Commercial
MetLife's $1bn cash buy.
New-York-based MetLife is to pay $1.2bn cash for General American Life while agreeing to pay £1bn to...
Online business - time to use it or lose it.
It is time for the talking to stop and the action to start. After years of discussion about the oppo...
Leaves too many questions.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Neither a waste of time nor money.
I was surprised to read that lawyers at Hill Dickinson believe the Woolf reforms are leading to esca...
In the wake of Woolf.
With the Woolf Reforms now several months' old, Ken Cannar looks at the impact that they have had so far and also on the ways in which they have still to affect legal cases for insurers.
NU fights disclosure case.
In 1989 Norwich Union marketed two kinds of plan to Lloyd's Names. Under the plans, NU provided a...
RSI: the heat is on.
The recent award of £10,000 to a blacksmith claiming damages for repetitive strain injury has reheat...
Laying down the law.
John Butler, Reinsurance's legal correspondent for 30 years, selects some of the defining moments in the history of reinsurance law.
Where the ART is ...
Reinsurers may be the most likely originators of early securitisation deals, but primary insurers ar...
St Paul Re targets health reinsurance.
St Paul Re has formed a unit to write health treaty reinsurance outside the US, focusing on managed ...
Appointment at XL Capital.
James Veghte, executive vice-president of Bermudian reinsurer XL Mid Ocean Re, has moved to head up ...
Job goes to Sutton.
The marketing manager post at Independent Insurance vacated by Michael Gaughan is to be taken by Gra...
IIB targets Internet sales.
The Institute of Insurance Intermediaries is launching a new company to help brokers compete for Int...
Salesmen in death plunge.
Two salesmen at a conference in Manchester died after falling through an eighth floor window. Dan...
It's life, but not as we know it.
The death of the traditional life office has been announced. Like the dinosaur they are poised to be...
Exclusive - £1.5m hole in Willis books.
Broker Willis is staring into a £1.5m financial hole which has been found in the accounts of its Lee...
Digital sales talk.
Digital TV is set to kick-off as a vehicle for insurance sales, according to speculation surrounding...
IBM targets personal lines.
IBM Global Insurance has unveiled the latest stage in its insurance marketing product, DecisionEdge,...
Appointment at Scottish Mutual.
Scottish Mutual Portfolio Managers has made two appointments. Kathryn Wood becomes investment manage...
NU's bargain web deal.
Insurance intermediaries can now untangle the mystery of the Web thanks to Norwich Union. The ins...
Woolf Reforms pushing up costs.
Far from reducing the cost of litigation as intended, the Woolf reforms are costing insurers more, a...
Trend spotting.
Convergence with the capital markets will join the current reinsurance trends of globalisation and the 'flight to quality' in the next decade, predicts Donald Watson, director of Standard & Poor's in New York.
Net sales support.
Brokat has launched an interactive Internet sales support application combining call centre and web ...
Iron Trades on track for Top 10.
Iron Trades appears to be steering a steady course in its bid to become one of the top 10 UK general...