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SVB rationalises syndicates
Lloyd's managing agency, SVB Syndicates is to rationalise its underwriting operations into three synd...
Blanch profits fall.
US reinsurance broker EW Blanch warned that its earning per share in 2001 would be "significantly be...
QPR supporter scoops football prize.
John Tuhey, assistant risk and insurance manager at London Borough of Hounslow, is this month's Avon...
Merging means missed chances.
The "urge to merge" is causing financial institutions to miss opportunities to create value, accordi...
Appointment at MMA Insurance.
Reading-based MMA Insurance has recruited Claire Hazlehurst as motor manager, underwriting. She has ...
GISC sparks red tape row.
If you think the broker will benefit by standing up, then you are living in GISC land. How can di...
JLT laughs off merger talk.
The largest remaining UK-owned broker, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, reaffirmed its commitment to independ...
Approval gained.
The High Court this week rubber-stamped the scheme of arrangement approved by the creditors of Chest...
Savings Alliance.
Mortgage specialist Alliance & Leicester intends to offer Legal & General long-term savings and inve...
Brokers are of value to motorists.
I was disappointed to read that the Consumer Association of Ireland has issued a scathing attack on ...
Appointment at Caplin.
New York-based Caplin, creator of the Real Time Text Protocol (RTTP), has taken on Ariel Jacobs as e...
Team site rates well.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has teamed up with CNA Insurance to launch a new internet...
Water risk a clear one.
Darby v National Trust Court of Appeal 29 January 2001 The claimant, her husband and childre...
Matthew Thomas Gough (by his mother & litigation friend Karen Gough)
Queens Bench Division 2 February 2001 The claimant, an eight-year-old schoolboy, fell from a ba...
Queensway sale on.
Canadian insurer Queensway Financial Holdings is to sell off two US subsidiaries - North Pointe Fina...
Pye secures AUA.
Charrington's, the service company for Lloyd's Syndicate Pye 962, is to underwrite Allied Underwriti...
Appointment at Groupama Insurances.
Groupama Insurances has expanded its North-West regional underwriting team with the addition of Ann ...
Adviser sent to prison for £145,000 fraud.
An East Midlands-based financial adviser has been sentenced to two years and nine months in jail aft...
Marsh to sell up.
Broker Marsh has confirmed it is likely to sell the Marsh Centre on Aldgate, after building began on...
London signs up to LMP2001 reforms.
A majority of organisations in the London market has now signed up to proposals for modernising proc...
Appointment at Sorema.
Alexis Ruset, chairman and chief executive officer of French reinsurer Sorema since 1997, has left t...
Right time for a change?
It might be a little early for spring cleaning but that has not stopped reinsurers having a good cle...
News in brief - The United Nations.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report last month that it ex...
Results in brief - Zurich Financial Services.
Zurich Financial Services said its earnings will drop slightly for 2000 due to a $300m reserve stren...