakes is as fascinating as it is vital. Earthquakes are the least understood of natural disasters and the attempt to comprehend them can be helped greatly by the resources on the web.
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Scandinavian nations had some the highest early penetration of the Internet. The page below has links to GeneralCologne Re underwriters in our Copenhagen office and to Insurance and Law sites of note in the various jurisdictions.
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We would like to introduce our Paris Property Department and share some of the French sites that are available for research and reference. Notable in these is a site which contains an exhaustive listing of all declared French National Catastrophes since 1984. The page is in French.
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Coming Soon!
In our Bumper December Renewal Season edition we will be featuring the usual selection of articles and litigation updates and the first in a three part series on Non-Proportional Property Reinsurance.