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Appointment at Premier.
Consulting engineer Premier has taken on Andrew Gooud as its new managing director. He takes over th...
Business interruption bill to reach billions of dollars.
It now seems inevitable that the business interruption costs of last week's attacks on the US will d...
Human cost the industry must face.
While it remains our duty to report as accurately as possible on the mounting cost to the insurance ...
Appointment at Friends Provident.
Friends Provident has appointed Graham Harvey as director of marketing. Based in Salisbury, Mr Ha...
Minibus Plus MBO.
Minibus insurance provider Minibus Plus has been bought out by its management, following the purchas...
Messenger laments four years of sector losses.
Len Messenger of Zurich Global Energy, chairman of the offshore and energy committee, warned of the ...
ABI will not walk away from floods.
The insurance industry was not about to walk away from flood risks, said the Association of British ...
Reinsurers double loss estimates
Munich Re and Swiss Re, the two largest reinsurers, have more than doubled their inital estimates of ...
Set your video recorders ...
Tonight the BBC will look at the consequences for the business community, including the insurance ind...
Lawyers call for unity
A conference organised jointly by the association of personal injury lawyers (Apil) and the forum of ...
ATE insurers set for victory in Sawar case
After the event insurers expect to find out today that they succeeded in overturning a ruling in the ...
APIL welcomes Sarwar v Alam decision
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has welcomed today's ruling in the case of Sarwar v Alam, ...
RI3K launches Asian exchange
RI3K, previously known as city3k, has launched an exchange aimed at the $30bn Asian reinsurance marke...
GISC loses case against IIB over rule 42
The fledgling General Insurance Standards Council has lost its right to force members to only deal wi...
London to place Middle East on new war risk footing
The London War Risks Committee is set to designate a substantial portion of the Middle East a war ris...
Absent president addresses IUMI from New York
In a dramatic start to this year's International Union of Marine Underwriters' 127th Conference, Rich...
S&P says industry will ride impact of US attacks
Rating agency Standard & Poor's believes the insurance will be able to absorb the huge financial hit ...
US tragedy: news updates
Post Magazine and its sister titles would like to extend their condolences to all those who have lost...
Scotching the problems.
The Chartered Insurance Institute's annual two-day conference takes place next week in Edinburgh. Anthony Gould reflects on what has been a troubled 12 months for the industry, with the CII firmly committed to taking it forward.
Sweeping changes as Prudential and Scottish Amicable combine
Prudential UK's senior management has been culled as a result of a substantial review of its business...
Appointment at Scor.
Following the acquisition of Sorema, Scor has made several new appointments. Benedict Ho becomes ...
Up in smoke?
Local authorities are turning to self-insurance and as a result, their relationship with insurers has been put on the back burner. But by developing their advisory capacity and being flexible to LAs' needs, insurers can stoke up the role they play in the…
Appointment at Sherwood International.
Sherwood International, a provider of information technology solutions to the global insurance marke...
Holocaust policy dispute hots up.
The ill-feeling between the US and German insurance industries over compensating Holocaust survivors...