News
Bad publicity hits CD.
Personal injury claims specialist Claims Direct conceded this week that the departure of its marketi...
QBE denies London move.
Australian insurer QBE has restructured the group, following the acquisition of Lloyd's insurer Limi...
Unions set to march on ABI.
Trade unions and specialist interest groups are planning to increase the pressure on the government ...
BIBA giveaway.
Win an Evesham family computer system at the British Insurance Brokers' Association annual conferenc...
Willis' US flotation raises eyebrows.
Investment vehicle KKR's decision to float Willis in the US has intensified City speculation that t...
ZFS refloats policy.
Zurich Financial Services marine subsidiary Navigators and General is hoping to strengthen its posit...
AHJ: new division.
Lloyd's broker Alwen Hough Johnson has formed a new operating division AHJ Special Lines. David Doe ...
RSA to switch commercial lines channel
Royal & Sun Alliance is to transfer existing business in commercial EDI policy classes to Enterprise,...
Eureko profits up.
Pan-European insurer Eureko, of which Friends Provident is a stakeholder, has announced end-of-year ...
Tough time for loss adjusters.
David Campbell, a partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, said he understood that loss adjusters were ha...
ILMS: Cigna run-off.
Independent London Market Services is to administer the run-off of Cigna Corporation's London-based ...
Civil service risk.
Opportunities for risk managers to advise the civil service came to light this week with the publica...
Appointment at Browne Jacobson.
Insurance law firm Browne Jacobson has promoted Adrian Shardlow and Chris Webb-Jenkins to partners. ...
Call for tougher penalties for breaching code.
Mike Burnett, chairman of charter and etiquette, said CILA needed to get tough over members not foll...
Mergers are of limited value.
The article Insurers banking on stakeholder (Post Magazine, 29 March, p56) was very timely in that i...
Appointment at Opus.
Emma Douglas has been promoted to marketing manager of Opus Holdings. For the last three years, she ...
Acenza launched.
Californian-based technology company FileNET this week launched Acenza Claims for policy and casualt...
Fraud-buster.
Motor insurers are to be aided in the battle against fraud with the launch of a new database of vehi...
Bupa set to widen UK profile.
Private health insurer Bupa is looking to widen its UK business profile after announcing the operati...
Leeding light.
Leeds has become one of the most vibrant cities in the UK - overtaking many of its northern rivals. Many companies in the insurance sector have seen the light and, keen to benefit from the region's facilities, now form a sizable community. Jonathan Swift…
JLT: npower services.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has formed a business partnership with utility company npower to devel...
Appointment at Euclidian.
Euclidian Insurance Services has made two new appointments to its board of directors. Jim West from ...
Top three for health.
Royal & Sun Alliance, Standard Life Healthcare and XS Health have come out as the top three internet...
Appointment at Marsh.
Bridgit Juniper has been taken on by Marsh as director, European communications. Ms Juniper has 14 y...