QBE national general manager Elliot Miller selects his Best XI for an insurance start-up. Miller has selected an entirely Scottish team, including a former Rangers legend in goal and a range of brokers...
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08 May 2012
Marsh has reached an agreement to sell a portfolio of four businesses within Gibbs Hartley Cooper, a part of Marsh UK, to R K Harrison.
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02 May 2012
With Willis the latest broker to perform a u-turn on contingent commissions, how will the market react?
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01 May 2012
RSA last week pledged to invest £5m in Northern Ireland, intent on becoming the country's leading insurer, but local analysts are divided as to whether this will prompt a flurry of interest in the market or whether its small size will continue to discourage...
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24 Apr 2012
QBE has recruited Martin Devaney to its risk management services team as senior client risk manager.
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23 Apr 2012
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This week the recruitment space belonged to Canopius and Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford. Canopius restructured its entire executive committee, alongside appointing an underwriter, while CGSC recruited a new chief commercial officer, head of operations...
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17 Apr 2012
Broker Marsh has said that the scale of catastrophes in 2011 exceeded previous loss-modelling predictions and has challenged established thinking on the nature of risk.
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16 Apr 2012
The latest issue of Post is now available to subscribers as a digital and interactive e-book.
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04 Apr 2012
The Association of British Insurers has slated the flood reinsurance idea floated by broker Marsh and Guy Carpenter, claiming that it won't work and insurers don't back it.
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04 Apr 2012
Marsh and Guy Carpenter have published provisional details of their flood reinsurance plan known as Project Noah after testing it with insurers.
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03 Apr 2012
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The bosses behind the Project Noah flood solution believe proposals to establish a UK risk pool with £14bn of reinsurance capital could provide a crucial solvency boost for insurers with IPO ambitions.
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03 Apr 2012
Marsh has appointed Edwin Charnaud as chairman of its global infrastructure practice.
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02 Apr 2012
It has been a tumultuous few years for the insurance industry, and not many sectors have been affected as much as energy.
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27 Mar 2012
Marsh's series of energy insurance training courses have been accredited by the Chartered Insurance Institute following a six-month CII assessment, which included a review of the learning and evaluation materials, training sessions and the course leaders...
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27 Mar 2012
After two slow weeks, the broking sector has seen an upswing in activity, with a number of large players making high-profile appointments.
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06 Mar 2012
Horseracing-mad Dominic Burke has huge ambitions for JLT, with a firm focus on international expansion, and he scotches...
Despite 2012 losses being only 12% of the annual average to date, a single incident could flip the market, says David...
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Editor's comment: Fleeing the family nest
This week’s deal developments read like two coming-of-age literary fables written to reward hard work and endeavour, while...