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Hannover Re wants more capital options
German reinsurer Hannover Re plans to change its rules to allow it for the first time to raise capita...
Accidentcare strikes partnership with Sirius
Accident management company, Accidentcare, has struck a strategic partnership with software provide...
Standard commercial risk presentations planned
The British Insurance Brokers' Association, Polaris, broker software houses and service providers a...
THB Group confirms it is to be admitted to AIM
Lloyd's broker THB Group confirmed it is to be admitted to AIM, the London Stock Exchange's market ...
A watertight plan for flooding
The Association of British Insurers last week detailed insurers' new approach to properties in high-risk flood areas. Jane Milne gives the ABI's view.
Koukia details UK ambitions
Anglo-Australian insurance software provider Koukia has outlined its plan to return to the UK marke...
Senior Churchill Groups staff went 'back to the floor'.
Senior Churchill Group staff, including managing director John O'Roarke and chairman and chief execu...
John Sinnott to retire from broking giant Marsh
John Sinnott, chairman and chief executive officer of broking giant Marsh is to retire in July 2003...
Halifax General Insurance Services strikes deal with DAS.
Free before-the-event legal expenses insurance will be granted to around four million people, after ...
Aviva in deal with French bank group
Aviva has signed a bancassurance deal with French banking group Credit du Nord and French life insu...
Scope of regulation set to be extended
Anthony Gould and Jonathan Swift report on last week's Chartered Insurance Institute annual conference, which was held at the Birmingham ICC.
Appointment at CTC Services
Paul May has been appointed chairman and chief executive of CTC Services. He will continue as execu...
Donna Young wins Rutter Medal
Donna Young, an assistant underwriter with Marlborough Underwriting Agency, won the Rutter Medal fo...
BBB set to benefit from decision
Berkeley Berry Birch Insurance Brokers looks set to benefit from its parent company's decision to g...
Sirius centralises UK insurance arm
Software provider Sirius Financial Solutions has brought all its insurance operations under one roof ...
Speakers' points - in a nutshell
The industry is poorly prepared. Expertise has haemorrhaged from within and we have under-invested ...
Climate change: an insurance perspective
We read everyday about the threat of global warming and climate change but what does it really mean...
Business interruption losses rise
Business interruption losses associated with last year's US terrorist attacks have risen from 25% t...
D&G: no lag in turnover
With reference to Post Magazine, 29 August, D&G moves to ease shareholder fears, our claims ratio w...
Rehabilitation reviewed
Post Magazine's Rehabilitation First campaign began three years ago. Next week's update looks at how far the industry has come.
Structural changes
Dennis Mahoney, chairman and chief executive of Aon, in a whirlwind presentation, said he believed ...
Insurers defend flood opt-outs
The Association of British Insurers has defended its new guidelines for insurers offering flood pro...
Zurich plans to launch nationwide campaign
Zurich plans to launch a national TV, press and nationwide poster advertising campaign from tomorro...
Insurance on a plate?
Banks are in an ideal position to provide smaller businesses with cover and insurers and brokers are having to fight for a slice of the market. Some believe the solution is to offer commercial cover in bite-size chunks to satisfy a smaller company's…