News
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...
Claims Direct denies solvency problems after board reshuffle.
Claims Direct has denied it has been in buyout talks with Zurich Municipal or that it is experiencin...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Politicians councillors and senior council officers are 18% more likely to ha...
AMA hits out at spot hire tactics.
The Accident Management Association has hit out at the insurance industry's spoiler tactics in stopp...
Lloyd's: hard Labour.
With all the speculation over who will be the next Tory leader following Labour's landslide election ...
Woolf keen to strike no win, no fee balance.
Lord Woolf looks to have taken his first steps on the road to creating a level playing field for the...
Derby arson attack.
Loss adjuster PCS was called to the scene of a suspected arson attack at the recently-vacated office...
IIB: final chance.
The Institute of Insurance Brokers was notified this week that its hearing with the Competition Comm...
Visit from Groupe Eyssautier.
Lloyd's raised the French tricolour last week in honour of a visit from Paris-based Groupe Eyssautie...
Endsleigh launch.
Student insurance specialist Endsleigh has launched a new policy for young professionals living in s...
Mergers inevitable in wake of catastrophic underwriting.
Mergers or closures of insurers in the large corporate risk sector in the UK are inevitable, accordi...
SW: windfall blow.
Some Scottish Widows policyholders have been asked to hand back windfall payments made by mistake, a...