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ECS revises pollution insurance programme
ECS Underwriting, a subsidiary of XL Capital, has redesigned its pollution insurance programme for pe...
Ace loss expenses treble
Ace's losses and loss expenses jumped to $1.6bn for fiscal 1999 - more than three times the figure fo...
Salvage industry on road to recovery
Insurers and motor salvage companies are cooperating - despite differences between their trade bodies...
St Paul rejects price hike claims
St Paul has denied broker Aon's claims it is set to exploit the solicitors' professional indemnity ma...
Abbey to shake up market
Abbey Legal Protection is to shake up the employment dispute insurance market by cutting premiums on ...
Solicitors Shed Six
The Solicitors Indemnity Fund has told six law firms on its panel to stop accepting new referrals. ...
General Re reviews options for financial products unit
General Re is "exploring strategic alternatives for General Re Financial Products", the US reinsurer ...
Alliance & Leicester and Lloyds TSB get Internet bug
Alliance and Leicester plans to launch a stand-alone Internet operation it said today as it recorded ...
Swann takes over underwriting at Zurich
David Swann has been appointed underwriting manager at Zurich Personal Insurances and will take overa...
Virgin Direct
Virgin Direct is to launch a website which claims to be the first to offer customers the ability to m...
One-stop shop helps Third World exporters.
The formation of "one-stop-shop" access to export credit packages has been agreed between the Nether...
Names go down with 103.
Lloyd's woes intensified this week following syndicate 103's failed arbitration against North Americ...
On the right road.
The initiative to improve the UK's record in rehabilitation is a step in the right direction, says Jonathan Swift.
Merger targets named.
United Assurance and Royal & Sun Alliance have been branded as insurance stocks "most likely to bene...
Appointment at Cartwrights Solicitors.
Bristol-based law firm Cartwrights has opened a new office in Cardiff. Located in the the Cardiff Ga...
Sklaroff succeeds.
Dr Stephen Sklaroff will succeed Tony Baker as deputy director general of the Association of British...
Hill to The Rock.
Warren Hill has exported its small business insurance scheme provided by CGU to Gibraltar. Mick Derb...
Charlie's helpers.
AA Insurance claims its commercial brokers are benefiting from the popularity of Charlie Dimmock. It...
Nat West move.
Nat West Insurance Services is to be brought under the bank's Retail Banking Division in an attempt ...
China orders business split.
The China Insurance Regulatory Commission has ordered the Pacific Insurance Co, the Ping'an Insuranc...
Pru mum on £4bn.
Prudential is attempting to sell off £11bn of its UK institutional funds. A spokeswoman confirmed...
Europe banks on mergers.
Europe has been bitten badly by the bancassurance bug with companies rushing to position themselves ...
Appointment at RE Brown Underwriting.
RE Brown Underwriting has opened branches in the Home Counties and Leeds. The Home Counties offic...
ERC gets A.
Munich-based reinsurer ERC Frankona has been assigned an A (Superior) rating by the AM Best agency. ...