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WTC: cash call means rebuilding plans out.
Reinsurance giant Swiss Re has said the claim by Larry Silverstein, leaseholder of the World Trade Ce...
Albany in Kwik deal.
Kwik-Fit Insurance Services has reached agreement with Albany ULR to provide its customers with a mo...
ING and Zurich agree Canadian alliance
Dutch financial services group ING is to acquire Zurich's Canadian personal and group property & casu...
Appointment at Chaffe Street.
New associate Ruth Jones of Manchester-based law firm Chaffe Street is to take the lead in advising ...
Legal & General extending alliance.
Legal & General is extending its strategic alliance with Barclays Bank by offering its range of fina...
Greystoke joins the ranks of CFA providers.
Having gone very quiet since its tie-up with DAS, we now learn (PM, 15 November), that Greystoke Leg...
HL online solution.
Broker Heath Lambert is offering clients the opportunity to sell insurance products over an online g...
Claims Direct switches underwriter in overhaul.
Personal injury intermediary Claims Direct has switched its underwriter as part of a radical overhau...
Getting to grips with long-tail liabilities.
Don't miss out. Book today for next week's Post Magazine Technical Masterclass on the problems of re...
Smart & Cook gets back to takeovers.
Broker Smart and Cook is looking to climb back into the acquisitional saddle, according to group man...
Golden Eagle sues.
Liberty Mutual subsidiary Golden Eagle Insurance Corporation is suing the California Insurance Depar...
Networking in Oz.
OpenNetwork Technologies, the UK-based developer of web single sign-on and access control security s...
Independent club broker confusion.
Confusion as to the status of brokers arguing over the return of commission on cancelled Independent...
Appointment at Ansvar.
Colin Toppin has become the new underwriting manager at Ansvar. He joins the specialist insurer for ...
Breach therapy?
Security breaches are costing unwary companies billions of pounds, but are traditional methods of protection enough - particularly with rapidly evolving net technology and the fact that many transgressions come from within - asks Graham Ashley.
Joint accounts.
Popular in the US, account aggregation is now drawing a lot of attention from UK financial service providers keen to benefit from all the advantages of a captive audience. But, asks Mark Loosmore, what about the legal aspects?
UIA: court benefits.
Mutual affinity insurer UIA Insurance has been appointed by AMO, the trade union for magistrates' co...
Age concern.
Since its introduction, stakeholder has not enjoyed the success many predicted and opinion is split over whether the scheme will gather momentum. However, pension products generally have experienced a surge in interest. A sign of the times, perhaps, says…
Initiative needs "strong" leader.
The insurance industry's recent Raising Standards initiative would only succeed, said John Browne, d...
DVT cases gain pace.
The test case against airlines over deep vein thrombosis has gained pace, with the number of clients...
Appointment at Wilco.
Tom Wooders joins Wilco International as sales executive, North America, based in the company's New ...
MP in ABI flood row.
Labour MP Richard Burden slammed insurers for "arbitrarily putting up premiums and red-lining proper...
Eureko profits sink.
Pan-european insurer Eureko blamed the "global economic slowdown" for a drop in income and profits f...
Appointment at Trenwick International.
Specialist insurer and reinsurer Trenwick International has taken on David Clark, who joins the comp...