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Appointment at Lloyd's.
The new head of market risk at Lloyd's is to be Henry Johnson. He joins after two years at Swiss Re,...
HMO talks to combat fraud.
US health insurers Humana, Cigna, United Health and Pru of America are expected to follow Aetna's le...
AGF scoops WAIG.
The AGF Group has acquired the remaining 51% shareholding of London-based Westminster Aviation Insur...
Hiscox hosts exhibition.
Hiscox is to host an exhibition, Life-Size, by Richard Elliott in its art cafe between 29 January an...
AIIB to host rules debates.
The Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers has thrown down the gauntlet to members of t...
Fraud uncovered.
An insurer's refusal to pay excessively high credit hire charges has exposed a £7000 fraud in a case...
Plain ridiculous.
Insurers have poured cold water on government plans to impose heavy restrictions on the building of ...
Appointment at Walmsleys.
Walmsleys Insurance Brokers has appointed Philip Gee, Jane Denham, Lesley Lindley, Martin Bellamy an...
Appointment at Equitable Life.
Charles Thomson has assumed the role of general manager - finance and appointed actuary at Equitable...
APIL to meet with liquidators.
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers is due to meet with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the provisio...
GISC costs a cause for concern.
Saga, one of the UK's largest personal lines brokers, is in talks with the General Insurance Standar...
Halifax travels alone.
Halifax Travel Insurance has beaten off competition from four other insurers to become the sole trav...
3 Arrows reorganises sales structure.
Non-fault accident assistance specialist 3 Arrows has reorganised its sales structure. The change wi...
Claims Direct stands firm.
No win, no fee claims management company Claims Direct is keen to work with insurers, but will not b...
RAC to target road safety.
The RAC is to target road safety among fleet drivers, after it found more than a third of drivers, w...
Reliance to self-administer run-off.
Reliance National Insurance, the UK arm of floundering US provider, Reliance Group Holdings, will se...
Recoverability dispute calls for Direct action.
There are always two sides to every story. The war of words between insurers and defendant solicitor...
Appointment at GAB Robins.
George Bentley has moved to GAB Robins as a national account director. He was most recently director...
Claims Direct expenses unclear.
I read with considerable interest Colin Poole's invitation to the legal and insurance professions to...
WISe signs up Claims On Line.
WISe, the standards and implementation body for commercial insurance e-business, has signed up claim...
Portuguese rises.
The volume of Portuguese insurers' accumulated direct premiums rose 5% year-on-year to 1.317bn escud...
NU Rover ban may be lifted.
Norwich Union is set to meet the management at car manufacturer MG Rover over its policy of refusing...
What the Papers Say.
The Daily Telegraph Fidelity, the £17bn fund manager, sent statements to thousands of investors t...
To the manor born?
High net worth clients have not all made their millions in the same way, but the lords of the manor and the nouveaux riches all want the same sort of protection from HNW insurers - don't they? Jane Bernstein finds out.