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Groupama's sale scuppers HNW plans.
Despite protestations from Groupama that it was "business as usual" when it put its UK business up f...
How safe?
As IT grows in complexity, ensuring adequate security is in place becomes more and more complicated. Just when a company thinks it has all the angles covered, it realises it has left the back door open. The answer is to accept no compromises, advises…
Win an all-expenses trip to the FA Cup.
Do you know how your salary, perks, working conditions and stress levels compare to those of others w...
FSA: independents threat.
The Financial Services Authority's proposals for ending the polarisation regime for life insurance s...
Short-changed.
Too many underwriters and insurance buyers are vague about which e-perils are covered by their insurance and which are not - and it could cost them dear, warn Timothy Goodger and Jill Hampton.
Hudson quits.
Isabel Hudson, chief financial officer of pan-European insurer Eureko, will leave the group as of 1 ...
Pass rates on the up.
Pass rates for insurance qualifications are rising, says the Chartered Insurance Institute. Results ...
Iron Trades rating reviewed.
Rating agency AM Best has removed Iron Trade's "under review" status, applied on 21 September 2001,...
Axa quits solicitors' indemnity.
Axa has become the latest insurer to withdraw from the beleaguered solicitors' indemnity market. ...
London market benchmark move.
London Market Principles, the body set up to modernise the workings of the market, is to introduce a...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
Ecclesiastical Insurance has recruited Colin Robertson as assistant chief surveyor....
Appointment at GE ERC.
Reinsurer GE ERC has taken on four senior staff within its global life and health operations. Tony O...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny was disturbed to hear rumblings of complaint from insurer Axa this week. Having overheard that...
All change at Am Re.
With effect from 31 March, Ed Noonan will relinquish his position as president and chief executive o...
AF drops stock market plans.
South African broker Alexander Forbes has sidelined plans for a listing switch to the London stock m...
Appointment at Brownsword Associates.
Brownsword, the national motor claims investigation company, has appointed four new claims technicia...
Appointment at Room Solutions.
Room Solutions has appointed Huw Evans as international finance director, Peter Wemyss as sales dire...
Marlborough in Sun Life deal.
Software and services provider Marlborough Stirling has secured contracts with Sun Life Financial of...
No armageddon.
Predictions of armageddon for the insurers and reinsurers post-11 September have proved unfounded, s...
Coming clean.
Despite initiatives such as the Motor Insurers' Database, many insurers believe a better way of cleaning up the sector's poor image, due in part to the soaring motor premiums necessitated by the rising numbers of uninsured drivers, is by transparency and…
Appointment at Lane Clark & Peacock.
Consulting actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock has made five new partners. These are Tracey Scott, Aaron ...
Beware spin says GISC chief.
Chris Woodburn, chief executive of the General Insurance Standards Council, has hit out at misinform...
Film flop battle set to drag on.
The current round of film financing litigation, which could cost insurers hundreds of millions of po...
UNCC pays up for Kuwait plane costs.
War risks insurers have recovered £12.1m from the United Nations Compensation Commission for the los...