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Net result of e-recruitment.
As recruiters and job-hunters alike make more use of online recruitment facilities, Edward Murray asks whether the industry is attracting enough high-calibre candidates through this channel.
Run-off sector boom.
The run-off sector is set to boom as increasing numbers of insurers and Lloyd's syndicates close the...
C&C wins contract.
Loss adjuster Crawford & Company's UK Corporate Client Service Centre has secured a three-year accid...
RSA set to unveil electronic link for top-end brokers.
Royal & Sun Alliance is set to unveil an £18m electronic link for its top-end brokers, Global Workpl...
Irish motor study.
A report on the profitability and pricing of Irish motor insurance by actuarial consultants Tillingh...
Ruthless cuts vital.
Insurers must be ruthless and cut their support range to the majority of intermediaries if they are ...
N-DEX launched.
IT solutions provider Northdoor has launched its N-DEX data exchange interface for the Lloyd's marke...
LifeQuote teams up with RSA.
Online intermediary Life-Quote has entered an exclusive partnership with Royal & Sun Alliance, in a ...
NU in 2003 online commercial push.
Norwich Union has started work on a new project designed to provide its brokers with online commerci...
Guardian sets up Scalenet.
Disaster recovery firm Guardian iT, which last year saw its web-hosting operation at Heathrow Corpor...
Comverse wins Admiral deal.
Admiral Insurance has selected New York-based Comverse Infosys to provide it with call centre record...
Gallagher aims for top-five position.
US broking giant Arthur J Gallagher & Co has revealed that it aims take a top-five position in the U...
View from the top - Paul Spencer
Paul Spencer, UK chief executive Royal & Sun Alliance. Much has been said and written this year abo...
What the Papers Say.
The Sunday Times A British tourist, who was savaged by a dingo during a holiday in Queensland, is...
Inreon hosts cat capacity sale
Inreon, the internet reinsurance trading platform, is holding sales of European property catastrophe ...
Durand to be vice-president at Scor
French reinsurer Scor has announced that Romain Durand, president and chief operating officer of grou...
Standard Life forges forward
Despite continuing rumblings for demutualisation, Standard Life increased both premium revenue and sa...
2002 good for reinsurance stocks
Insurance industry stocks will do well next year, according to investment bank Fox-Pitt, Kelton (FPK)...
Danes acquire Ark & General and Electromec
Ark & General and Electromec, two UK damage recovery businesses, have been acquired by Danish facilit...
PWS Holdings in joint venture with Gecalux Group
Reinsurance broker PWS Holdings and Luxemburg-based enterprise risk management and captive management...
AM Best Downgrades Rating of CTR
The A- (Excellent) rating on Compagnie Transcontinentale de Reassurance (CTR), Paris has been downgra...
Scor creates Dublin reinsurer
French reinsurance giant Scor is to set up a reinsurance vehicle in Dublin. The company, Irish Rein...
Copenhagen Re ceases underwriting
Copenhagen Re has stopped writing business, making it the first reinsurance casualty of the terrorist...
Life in Lithuania.
UK insurer CGNU is investing £5m in Lithuania, in an effort to become a leading player in the life i...