Lloyd’s/London
Kiln plans stake in insurance start-up
Lloyd's insurer Kiln plans to buy a stake in a new Financial Services Authority-regulated UK insure...
Lloyd's set for profit rise
Lloyd's insurers are predicting substantial profits for 2002, with significant rate increases and a...
Tackling litigation
A number of legal cases have once again thrust sporting litigation into the limelight and with the pace of the compensation culture showing little sign of slowing, the government and sporting bodies must all play their part to help prevent sporting cases…
Society of Fellows goes as new body formed
The Chartered Insurance Institute has jettisoned the Society of Fellows, replacing it with a new bo...
Rebriefs - Equitas to increase asbestos reserves
Equitas, which reinsures Lloyd's, said that it might have to increase asbestos reserves at the end ...
Fit to be insured?
Insurers looking for a healthy niche market need look no further than gyms and fitness clubs, although there are still stumbling-blocks to keep the risk managers well exercised. Simon Threadgold gets physical.
Lloyd's new unitary board looks outside
Lloyd's this week announced the formation of the new 11-member unitary board to manage the insuranc...
London Market Brokers' Committee on target
The London Market Brokers' Committee claims it is on target to place almost three quarters of all b...
Solution broker
Jonathan Palmer Brown, aviation chairman of the London Market Insurance Brokers' Committee, has been instrumental in developing a global scheme to provide third-party liability cover for airlines. He tells Eric Alexander about his efforts.
Appointment at Wellington
David Gittings has left the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) after less than six months as d...
Keeping sports in the running.
The amateur sports industry is suffering due to the lack of liability capacity in the sector. One of the only ways for sports clubs to get off their marks is to implement risk management strategies. Alan Hootton suggests the UK market should look at the…
Equitas optimistic over prospects.
Lloyd's run-off company Equitas has told reinsured Names that although the US asbestos litigation la...
Monument Insurance Brokers to broaden scope of operations.
Monument Insurance Brokers, the Lloyd's broking arm of the Primary Group, plans to significantly bro...
Appointment at Wellington Underwriting Agencies.
David Gittings, the inaugural senior adviser on insurance regulation at the Financial Services Autho...
Appointment at Sportscover.
Sports insurance underwriter Sportscover has recruited Alan Hootten as branch manager for its UK ope...
ABI turns up pressure on government over EL
The Association of British Insurers is to raise the pressure on the government to reform the existing...
Wrapper comes off reforms
Lloyd's has signalled an aggressive approach to future underwriting as part of detailed plans for ref...
Wrapper comes off reforms.
Lloyd's has signalled an aggressive approach to future underwriting as part of detailed plans for ref...
CMGL to focus on disease.
Claims management service provider CMGL has appointed Ian Finlayson as head of its non-London market...
RI3K eyes general.
Software developer RI3K plans to enter the UK, European and US life and general insurance sectors by...
RI3K summit hopes to boost electronic trading
Electronic trading company RI3K believes there will be more on-line trading "in the coming weeks" as ...
Brokers split over Indie payment wranglings.
Legal action looks increasingly likely in the wranglings over premium and commission payments on can...
Indie chief's house price slips.
The estate agent selling the luxury home of the ex-chief executive of collapsed insurer Independent,...
Lloyd's to experiment in quest to raise £20bn.
Lloyd's is examining an early release of profits to aid beleaguered Names, who have had to pay over ...