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What the papers said this week
Daily Mail Car crime costs the insurance industry £569m a year and insurers have started helping fi...
Appointment at Focus Insurance Recruitment
Mandy Cox has joined specialist insurance and financial services recruitment agency Focus Insurance ...
Appointment at EMB
Tom Hettinger and Dave Otto will head up the US office of EMB. Mr Hettinger was previously chief act...
Appointment at FMW
Duncan Cramphorn has been appointed account executive for the north of England by Chelmsford-based b...
Risk managers would leave UK if regulated
One firm in seven would consider moving their risk management function overseas if it were statutori...
Appointment at Financial Services Skills Council
Teresa Sayers has become chief executive of the Financial Services Skills Council. She has been work...
Invaro has not 'collapsed'
The firm set to be appointed as liquidator for personal injury specialist Invaro has insisted the co...
Appointment at British Virgin Islands Insurance Association
Conor Jennings has been appointed president of the British Virgin Islands Insurance Association, the...
Common market
Journalists from across Europe gathered in London last week to celebrate the Presse Internationale d...
Roger Miller has died suddenly
Roger Miller, executive director of the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Insurance and ...
S&P: silica may be a new asbestos
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has said it is "keeping a close eye on developments" in silica expo...
Heath Lambert promotes Adrian Colosso
Heath Lambert has promoted UK managing director Adrian Colosso to the board, a little over six month...
Appointment at InsurE-com
InsurE-com has employed Chris Mosely as business development manager. Mr Mosely has spent 24 years w...
Appointment at DLA
DLA has expanded its insurance group's disease unit with the appointment of solicitor Simon Matthews...
Wellington's Axa buy targets $40m premium
Wellington Underwriting has said it is confident its proposed acquisition of US-based Axa Corporate ...
Guy Carpenter develops flood-risk tool
Broker Guy Carpenter and software provider Eqecat are jointly developing a flood risk exposure tool ...
XL Europe to offer liability insurance cover
XL Europe's professional lines division is to offer primary directors' and officers' liability insur...
Appointment at KPMG
Ammy Seth has joined KPMG's financial services practice to lead the company's enterprise-wide risk m...
ATE funder looks to expand under Pittman
Red Sands, the Gibraltar-based after-the-event insurer set up late last year by Capricorn Associates...
ABI considers UK asbestos database
The Association of British Insurers is considering developing a central claims database of asbestos-...
Zurich pilots EL scheme
Zurich is piloting a scheme developed by the Association of British Insurers and the Association of ...
Goshawk plans US presence
Goshawk Insurance Holdings is planning to develop its portfolio in the US as part of the company's s...
Outsourcing: Axa eyes China and Morocco
The chairman of Axa Group this week defended the insurer's Indian outsourcing programme and revealed...
Ace plans to expand into Eastern Europe
Insurer Ace Europe plans to expand into Eastern Europe, with selected 'accession states' and the Rus...