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Appointment at Assurant Solutions
Ian Moffatt has joined provider of specialty property and consumer protection products Assurant Solu...
LCL Consulting sets up new project consultancy division
LCL Consulting has set up a new project consultancy division to provide London market professionals ...
Claims firm assets bought
The assets of claims management company Accident Advice Helpline have been bought from the firm's ad...
Highway to acquire three in network plan
Highway Retail, a new division of motor insurer Highway, has revealed it is close to acquiring three...
The Lloyd's Market Association appoints Bill Rendall
The Lloyd's Market Association has appointed Bill Rendall as its new head of underwriting and claims...
NHS not up to the job, says IPRS
The National Health Service cannot be relied on to carry out rehabilitation programmes, and the gove...
Compensation culture to blame
A director of a specialist rehabilitation centre believes the compensation culture is to blame for f...
Fortis sees SME business leap over 50%
Fortis' UK Insurance operation has said it is keen to compete in wider areas of the market, followin...
ABI tells insurers: make rehab work
A recent Post Magazine rehabilitation Management Briefing saw the topic described as a "merry-go-round issue". The PM team reports
Standards debate
Paul Andrews, Medicals Direct sales and marketing director, far right, led a workshop on the need to...
Appointment at Helphire
Total Accident Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Helphire Group, has appointed David Joyce as...
Appointment at David Fangen
The board of David Fangen, which encompasses David Fangen Holdings and W Burch and Son, has appointe...
Allianz Cornhill results confirm softening market
Allianz Cornhill has said it is on target to achieve 4% premium growth in 2004 - considerably down o...
Cox Insurance teams up with The Broker Network
Cox Insurance has teamed up with The Broker Network to offer personal lines administration facilitie...
AIG tops list of big 10 commercial firms
AIG has come out on top in a report ranking the largest 10 commercial insurers in the UK. Using dat...
Appointment at Benfield
Benfield has made Klaus Riechmann joint managing director of its Munich office. Mr Riechmann has mor...
Trade bodies pre-empt FSA with new guidelines
Insurance and broking trade associations have clubbed together to pre-empt Financial Services Author...
Appointment at Claims Standards Federation
The Claims Standards Federation has made Dr Tony Burns-Howell chief executive. He will head up a sma...
Pension fund buys 14.9% stake in broker
Hermes Pensions Management Limited has acquired a total of 14.9% stake in the AIM-listed Community Broking Group.
S&P claims 2005 market will test reinsurers
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has claimed that the resolve of the reinsurance community will be further tested in 2005, as management seeks to balance the demands of clients, brokers, and shareholders to maintain current underwriting volumes with the potential…
Toa Re management changes
Toa Reinsurance (Toa Re), based in Tokyo, Japan, has announced that Teruhiko Ohtani will be appointed president and chief executive at the general shareholders meeting, to be held on 29 June 2004.
Montpelier Re announces share repurchase
Montpelier Re has announced that the company's board of directors has approved the repurchase of up to $150m of its common shares.
Surveyors warned over FSA Regulation
Surveyors providing and advising on insurance cannot risk waiting for a Government u-turn on regulation by the Financial Services Authority, according to commercial law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.
RFIB founder makes way for Willis Marine boss
Lloyd’s broker RFIB Group has appointed Stephen Hirst as director of RFIB Marine.