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Environment Agency to increase flood protection to 200 000 homes
Promise included in 2010-2015 corporate strategy.
AA Insurance enters commercial fray with affinity deal
Moorhouse chair Lyndon Wood hails tie-up with broker.
Groupama downsizes London operation
Insurer to depart the Minories for America Square
Brit claims Lloyd's Exchange first
Insurer makes endorsement agreement with Miller
IIB in loss adjusting tie-up
CEO Bradshaw believes members will benefit from Questgates move.
Beazley GWP up 45% boosted by strengthening dollar
CEO Andrew Horton said its recession planning had been"robust".
AIG reports $455m profit
Benmosche claims performance has stabilised
Aviva appoints Thornside to develop pet insurance offering
Thornside to provide policy for the next three years.
Aviva offers small motor traders more choice
Named driver alternative offered to traders with up to six named drivers.
RBSI income rises to £1.12bn
Combined ratio deteriorates due to "significant" hike in claims
Markel appoints property underwriter
Emma Brown joins insurance company from Allied World
Motor fleet specialist joins QBE
Doug Jenkins joins insurer's Chelmsford operation
Brit strikes deal with Truckview
Insurer aims to cut accidents in its motor fleet
Markel International profit back in black
Combined ratio improves 45 percentage points in Q3 results
Zurich records 138% hike in operating profit
CEO James Schiro claims the insurance group is "well positioned" for the future.
RSA UK premiums slip 3%, as SME and commercial motor suffer
Group CEO Andy Haste, however, sees encouraging signs in international and emerging markets.
In a bind
Ben Hobby asks whether technology can be used for the day-to-day management of binding authorities and, if not, what other tools are available to underwriters.
Policing the impossible
These days insurers will not turn a blind eye to clients that have failed to check the details of their sub-contractors' policies, says Ed Lewis.
Shining through the murk
With much higher rates of major injury than the average in all service industries, Daniel Dunkley looks at what the construction industry can do to combat this, including regulating gangmasters.