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The standards setter.
After turning several businesses around, Mark Wood has the opportunity to repeat the trick by turning AXA into a world-beating company. He is supremely confident that he will succeed, says Tim Collison.
Appointment at Paisner & Co.
An expert in reinsurance dispute resolution, Simon Twigden recently became a partner at Paisner's re...
Warning that snowball effect of disasters will hit insurers hard.
Insurers will be caught out as a series of disasters in the next 18 months spell catastrophic effect...
Tanker claims drop during 90s.
The number of major tanker claims has dropped since the early 1990's, according to research supplied...
Appointment at Crawford-THG.
To strengthen its Midlands team, Crawford-THG has appointed Tim Thompson global risk director and Ni...
Taylor warns of Lloyd's slump ahead.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor warned of tough competition and falling profits at Lloyd's in the year a...
Confernce in Harrogate.
Delegates milling around the exhibition stands at the British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Asso...
Windscreen service.
Classic car lovers can contact a national windscreen replacement service network, following the anno...
Pet insurance.
This week is National Pet Week but, according to research by Woolwich Insurance Services, for some c...
Engineer's skills expand.
HSB Haughton Engineering Insurance Services has acquired SGS-INSTAT, the in-service inspection unit ...
Bumper site visits.
Independent market makers PolicyPlus, has seen over 8000 visits to its website since it's launch, en...
RIMS shows that bigger can be better.
The scale of the Risk and Insurance Management Society's conference is just breathtaking and says so...
Exclusive - Firms twister and shout over system.
Research has shown that Internet finance is set to boom in the European insurance market following t...
Insurers grasp at OFT hope.
The Office of Fair Trading has delayed the announcement of its decision on whether teleselling of he...
Appointment at Bacon & Woodrow.
Ian Daish has joined Bacon & Woodrow Guernsey and has been appointed to the board of Bacon & Woodrow...
Appointment at Crawford-THG.
Mark Harman has joined Crawford-THG as the company's chief financial officer, having moved from Arth...
Appointment at Swiss Re Life & Health.
Having joined the divisional executive board of Swiss Re L&H late last year, Ann Godbehere has been ...
Appointment at Horwich Farrelly.
Mark Hudson has been made a partner in Horwich Farrelly's Manchester office, where he will continue ...
Costing charitable choices.
Insurance companies have always had a close affinity with the charitable sector. Indeed, many of them had their origins in 19th century philanthropy. Nowadays, as Simon Threadgold reveals, attitudes are a little more hard-nosed.
Euro insolvencies rise.
Countries pushing towards the single european currency saw insolvencies rise during 1997, while thos...
London market.
Mayor of London hopeful, Lord Jeffrey Archer (pictured on a recent visit to the London Underwriting ...
Differential rates of IPT not compatible with EC law.
The Divisional Court granted a declaration on the application of travel insurance providers that the...
Harmless read of murder you wrote.
After reading 'Life Assurance as murder motive: the grim catalogue' (PM, 12 March, p63), and Carolin...