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ING lifts sex ban.
Dutch financial services giant ING bank has lifted its ban on sex workers opening business accounts....
A-P quits London.
Personal injury specialist Amery-Parkes is pulling out of London to focus primarily on litigation fr...
Xmas card orders.
The Insurance Charities Christmas cards, based on designs from children who won a recent Post Magazi...
Angling for cover.
The solicitors' professional indemnity season has kicked off and several big fish have taken the plunge. While rates increase as they jostle for position, Simon Threadgold assesses the impact of the resulting rate rises across the whole PI sector.
Appointment at Chaucer Syndicates.
Chaucer Syndicates has taken on Andy Robinson as class underwriter for its non-marine syndicate 1096...
Axa posts strong half-year results
Results released by French insurer Axa for the six months to 31 July 2001 have shown a jump in both e...
Appointment at Rubicon.
The Rubicon Corporation has made seven appointments to its management team. Tony Sherman, who moved ...
JLT rebranding.
The US reinsurance subsidiary of broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, Jardine Sayer, has been rebran...
Crabtree makes Watkins move.
Watkins Syndicate 457 is gearing up to enter the marine liability market, having appointed Oliver Cr...
Lloyd's net move with Marinesure.
Advances towards the internet in the Lloyd's market continued this week, with the launch of Marinesu...
ABI slammed on damages delay.
A leading claimant solicitor has slammed the Association of British Insurers for dragging its feet o...
Life:outlined launch.
Standard Life this week launched a new website at www.lifeoutlined.co.uk to compliment its customer ...
WTC: fears for colleagues.
At the annual Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vous, all proceedings and meetings came to a dramatic ha...
Equitable actuary.
Michael Arnold has been appointed the independent actuary for Equitable Life's compromise agreement....
MULRA blocked over motor data.
The Motor Insurers' Information Centre, which was scheduled to launch its database of individually i...
Lock IT or lose it.
British companies are far too blase when it comes to the security of their IT systems. It is vital they take cyber risks seriously - or they may regret it later, says Edward Murray.
Equitas gives Names asbestos warning.
Equitas, the company established to handle the pre-1993 liabilities of Lloyd's Names, has confirmed t...
Appointment at Ward Evans.
Leeds-based insurance and financial services provider Ward Evans Group has appointed Nick Thompson a...
Down to earth.
Environmental responsibility is high on the government's agenda, as it declares war on polluters. The advent of specialist intermediaries makes the redevelopment of brown-field sites more viable, says David Fanning.
TUC to lobby on pay disparity.
The Trades Union Congress will lobby the government to revisit its rejection of mandatory audits for...
Castle Cairn joins Broker Network.
Edinburgh broker Castle Cairn has become the latest company to join the Broker Network citing the ta...
Tribunal fee dropped.
The government has abandoned controversial proposals to charge disgruntled employees £100 for lodgin...
Terrorist atrocity leaves insurers facing record costs
In the wake of the havoc that was wreaked in the US yesterday the total bill to insurers is expected to top the $3bn (£2.05bn) paid out following the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in 1988, which is currently the most expensive man-made incident for…
AIA rejects claims of domestic insolvencies
The American Insurance Association has denied that it is expecting any domestic insurer insolvencies,...