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Aon Group acquires 15th-ranked broker in France.
The Aon Group has continued to assert itself as a force in France with the acquisition of the 15th-r...
Is Liberty's fate the shape of things to come?
The demise of the aggressively marketed Liberty Re has sent a cold shiver through London's reinsuran...
Green Flag: travel operation to close as business levels fall.
Green Flag is to close is travel assistance operation following the loss of the Thomas Cook. The ...
Liberty aims to trash fears over contaminated land.
A new product from Liberty Legal Indemnities aims to protect policy holders against the dangers of b...
Broker's profits rocket.
American broker Morgan Stanley Dean Whitter has reported a bumper record income of £740m ($1.2bn) in...
New SORP is major advance for UK insurers.
Insurance companies are set to review their accounting practices to bring them into line with their ...
IBM award winner.
Singer & Friedlander Insurance Finance has won a global IBM Business Award for its Internet and extr...
Ace trumps Cigna for £2bn.
Giant Bermuda-based insurer Ace has bought Cigna Corp's international and domestic property and casu...
McClarens Toplis appointed.
Adjuster McClarens Toplis was quickly on track when two trains collided last Friday. The trains hit ...
You can't afford to miss it.
The programme for Post Magazine's agenda-setting strategic conference Insurance' 99 is now in place,...
Duncan Flack appears on Blind Date.
London market insurance broker Duncan Flack provided the Blind Date audience with a lorra laffs when...
Whose line is it anyway.
Aon Risk Services distribution policy means that its involvement in personal lines business is hidden by someone else's brand name. Shona Cronin reports.
AMP must be boardroom bully to remain in control.
Australian insurer AMP's hostile takeover of general insurance operation GIO has left it with just u...
Rise in pension action.
Litigation about pension schemes is on the increase according to law firm Dibb Lupton Alsop. That wa...
Insurers get in a lather over soap.
Insurance representatives have criticised Coronation Street scriptwriters for "scaremongering" over ...
Aon report calls for SIF mutual fund as market protection.
The solicitors Indemnity Fund has welcomed the news that some form of mutual fund should be retained...
Negotiating the troubled waters of marine risk.
I refer to your Comment 'Voyage of discovery needed in marine market' (PM, 3 Dec, p21), in which you...
Website focuses on legal settlements.
Accountancy firm Latham Crossley & Davis has set up what it believes is the first web site for struc...
Keep it simple advice.
Insurers have been warned if their products are to be sold successfully over the Internet they need ...
Crowded market blamed for Liberty Re shutdown.
The Liberty Mutual Group has scrapped its UK reinsurance subsidiary Liberty Re, despite spending £25...
HQ to be Worthing.
The integration of ITT London & Edinburgh and Norwich Union has stepped up a gear with the announcem...
Exclusive - Testing time for CMG.
IT Services company CMG has launched a testing device for insurers who need to develop systems which...
What the papers say.
DAILY STAR Travel insurers flew 12 randy Brits home last year because they had overdosed on Viagr...
Unethical accusation.
Mortgage providers which include compulsory insurance policies have been slammed as "unethical" by t...