News
Defence strategy.
Germany is following in the UK's footsteps on pensions. Europe's leading economic power is now trying to defuse the demographic timebomb that is set to explode the state pension system and is searching for alternative provision, says Keith Sankey.
Kwik-Fit in training.
Kwik-Fit Insurance Services is to put 600 of its existing staff through the Chartered Insurance Inst...
Liquidation causes PPB levy rise.
As the industry comes to terms with the demise of Independent Insurance and the fiascoes at Equitabl...
Irish Life US sale.
Irish Life & Permanent has agreed to sell two US businesses, Interstate Assurance and First Variable...
Capita unveils employment cover.
Capita Assistance, formerly Eastgate Assistance, has launched a new employment practice liability pr...
Freight expectations.
The mystique surrounding goods in transit is fast disappearing and the way is clear for brokers to jump onto the market's tailgate. Rates are starting to rise and competition is fierce as companies look to load up on cover, says Simon Threadgold.
Not such a gay life.
Tory leadership candidate Michael Portillo has confessed to homosexual experiences while at Cambridg...
Appointment at Rosling King.
Solicitor Rosling King has made Peter Lewis and Helen Thurkettle partners and Madeleine James an ass...
QBE puts syndicate 318 on the market.
Australian insurer QBE is set to sell its short-tail property syndicate at Lloyd's, syndicate 318, as...
Bad debts covered.
Online insurance provider coverclick.com, backed by insurer Royal & Sun Alliance, has launched bad d...
Polaris gets InStep.
The Association of British Insurers has transferred the responsibility for its e-commerce department...
Fifty turned down Misys.
Despite an investment of £19m, Misys has closed its business to consumer online sites Screentrade an...
Indie blame Lloyd's insurer.
Wellington has blamed the collapse of Independent for having to raise its reinsurance provisions by ...
Appointment at Lincoln Financial Group.
Lincoln Financial Group has appointed Michelle Burgess as public relations executive, responsible fo...
Insurer moves in on Elcoates.
Ipswich-based Ryan Insurance has acquired Colchester company Elcoates Insurance services for an undi...
Truck case driver cleared.
North v TNT Express UK (Court of Appeal - 25 May 2001) The defendant's articulated truck was be...
Equasis suffering data problems.
Equasis, the web-based database containing quality and safety information on the world merchant flee...
Capital acquisition.
US giant GE Capital plans to acquire UK insurer National Mutual for £570m. The company is also looki...
No DVT hazard.
Suggestions made at last week's Association of Lloyd's Members' annual conference that Deep Vein Thr...
Collapse is EL for Irish builders.
The legacy of Independent's collapse is being felt in Ireland where several construction companies h...
EMB insurance move.
Actuary English Matthews Brockman has set up a company to develop and market general insurance actua...
Huge payout not an insurance worry.
A leading City claimant lawyer has played down fears that insurers should have anything to worry abo...
Alarm on the farm.
Motor insurance repair centre Thatcham aims to lower the incidence of agricultural machinery and pla...
Liabilities hit the roof.
Matalan v Tokenspire Properties and others (Technology & Construction Court - 18 May 2001) The ...