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Aon forms joint venture.
Broker Aon has formed a joint venture with Protection & Indemnity broker PL Ferrari, the world's old...
Signed and sealed.
Baldev Singh Mann v Chetty & Patel; Court of Appeal 26 October 2000.
PPP to retain own branding.
Axa subsidiary, PPP Healthcare, will continue to be branded differently from the other Axa UK group ...
Prudential up but storms to cost £30m
Insurer Prudential has recorded a 4% rise in gross written premiums to £251m for the first nine month...
Appointment at Peoples Choice.
Peoples Choice has promoted Pam Mellor to customer services manager. She has worked for the telebrok...
Storms cost dearly.
Independent Insurance has estimated the October floods and storms will cost it up to £12.5m, as it r...
Motor underwriters driving down profits.
Motor business underwriters are driving their companies into deep trouble according to figures relea...
DB stake reduced.
Germany's Dresdner Bank has reduced its stake in the reinsurer Munich Re from 7.4% to 5%....
Reliance future hangs in balance.
A cloud remains over the future of Reliance National Insurance, the UK arm of troubled US insurer Re...
Elenay Contracts v The Vestry; Technology and Construction Court 30
The Vestry opposed Elenay's summary judgement application to enforce an adjudicator's award. The ...
Rival to GISC to go ahead.
The Institute of Insurance Brokers is to push ahead with plans to set up a rival regulatory body to ...
Allianz hits out over rates.
German insurer Allianz has said it could cut up to a fifth of its global risk business, unless its c...
Clerical goes live.
Clerical Medical has gone live on m-link, the e-trading platform for independent financial advisers....
Fortis profits on the rise
Benelux-based insurer Fortis, which merged and rebranded Northern Star and Bishopsgate in the UK last...
How e-wise are you?
E-commerce is increasing insurers' workloads rather than reducing them, says Phil Race in an analysis of the results of a survey of delegates at Post Magazine's recent e-commerce to e-profit conference in London.
Axa pumps up cover.
French insurer Axa has signed a deal with Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch/Shell to sell car insu...
Penny Black's insurance week.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the St Paul must be feeling very chuffed indeed...
Playing the game to win.
I would like to add my comments to those of the two previous anonymous contributors remarking on how...
Killing' law delay criticised.
The government's decision to delay the introduction of a new 'corporate killing' law has been critic...
Fortis merger on.
Dutch-Belgian financial group Fortis' planned EUR4.1bn (£2.2bn) takeover of Dutch insurer ASR Verzek...
FarmWeb checks cover.
Insurance specialist FarmWeb has warned farmers to check that their stocks of straw, potatoes and ot...
L&G: Prosser stays.
Legal & General group chief executive David Prosser has agreed to remain in his role until 2006, two...
... director general of the ABI.
Jane Bernstein met Mary Francis, director general of the Association of British Insurers, and discovered that in this period of shifting attitudes, there is nothing predictable about promoting the industry.
Sun warms market.
Sun Life Financial of Canada has selected technology provider CMG's point-of-sale equipment PAS to h...