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Making a PASS at IFAs.
The Pension Advisers Support Systems has devised a new loss assessment service to help smaller IFAs ...
Appointment at GAB Robins.
Five new staff have joined GAB Robins' commercial division in Birmingham. Andrew Brockie has been ma...
Award for Meehan.
Patrick Meehan of Willis Corroon Cargo in Ipswich won a 'Chartered Marketer' certificate at the 'Mar...
Appointment at Appleton & Green.
Appleton & Green has appointed Philip Slater as a director. Mr Slater joined the company in 1991 and...
Appointment at Rand Information Systems.
Rand has appointed Duncan Hamilton as business development manager. He joins the firm from ICL's cen...
Food for thought.
Lloyd's syndicate Beazley Furlonge has launched a protection plan for restaurant owners. In response...
Legal eagles are flying high.
The top law firms for reinsurance and insurance litigation are revealed in this exclusive extract from The Legal 500.
ERC closes in Aachen.
Employers Re subsidiary ERC Aachen is to close at the end of this year following the decision of the...
INFO for brokers.
Brokers in the Lloyd's market can now get free access to 'INFO', the Lloyd's extranet information se...
LPC takes control.
The London Processing Centre (LPC) is conducting trials of a new credit control service that will al...
Wall Street meets Front Street.
Adrian Leonard looks at Bermuda's growing role in securitisation, and asks if new firms can change the world of reinsurance.
Airing your genes in public.
Peter Maynard of Swiss Re reveals the general public's view of the genetics and insurance debate.
Pro Patria Scor.
Mexican reinsurer Patria Internacional has bought a controlling interest in the small Venezuelan rei...
Appointment at PWC.
Jeremy Scott has been appointed head of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Insurance Industry Services G...
To protect and to serve.
If there was one good thing to take away from last month's Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous it was the impres...
In the eye of the Asian storm.
The financial outlook for the Philippines is promising, but the new president still faces tough challenges. Jeremy Golden reports.
Appointment at Hiscox.
Bruno Ritchie is joining Hiscox as senior aerospace and engineering underwriter. He joins from AGF G...
New world order for the top 4 brokers.
The world's third and fourth largest brokers are both getting used to new owners following J&H Marsh...
Mapfre profits up.
Spanish insurance group Mapfre increased profits by 23% to Ptas 12.9bn ($90m) in the first half of t...
Sorema sets up in London.
French reinsurer Sorema, part of the Groupama-Gan group, is to open a London branch office. Alexi...
BT sells out to Rhine Re.
Bankers Trust is to sell its insurance units to Rhine Re, the Switzerland and Bermuda-based reinsure...
College of Insurance.
Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, chairman of American International Group, has been named 1998 Insurance Le...
Bonnie losses.
Preliminary estimates from the Property Claim Services unit of the Insurance Services Office put dam...
News of Eagle Star Re's future imminent.
Speculation surrounding London market reinsurer Eagle Star Re looked set to be silenced with an anno...