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Axa targets brokers.
Axa Insurance is to try and match broker needs through the expansion of its business-risk.com site. ...
PRO to handle run-off.
Swiss Re has established a new Lloyd's managing agency to handle run-off business. PRO Syndicate ...
CSM on track.
Cox Syndicate Management has said discussions regarding Crowe syndicate 963 are progressing satisfac...
Helphire losses.
Credit hire firm Helphire which has recorded a net loss of £1.1m for the six months to the end of Se...
Da Vinci in the frame.
Renaissance Re's new Bermudian-based venture Da Vinci Reinsurance started accepting binding business...
Life sector is poorly regulated.
The life insurance industry is poorly regulated and too focused on independent financial advisers, s...
Director Pexton quits Cox.
Richard Pexton, board director and underwriting director of Cox Commercial Division, has quit the co...
Appointment at TCA Consulting.
Alan Craft has joined TCA Consulting, IT consultants to the financial sector, as client director. He...
Appointment at IRMG.
Praveen Sharma has been taken on by IRMG as a senior consultant. Prior to this move, Mr Sharma was a...
63% in the dark.
Almost two-thirds (63%) of policyholders are unaware there is anyone who would compensate them for t...
View from the US.
Any proposed legislation to provide insurers assistance with terrorism cover could place a heavy bur...
Inreon into treaty.
Online reinsurance trading platform Inreon has broadened its capabilities into the treaty reinsuranc...
Sirius contract opens market.
Sirius Financial Systems has opened the door to bigger clients through a partnership deal with CMG ...
All Party Group leaders elected.
Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham, has been elected as the third deputy chairman of th...
OECD clamps down on harmful captives.
Eight captive domiciles remain on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's list ...
Brokers ready to control destiny.
Brokers and intermediaries are increasingly looking to their insurance providers and asking searchin...
Folgate deal in final stages.
Folgate Insurance's transformation into an underwriting agency is unlikely to take place before the ...
Is Charcol's site burning bright?
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Insurers must learn from mistakes, says O'Sullivan
Patrick O'Sullivan, chief executive of Zurich's general insurance business in the UK, has called for ...
United States Attorney's Office ends Lloyd's investigation
Lloyd's has been informed by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New Yor...
Ins-sure to lay off 80
Ins-sure, the company formed from the merger of the Lloyd's Policy Signing Office and the London Proc...
Folgate joins Abbey National's online panel
Folgate Insurance has joined Abbey National's new buildings and contents insurance 'quote and buy' se...
Lord Hunt to call for extension of Pool Re
The government should extend its terrorist insurance cover, Lord Hunt of Wirral, law firm Beachcroft ...
Axis secures $1.6bn capital
Axis Specialty, the new reinsurer backed by broker Marsh, has secured over $1.6bn of capital in a pri...