Miller bolsters reinsurance capabilities
April 10, 2011 by Timothy Wilkes · Leave a Comment
Miller has announced that it has enhanced its reinsurance capabilities team with the appointment of Mark Lambert.
Lambert, who formerly worked for AonBenfield ReSolutions, brings over a decade of experience in the reinsurance business to Miller.
He is particularly knowledgeable in the field of property catastrophe and risk XL business, in addition to casualty, personal accident and kidnap & ransom.
In 1993 he joined broker Alexander Howden’s non-marine retrocession team, focusing upon non-traditional solutions, and three years later moved on to Grieg Fester.
Following the Benfield takeover he became team leader of Benfield Structured Products in 2007, and later became co-leader of Aon Benfield ReSolutions.
James Geffen, head of Reinsurance at Miller, expressed his delight at Lambert’s appointment, adding that his skill set was highly complementary and enhanced the firm’s ability to provide unorthodox and practical reinsurance solutions for its clients.
??Paul Ryan’s Plan to Destroy Medicare
April 9, 2011 by Thomas Brownlee · Leave a Comment
As an opening salvo from Republicans in the 2012 budget debate, the plan offered by Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan—supposedly a model of “seriousness” and “courage” next to overzealous Tea Partiers and Democrats silly enough to want to keep the government minimally functional—is remarkable mostly for its cynicism.
Consider Ryan’s approach to Medicare. One of the most fundamental tensions in our politics is that senior citizens are, simultaneously, the demographic group that most benefits from the welfare state and the one most sympathetic to the right-wing push to abolish it. The only age group in which McCain beat Obama was voters 60 and older. Part of the rea
The Politics Of Health Reform: Picking The Strategies
April 8, 2011 by Timothy Wilkes · Leave a Comment
In the political fight surrounding the health law, reports that “individual stories” have emerged as a weapon of choice for Democrats and supporters of the measure. Meanwhile, Northeast Democrats are this week using thank you notes to make a point. It’s the fifth anniversary of Massachusetts state health overhaul and these partisans are streaming their appreciation to GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as a reminder that this measure is one of the models for the federal law.
Individual Stories Are Weapon Of Choice In Fight Over Health Care Law
With Republicans determined to disrupt implementation of the new health care law and promote their own fixes to Medicaid and Medicare, and Democrats hopeful of swaying a stubbornly divided public to embrace the law as it takes effect between now and 2014, no one expects the fight to let up anytime soon. And
House Republicans Propose $4 Trillion in Cuts Over Decade
April 5, 2011 by Thomas Brownlee · Leave a Comment
House Republicans plan this week to propose more than $4 trillion in federal spending reductions over the next decade by reshaping popular programs like Medicare, the Budget Committee chairman said Sunday in opening a new front in the intensifying budget wars.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” the chairman, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, also said Republicans would call for strict caps on all government spending that would require cuts to take effect whenever Congress exceeded those limits.
“We are going to put out a plan that gets our debt on a downward trajectory and gets us to a point of giving our next generation a debt-free nation,” Mr. Ryan sa
Viewpoints: Ryan On His Budget Plan; Maryland, Wash. State Making Tough Budget Choices
April 4, 2011 by Timothy Wilkes · Leave a Comment
The GOP Path To Prosperity
The open-ended, blank-check nature of the Medicare subsidy threatens the solvency of this critical program and creates inexcusable levels of waste. This budget takes action where others have ducked. But because government should not force people to reorganize their lives, its reforms will not affect those in or near retirement in any way. … Reform that empowers individuals—with more help for the poor and the sick—will guarantee that Medicare can fulfill the promise of health security for America’s seniors (Rep. Paul D. Ryan, 4/5).
Moment Of Truth
Today, Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, is scheduled to release the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes. Ryan is