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Screentrade slammed for cheapest cover guarantee.
Internet broker Screentrade has been branded a "one minute wonder" after it claimed to offer the che...
Fraudbusting.
Nathan Dony argues that when investigating corporate fraud it is necessary to understand whether you are looking for an opportunist or serial fraudster.
Aon conference.
Broker Aon is hosting its fifth Energy Insurance seminar in Aruba, South America, this week. Around ...
ERC's WAP site.
Reinsurer ERC Frankona is launching a WAP site. Anyone can access the site at wap.erct.net with no a...
Appointment at The Quest Partnership.
Steve Ashwell has been appointed as a Poole-based liability adjuster by The Quest Partnership to enh...
Master of profits.
Broker specialist Policy Master has announced excellent profits for 1999. Operating profit rose 48.5...
Appointment at General Insurance Standards Council.
The GISC has appointed Jim Beveridge as head of membership and Steven Barrow as head of monitoring. ...
Appointment at Ansvar Insurance.
Leigh Ide has been appointed regional manager for the south east by Ansvar Insurance. He joins Ansva...
Insurance chief calls for FSA to wake up to social exclusion.
The Financial Services Authority needs to bear in mind social exclusion issues when making regulatio...
Lloyd's admits Glass Test errors.
Lloyd's has apologised to Names for the debacle over last year's Glass Test on solvency requirements...
Promark/IBM deal.
John Senior of IBM (left) celebrates with Richard Muddiman of Promark Software as IBM announced it w...
Appointment at Ward Evans Group.
Ward Evans Group has made eight appointments and two promotions to its York office. The new appointm...
Dutch hand over Holocaust details.
The Dutch Association of Insurers is the first to release details of Holocaust era policyholders to ...
New Dutch broker.
A new international insurance/reinsurance broker and risk management specialist has been set up in R...
Disco inferno.
Loss adjusters from Property and Casualty Services were called to the scene of a devastating fire at...
Scor buys PartnerRe's US life business
French reinsurance group Scor is to buy the US life operations of PartnerRe for an undisclosed sum. ...
Solicitors turning deaf ear to insurance efforts
Insurers and brokers attempts to win over solicitors in the run up to this September - following chan...
RSA in Indian alliance
UK insurer Royal & SunAlliance (RSA) plans to enter into the Indian non-life insurance market through...
QBE to withdraw from Iron Trades provincial and sell-off motor
Australian insurer QBE, which acquired Iron Trades in December 1999, has announced a shakeup of the b...
Oak branches into high net worth
Gloucestershire-based Oak Underwriting has entered the high net worth market. Managing director of th...
Lloyd's plan unveiled
A plan to change the way international insurance and reinsurance is conducted and processed in London...
Maritime merged into CNA
Maritime Insurance, which was bought by CNA in 1998, is to be merged with CNA Insurance (Europe) to f...
Max Re completes second offering
The Bermuda-market's newest reinsurer, Max Re, has had its total capitalisation raised to $509m follo...
May day in landmark credit car hire hearing
An attempt to overturn the Appeal Court's Dimond v Lovell judgement on credit car hire has been put b...