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Fears mount over compensation shortfall
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers is seeking an urgent meeting with the liquidators at Ches...
ZFS up on back of IFA sales
Zurich Financial Services UK operation saw life assurance and investment new premiums grow by 25% la...
US insurers escape cat losses
US property/casualty insurers paid $4.3bn in catastrophe claims last year, making 2000 the second low...
PartnerRe issues profit warning
Bermudian reinsurer PartnerRe has announced that its earnings for the fourth quarter of last year wil...
Midland's four form alliance
Four Midlands insurance brokers have formed The Midland Broker Alliance in order to pool their resour...
Lloyd's acts on late payment
The Lloyd's Market Association has issued a statement on late payment of premiums. It has called on a...
Chubb makes play for Hiscox
US insurer Chubb has confirmed that it has made an offer to aquire Lloyd's underwriter Hiscox. Hi...
Aon set to make e-affinity move
Broker Aon and the electronic trading company (etc) are to develop a full cycle, online personal line...
IIB and BIBA in new spat
The Institute of Insurance Brokers is seeking legal advice over what it describes as untrue, purposel...
CGNU bancassurance failure
CGNU looks set to shelve its plans for an alliance with France's Societe Generale and is to review wh...
JLT merger results in new team
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has appointed a new senior management team for its new employee benefit...
Reliance goes into run-off
UK insurer Reliance National Insurance Company (Europe) has gone into voluntary run-off, the company ...
Lloyd's organisations opt for reform
Ross McKenzie, Aon Re International's chairman and director of Aon Ltd, has been appointed chairman o...
California power crisis could cost Ace $140m
Ace Financial Services has a total exposure of $140m for credit defaults by two energy utilities in t...
Go ahead for Mutual.
Old Mutual's joint venture with Kotak Mahindra Finance, OM Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance, has been g...
Misys calls time on Countrywide.
Technology giant Misys is looking to abandon its Countrywide brand and refocus Countrywide Insurance...
TPG makes a play for broking market.
Travel insurance intermediary Travel Protection Group is set to make a major play for the insurance ...
Appointment at Berrymans Lace Mawer.
Berrymans Lace Mawer has created six new partners. These include: Guy Bailey, who joined the Birming...
Safeonline staffs up broker network.
Internet insurance risks specialist Safeonline is looking to recruit a 200-strong broker network to ...
Tailored to suit.
Allianz Cornhill has launched Property Owners Select, which it claims will enable brokers to offer c...
Exam resits raise a legal question.
The Queen on the application of Ahmed v University of Oxford Administrative Court 7 November 2000. ...
Mobile menace.
Swiss aviation inspectors have said a mobile phone may have caused a Saab 340 to crash shortly after...
Kennedy: R&R move.
Broker services support provider Rarrigini & Rosso has appointed Philip Kennedy as managing director...
Screen-driven cover.
Crowe Insurance's motor Syndicate 963 has unveiled a new screen-driven private car policy for broker...