Commercial
SVB moves to insulate itself from Lloyd's
SVB Holdings, which recently acquired CLM has moved its underwriting risks for the last three years t...
Appointment at Hill Dickinson.
Heather Baucher has joined the insurance department of law firm Hill Dickinson. She will move to the...
RSA boosts its critical illness cover.
Royal Sun Alliance has extended its critical illness cover to keep itself "at the forefront of busin...
An admirable effort.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Vital statistics.
Several new insurance call centres have been introduced to the market recently. Here we compare the facts and figures.
GISC must get its head out of the sand.
The plethora of recriminations about the General Insurance Standards Council's proposals for self-re...
Winner.
Mervyn Gibbs is the second winner in the Avon Insurance Combination Football competition. The sen...
Axa out to be Northern Ireland's no 1.
Axa aims to become the number one player in Northern Ireland. In the week that has witnessed momen...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY EXPRESS Everton footballer Slaven Bilic looks like ending his career with a multi-million i...
Insurer game to pay £1m prize to puzzle solver.
A Lloyd's insurer could be set to do what Chris Tarrant has so far failed to do - pay out a million ...
Axa picks lock firm.
Emergency response company Highway Glass and Locks has been appointed sole provider of glass frames ...
Insurers to keep euro assets.
Japan's major life insurers are to hold on to their euro-denominated assets - a decision described b...
DBS scraps national conference to regionalise.
Independent financial adviser chain DBS is increasing its regional meeting programme. It is set t...
Stake for sale.
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings has put its 49% stake in PPP Columbia, the joint venture which runs f...
Police ready for riot that never came.
Police at Liverpool Street Station in the City of London were out in force on Tuesday anticipating a...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny feels for Axa bigwig Andy Homer. The jet-setting Mr Homer pulled out all the stops in his hect...
Great Dane.
Recent start-up Danish Re (Re, October 1999, p14) wrote its first risk through its Lloyd's syndicate...
Breaking with tradition.
Dirk Lohmann tells Adrian Leonard why Zurich Re will not be a conventional reinsurer in a few years' time.
Time for action.
It is no good putting it off any longer. Any (re)insurers serious about the Internet and e-commerce ...
Axa Global Risks and Axa Re face merger.
Axa Re and Axa Global Risks have announced plans for a structural review that could see the two unit...
Clued up on e-commerce.
Fear is the main factor holding back the inevitable move to e-commerce in (re)insurance. Janina Clark reports.
Fewer trades and static prices.
This year's auction season suggests that Lloyd's is facing something of a watershed, with the corpor...
Slow to change in San Diego.
Janina Clark found few signs of improvement in the US reinsurance market at the NAII's annual meeting.
New CEO for Axa Ireland.
Axa's reorganisation of its Irish business has continued with the appointment of a new chief executi...