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MPs debate Chester Street collapse
In a debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the collapse of Chester Street Insurance, the gover...
Fairfax Q1 profit falls
(Re)insurance group Fairfax Financial has reported a 14% drop in its profits for the first quarter of...
Q-Max to help Budget with staffing.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Window into insurance.
This week sees the launch of Post Magazine's internet-based service, insurancewindow.net, the perfect complement to our successful website Postmag.co.uk.
Cooper and Gay: Jones steps down.
Michael Jones, executive chairman of Lloyd's broker Cooper and Gay, is to step down from his executi...
Art theft site update.
Website www.FindStolen Art.com, which aims to assist police forces across the UK in the recovery and...
Chubb eyes Hiscox.
Dean O'Hare, chief executive of Chubb, confirmed this week that the US insurer was still very intere...
Eurobase victim of industrial espionage.
Software supplier to the London market Eurobase believes it has been the victim of industrial espion...
As IBRC door closes, GISC opens for business.
After all the wrangling and in-fighting - some of which seems set to continue - the Treasury finally...
Connex crash.
Railway operators are again under scrutiny after a Connex train carrying staff overshot the platform...
ITS reports a loss.
Insurance Technology Solutions reported a loss of £1.1m for the year ending 30 June 2000, compared w...
The Hiscox Art Cafe.
The Hiscox Art Cafe is currently exhibiting portraits of inhabitants of Colombian shanty towns by Ca...
CIS enters group pension market.
Manchester-based Co-operative Insurance Society has entered the group pension market with a stakehol...
Cornell at the helm.
Clifford Chance partners have voted for joint European managing partner Peter Cornell to become thei...
Pearl in data deal.
Pearl Assurance has begun working on a multi-million-pound data migration contract with the data tra...
Sick travellers get the AllClear.
Bishopscourt Group Insurance Services has launched a new travel policy, AllClear Plus, aimed at holi...
Ace's high profits.
Ace has reported net income for the first quarter of 2001 of $118m (£81.3m) compared to $175m for th...
Homing in on costs.
Home improvement website improveline.com believes it can save the insurance industry over £100m a ye...
Compensation crisis for CIGA.
The state-run California Insurance Guarantee Association, which protects workers whose employers bou...
Go west.
Bristol has channelled its energies into attracting the major insurers to its environs, and the city is now experiencing a boom across the board. The insurance industry can only gain, says Edward Murray.
RSA to sell off Swinton chain
UK insurer Royal and Sun Alliance is to sell its Manchester-based broking subsidiary, Swinton (Holdin...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny enjoyed her stay at Belfast last week for BIBA and appreciated the tea-ladies sponsored by Ale...
Law in Lloyd's move.
Independent broker Camberford Law, which deals mainly in scheme business, plans to open a broking op...
Chaucer in claims battle.
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer is locked in a battle with four Australian reinsurers that are refusing to p...