News
RSA continues to focus on general insurance
Royal & Sun Alliance has reinforced its global general insurance portfolio with a Swedish takeover an...
Direct Line buys US giant's European book
Direct Line, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland, is to acquire the European motor insurance b...
SFO to investigate Independent
The Serious Fraud Office is to investigate how Independent Insurance, which called in the provisional...
Indie appoints provisional liquidators
Pricewaterhouse Coopers, which was this morning appointed as provisional liquidators at Independent I...
US takes over UK as Lloyd's biggest market
Figures released by Lloyd's today have revealed that the United States has become the insurance marke...
New chairman for IUA
The International Underwriting Association has appointed Stephen Cane, chief executive officer of Ale...
RSA relaunches direct insurance arm
Royal & Sun Alliance has relaunched its direct insurance arm with a new name and brand — More Th>n....
Churchill to buy AMP's UK business
Financial group AMP has sold its Australian and UK general insurance businesses for about A$1.6bn. T...
Modest profits for DAS
Legal expenses insurer DAS Group has posted a modest increase in profits for 2000, with worse expecte...
Hannover Re joins internet exchange
The German group Hannover Re has joined Inreon, the internet-based trading exchange for standardised ...
Odyssey Re's partial flotation raises $308m
An initial public offering of 26% of the shares of Odyssey Re on the New York and Toronto stock excha...
Lloyd's nets Carter.
Lloyd's has appointed Max Carter as commercial director of lloyds. com, the market's internet portal...
Unlocking market potential.
Independent financial advisers are having to look elsewhere for income as they find their commission reduced by stakeholder. The greatest opportunities exist in corporate protection - particularly key person insurance - and they are using their…
Appointment at Mills & Reeve.
Mills & Reeve has appointed Mark Jeffries as managing partner. Mr Jeffries, currently head of the co...
Zurich Financial Services premiers first TV ad.
Zurich Financial Services has premiered its first television advertisement in the UK starring Peter ...
Paper-based solutions no answer to uninsured.
Where has Mr Nelson been for the last three years? (see below: 'Jersey initiative kept direct writers...
IFAs in training.
The Financial Services Authority is expanding its series of training & competence workshops to help ...
Evidence proves to be pest course of action.
Griffin v Clwyd Health Authority (Court of Appeal - 14 May 2001)
Willis group chairman celebrates.
Willis group chairman and chief executive Joe Plumeri celebrated on Tuesday, after the Willis Group ...
Time running out for Indie.
Independent Insurance has been warned by brokers that it must bring a swift resolution to its current...
Markel downgraded.
Rating agency Moody's has downgraded Lloyd's syndicate 1009, Markel Syndicate Management, from B+ ab...
L&G bonanza.
Broker Network member Craig Williamson, left, of Gretna-based CSW, won a luxury weekend in Paris, ca...
Medical examination.
Recent statistics show that while PMI is popular, it is preferred for payment responsibility to be in the hands of the company. Lynda Hardy Maskell says this could provide an ideal opportunity for the smaller corporate market.
Bright resigns from CII
Michael Bright, who this week resigned as an employee of Independent Insurance, which suspended takin...