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AIG to IPO Asian life unit - reports
AIG plans to spin off its Asian life insurance unit in a $5-10bn Hong Kong initial public offering in the first quarter of next year, according to reports.
Biba News 2009: DAS outlines ambitions for "market leading" offer
DAS Legal Expenses Insurance is to unevil its new motor solution to brokers at BIBA, which it has high ambitions of becoming a market leading offer.
Biba News 2009: Provident in new motor add ons push
Provident Insurance has added to its range of add-on motor policies with the launch of a product to financially assist motorists against the effects of the depreciating value of their vehicles in the event of a total loss.
MPs call for FSA regulation of personal injury claims
Five MPs have tabled an early day motion calling for the Financial Services Authority to step in and regulate the way in which personal injury claims are handled.
Biba News 2009: LV releases new broker portal
LV has today announces the launch of its new commercial package trading website. The portal 'LV Broker Gateway' will be available to all brokers with an LV agency.
Biba 2009 News: Marketform unveils new lines of business
Marketform Group, a specilaist non-US medical malpractice and other specialty lines, has announced that it is now underwriting a number of new classes of business.
Biba 2009 News: HNW and MNW specialists unite for product push
Sister personal lines insurance specialists Oak Underwriting and Plum Underwriting have joined forces to offer brokers a full spectrum of cover for all mid to high net worth policyholders.
Chaucer tightlipped on offer as it records 42.3% hike in GWP
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer this morning reported that total gross written premium income to the end of March 2009 was ahead of budget at £257.8m (2008 Q1 £181.2m), an increase of 42.3% It added underlying growth in premium income excluding Syndicate 4242…
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Hiscox up 51%
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What the papers said this week
Newcastle Chronicle An insurance company has apologised for threatening to take a schoolboy to ...
Victory for "common sense" in Hungerford Bridge death case
The employers of a welder killed while working on a major construction project on the Hungerford Bri...
CTC buys Axiom
Charles Taylor Consulting has acquired Axiom Holdings, an independent insurance and reinsurance supp...
Biba trade credit meet
The Department for Business Executive and Regulatory Reform has agreed in principle it has the right...
Insurers unwittingly helping disease claims
Insurers are inadvertently helping to build opponents' industrial disease cases by investigating cla...
QBE wins mercedes deal
QBE has secured a deal with Mercedes in China. The insurer's UK-based payment protection unit won th...
DAS in City move
DAS Legal Expenses Insurance has expanded and relocated its London office to accommodate a dedicated...
New Arc Legal product
Legal expenses insurance provider Arc Legal Assistance has developed a non-fault motor legal expense...
CII taskforce meets
The Chartered Insurance Institute's new taskforce of senior general insurance practitioners has met ...
Appointment at Colemont
Colemont Insurance Brokers has made Keith Reardon a director of its marine and energy division. Mr...
Appointment at Axis
Axis International Loss Adjusters has appointed Nicholas La Stella as a loss adjuster in its finan...