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Pump-action cure for NHS crash costs.
I read with interest the article 'Health cost charges threat to car insurance' (PM 21 Jan, p2). O...
Appointment at Lehmann Communications.
Michael Cole, who during the 1980s was a distinguished foreign and court correspondent for the BBC, ...
CS Rand fixes Y2K.
CS Rand has completed a Year 2000 project for Lloyd's broker group Ballantyne, McKean and Sullivan. ...
Appointment at Legal & General.
Former chief economic advisor to the Treasury, Lord Burns, has been made a non-executive director of...
GE Capital to reorganise its core groups.
The financial services arm of giant US company General Electric Company has moved to buttress its co...
Nissan pleads with insurers.
Car manufacturer Nissan has called on motor insurers not to drastically raise premium prices on one ...
Au revoir GRE.
French insurer Axa, whose £3.4bn bid for Guardian Royal Exchange was this week recommended to shareh...
Insurex Expo-Sure has devised a guide.
Insurex Expo-Sure has devised a step by step guide for people organising millennium parties. From ch...
Insurer quits Africa.
Clerical Medical has announced that it is to cease writing new business in Africa, Switzerland and m...
Rising son.
Jeffrey Greenburg, son of AIG chairman Maurice Greenberg, has been appointed president of J&H Marsh ...
Scot-Prov relaunch.
Scottish Provident International has relaunched its Select product with several extra investment opp...
Early settlement.
Insurers have been told to settle claims early to avoid extra costs with occupational disease claims...
Riley leaves Swiss Re.
Stephen Riley, chief executive of Swiss Re's non-life operations in the UK, has left the company aft...
Top Layer for Renaissance.
Bermudian reinsurer Renaissance Re and giant US insurer State Farm have teamed up to provide up to $...
Lloyd's 1999 capacity falls.
Lloyd's underwriting capacity for 1999 will be £9.87bn ($16.3bn), down from £10.17bn last year, the ...
Vietnamese reinsurer boosts income.
South Vietnam's state-owned reinsurer, the Vietnam National Reinsurance Corp. (Vinare), has reported...
Ace takes over Cigna's p&c.
Acquisitive Bermudian insurance group Ace is to pay $3.45bn for US insurer Cigna's property and casu...
US cat losses up.
Catastrophe losses of more than $10bn made 1998 the third worst year for catastrophes in the last de...
Rhine Re gets Zurich team.
Basel-based Rhine Re has recruited the former executive management team of Zurich Re London to head ...
Partners for progress.
James Orr explains how the UK Tsunami initiative is getting (re)insurers and scientists working together.
Captives hold their own in tough times.
Despite challenging market conditions the use of captives continues to grow. Tony Dowding reports.
Reinsurers learn to test the temperature.
You may not be able to predict the weather, but you might be able to hedge against severe weather events. Robert Muir-Wood explains the weather risk market.
Medical move for IGI.
Lloyd's underwriting agency IGI is moving into the medical reinsurance market in a tie-up with US me...
When the music stops.
Most of us as children probably played musical chairs, the party game in which a group of players ci...