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RSA enters brokered pet market
Swinton is set to make a push into the pet insurance market with plans to achieve £3m in gross writt...
QBE rating rise on cards
Moody's Investors Service has placed the 'A-' (Good), positive outlook, performance rating of QBE-ow...
Penny Black's insurance week
With Penny's bank account now exhausted from all the charitable donations she made to insurance peop...
Green insurance campaign
Royal and Sun Alliance joined Tony Blair in launching 'We're in this Together', a campaign aimed at ...
Europ joins with Allianz
Europ Assistance has been appointed by Allianz Cornhill Schemes to provide claims handling and admin...
Kilpatrick joins Dual board
Dual International has announced the appointment of Russell Kilpatrick to its board. Mr Kilpatrick i...
What the papers said this week
Shropshire Star Organisers of a Bridgnorth garden event have revealed they may be forced to pull th...
PWS case in the balance
The fate of four executives at Lloyd's broker PWS, arrested on suspicion of fraud, remained in the b...
Aviva smooths Snowball exit
Aviva has played down reports of a "boardroom bust-up" by revealing that it agreed to a short period...
Aspen appoints new head
Aspen Insurance Holdings has announced the appointment of Matthew Yeldham as head of international i...
QBE boosts syndicate 555
QBE has announced two appointments at aviation syndicate 5555, with Tony Ambrose joining as underwri...
Awards for brokers
Insure Cancer, a specialist provider of travel insurance to individuals with a diagnosis of cancer, ...
Highway motorcycle bid
Highway has developed its Choice Motorcycle product in conjunction with software supplier Open GI, i...
WPA issues NHS cancer challenge with launch
Health insurer WPA has issued a challenge to the government to rethink the way cancer treatment is p...
RSA restructures affinity team
Royal and Sun Alliance has announced the formation of a new Affinity executive team.
This is the week that was
Anthony Gould, editor in chief, Post Magazine runs through this week’s major general insurance news including: Aviva smooths Snowball exit to Towergate as Mayer moves in; ATE threatened by reform proposals; Meehan talks about his new role at Axa; Blue…
Aviva appoints new European group executive director
Aviva has appointed Tidjane Thiam to group executive director, Aviva Europe with effect from 1 May 2007.
Prudential poaches Lloyd's director
Lloyd's direcor of market infrastructure and programme management will leave the franchise this July.
Chubb recruits new personal lines boss
Chubb Europe has announced the appointment of Paul Chapman to the new position of head of personal insurance. He will have responsibility for Chubb’s personal lines and accident and health businesses across Europe.
FSA seeks improvement in cold calling standards
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said firms must improve the standards of cold calling when selling general insurance over the telephone to ensure they are treating their customers fairly.
FSA tells firms to improve general insurance sales standards when cold calling
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today said firms must improve the standards of cold calling when selling general insurance over the telephone to ensure they are treating their customers fairly.
Stadium of Light suffers "severe" blaze
A stand at Sunderland's football ground has been damaged in a severe fire.
FSA warns firms on cold calling
The Financial Services Authority today said firms must improve the standards of cold calling when selling general insurance over the telephone to ensure they are treating their customers fairly.
Post launches affinity focus
Post has launched a new series of focused, half-day seminars to complement its existing portfolio of events - the first of which will focus on the affinity market.To see the agenda go to: http://www.postevents.co.uk/affinity