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Cross-border launch.
Sovereign Risk Insurance, the Bermuda-based political risk insurance joint venture involving Ace and...
Ratings review.
Martin Hindley from ratings agency Standards & Poors details changes to company ratings. French r...
RSA signs non-life deal.
Global insurer Royal & Sun Alliance and Sundaram Finance of India last week agreed to form a non-lif...
Appointment at QBE International Insurance.
David Eynon, Jill Stewart and Chris Fletton have joined QBE's speciality team. QBE is also setting u...
EC nod for CGNU.
The European Commission has given clearance for the proposed merger between giant UK insurance compa...
Appointment at Indigo Selection.
Royston Betts has joined the insurance team at recruitment consultancy Indigo Selection. He will be ...
Success for insur-E.
Insurance quotation engine and policy processing system insur-E.connect, which provides intermediari...
Brains not brawn pledge.
The General Insurance Standards Council's chief executive Chris Woodburn denied it would act as a "m...
Shergar' skull revives debate over reserves.
The issue of large insurance reserves resurfaced last week when the discovery of a horse's skull tri...
We're barely at e-comm first base'.
Today's London insurance market has "completely unacceptable service standards," with both documenta...
WISe and IVANS celebrate union.
The global e-commerce insurance network has received a significant boost in the form of a strategic ...
Scot Life keeps mum.
Both Scottish Life and Britannic Assurance have refused to comment on speculation linking the two co...
Touchline defends covert surveillance.
Motor insurer Touchline has backed the use of surveillance to investigate claims ahead of a law chan...
Free access to Internet trading.
BIBA is to launch a new Internet package next month called Businessfree.net. A disc will be sent ...
Plant Construction v Clive Adams Associates and JMH Construction
31 March 2000 During construction of a building, the roof was to be held up by temporary props. T...
Appointment at Tryg-Baltica International.
Bob Marsh has been appointed bloodstock underwriter at Tryg-Baltica International. Previously he ...
Sports boom.
Brokers can cash in on the amateur sports boom through a new personal accident policy from Marcus He...
Medicine man.
Alex Broad meets medical negligence expert John Holmes, who has seen some major changes in the market since he qualified and expects to see many more.
Race for the prize.
Away from the bright lights of Hollywood, the contingency market continues to expand with new players and innovative solutions. Jonathan Swift reports.
Broken warranties: not just a question of duty but of honesty.
As an immediate past president of the Institute of Public Loss Assessors, I am very surprised by the...
Better to be safe.
Manufacturers and their insurers must make sure they are up to speed with fresh EC directives on product liability to avoid a legal minefield. David Fanning reports.
Web monitoring.
The Mortgage Code Compliance Board is to look at compliance and monitoring standards with regard to ...
Mergers costing brokers £100m.
Insurance mergers look set to cost brokers an estimated £100m claimed Mr Bolam, who said brokers wer...
PXRe appoints executives
US reinsurer PXRe has appointed six new executives to its property/casualty reinsurance unit. James...