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Appointment at Heath Lambert
Heath Lambert has appointed Donald Morgan as managing director of its Leeds branch. Mr Morgan joins ...
Wellington Underwriting anticipates profits
Wellington Underwriting has anticipated £66m profits from the first half of 2005, of which pre-tax p...
SVB shares fall
Lloyd's insurer SVB's shares fell by as much a 7% on Tuesday, off the back of its latest trading upd...
What the papers said this week
The Times Cancer and stroke sufferers who have taken out critical illness insurance could be denied...
Appointment at Tokio Marine
Tokio Marine Europe Insurance has made Chris Kraushaar senior non-marine underwriter. He is responsi...
Allianz personal lines records a drop
Allianz Cornhill has echoed its competitors' sentiments, by insisting that motor rates must rise, af...
Aascent reorganises its accounts
Premium finance provider Aascent has reorganised its accounts in a bid to meet brokers' demand for a...
Beazley predicts good results
Lloyd's insurer Beazley has predicted its half-year results will be "materially ahead" of expectatio...
Regulator signs deal with police
The regulator has signed a deal with the police to co-operate on the arrest and questioning of suspe...
Zurich to merge more functions
Zurich did not rule out future job cuts after it took its latest step to combine its commercial and ...
Claims firms in ad clampdown
The government has stepped up its campaign against claims management companies and solicitors by try...
Appointment at Alan Blunden
Alan Blunden has made Richard Burgess director. He joins the board after four years at HSBC Insuranc...
Industry at risk after £140m Vioxx ruling
Insurers' sky-high prices for pharmaceutical cover are putting the future of the drugs industry at r...
NIG urges others on Imarket
NIG has urged other insurers to sign up to Imarket after the Royal-Bank-of-Scotland-owned company jo...
Hiscox buys Ascot's fine art business
Lloyd's insurer Ascot has sold most of its £4.45m fine art business to rival Hiscox, a little over a...
Direct Line sees red over spoof website clip
Broker-only motor insurer Markerstudy has withdrawn a spoof animation from its website, after a comp...
EU inquiry kicks off with questionnaire
UK insurers and brokers are bracing themselves for more bureaucracy, with the news they will soon re...
Penny Black's insurance week
It seems that excessive afternoon summer drinking sessions in the city have gone to some people's he...
QBE boss hails performance as being "well above" target
QBE Europe improved its insurance profit-to-net earned premium ratio in the first half of 2005, as t...
Passive smoking litigation will not affect EL or PL
Insurers will be able to withstand a raft of passive smoking litigation cases, it was claimed this w...
Zurich plans brand cull
Zurich has blamed intense competition in the UK for a fall in its gross written premium in the first...
FSA to visit insurance intermediaries
Insurance intermediaries must get ready for Arrow visits, part of an aggressive plan of visits from ...
Survey: 3% are "classic targets"
Nearly 3% of the UK's top 2000 insurance brokers have been identified as "classic acquisition target...
2005 event year is "almost certain"
Loss adjusters may fail to cope with subsidence claims if, as initial signs suggest, 2005 becomes a...