I subscribe to a daily e-mail of interesting factual snippets from delanceyplace.com. Today’s entry is from George Soros’ book, the The New Paradigm for Financial Markets (Public Affairs, Copyright 2008 by George Soros) and contains an interesting account of the roots of the sub-prime crisis, worth quoting in full: “The [real estate] crisis was slow [...]
From the monthly archives:
September 2008
Legal 500 have named your scribe as a Leading Individual in the “Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation” arena. Here’s the full list: Tim Akeroyd Elborne Mitchell Jane Andrewartha Clyde & Co LLP Martin Bakes Herbert Smith LLP [...]
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A lecture given by Dr Lawson Brigham At the Institute of Marine Engineering Science & Technology (IMarEST) 8 September 2008 Please note that these are not authorised notes, but simply the result of my jottings at great speed during this fascinating talk. I may not have taken certain things down entirely accurately, though I think the broad thrust [...]
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Two years ago, I was doing a deposition with a witness in a very long-running, very messy and very costly reinsurance dispute. It was the third time that we had been through the process, with various parties, so we were very familiar with the facts, the issues and the questions likely to be put. Asking [...]
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I’m honoured. Lexis Nexis have chosen Re Risk as one of the Top 50 insurance law-related blogs in the whole world. I’m willing to bet there are only 37 in total, so being in the Top 50 is great. Here’s how they describe us: Features provocative insight on risk, re-/insurance and future thinking with a [...]
Amazing shots of hurricanes, taken from up in space. This is Ivan, one of the strongest hurricanes on record, taken on Saturday, Sept 11th, 2004 from an altitude of about 230 miles by Astronaut Edward M. Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, looking out the window of the International Space Station. At the time, [...]
Willis boss Joe Plumeri tells the FT that without serious (think $50bn-$100bn) catastrophe losses, it could be the end of 2009 or into 2010 before rates recover. “All the signs are that I don’t think the soft market is going to last a long long time . . . but it does not seem [...]
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Infectious prions–the things that cause BSE–can not only jump species barriers, but can also create new, potentially harmful prions in the infected host. That is the finding of recent research at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Nature reports that Generally, prions are limited to a specific host and a few related species. But [...]
I came across this story in an edition of the Times from 2007. Basically, this guy awoke to find the staff manouevring into the seat next to him the body of a little old lady who had died shortly after take off. Leaving aside the self-pitying reaction of the passenger–”I’m paying £3,000 for this“–parts of the [...]
