News
Inreon tie-up.
Reinsurance platform Inreon has appointed technology specialist Wild-net, a subsidiary of UK-based r...
ABI too complacent on mould.
Insurers could face civil and criminal prosecution over mould, according to water damage restoration ...
Independent on a precipice.
Independent Insurance is in an awful mess, and investors and City watchers alike are nervous and dis...
Insurers face ATE payouts.
The liability insurance industry has lost one of its central arguments in the case of Callery v Gray...
Dismissal: court out on manner.
Johnson v Unisys (House of Lords - 22 March 2001).
TUG partnership.
Towergate Underwriting Group has become the preferred provider of general insurance products to the ...
Coversure helps out.
Coversure Insurance Services is providing all 60 brokers in its franchise network with the facilitie...
Appointment at Chubb.
Chubb Europe has made Jalil Rehman claims manager for Europe and has promoted Jonathan Dye to the po...
Entering industry as a qualified success.
Fiona Heggie looks at the career-boosting advantages of entering the industry with a raft of insurance qualifications.
FSA list slammed.
The Financial Services Authority has been criticised for the way it plans to list comparative tables...
Appointment at James Chapman & Co.
Manchester-based insurance litigation firm James Chapman & Co has appointed Jeff Williams as a senio...
Appointment at Munters.
Munters has appointed Bruce Myers as customer liaison officer based at Halifax General Insurance Ser...
Eventura launched.
Surrey-based technology company, TISL is targeting the insurance industry with its new product Event...
Casualties loom for Solicitors' PI players.
Insurers in the solicitors' professional indemnity sector are facing further heavy losses next seaso...
Appointment at Medicash.
Liverpool-based health cash plan provider Medicash has recruited Wendy Dawson to take on a partnersh...
Brokersure.go ready for lift off.
Cox Insurance Holdings' internet-based broking system brokersure.go is now "fully developed" and rea...
NIG profits rise.
Broker-only insurer NIG has reported a pre-tax profit for 2000 of £22m. Gross assets increased to ov...
Insurers face mobile litigation import.
The spectre of substantial pay-outs for risks associated with mobile phone use resurfaced for UK ins...
McLarens joint venture on hold.
Claims management specialist Town and Country's joint venture with McLarens Toplis has been put on ho...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill.
Allianz Cornhill has appointed Mihir Pandya as its claims controller, with special responsibility fo...
FSA unveils new risk approach.
A new approach to risk management was unveiled by the Financial Services Authority last week, with t...
Ovenden heads IRM.
The Institute of Risk Management has appointed former Association of Insurance and Risk Managers cha...
Feeley at the wheel.
Kevin Feeley has been appointed active underwriter of Lloyd's motor syndicate 963, part of the strug...
BPL extends into France.
Niche Lloyd's broker Berry Palmer & Lyle, a trade credit and political risk insurance specialist, ha...