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Appointment at Chubb Europe.
Chubb Europe has recruited Paul Barnett as construction specialist within its engineered & special p...
Liability adjusters should not be ignored.
I agree with much of what Jason Nash said in his article "SIF - Insurers take a step back" (PM, 24 A...
Penny Black's insurance week.
City institutions are notoriously conservative bodies, none more so than the livery companies. Keep ...
Appointment at Friends Provident.
Friends Provident has appointed Jamie McIver as director of direct business operations, a position t...
Asbestos claims hike to bring Equitas to brink.
Equitas, the company established by Lloyd's to handle the pre-1992 liabilities of Names, could be fa...
Dial Direct calls up Pinnacle.
Coventry-based intermediary Dial Direct has entered the pet insurance market with the help of an est...
InsureStream: a steady flow.
Online insurance market, InsureStream, has been launched in the UK by US company e-Insurance Systems...
PXRe denies exit plans
Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRe has finally denied that it intends to leave Lloyd's (Post Magazine 14 Se...
ALP to enter the personal lines market.
Abbey Legal Protection is set to make a push into the personal lines market, with a number of employ...
Mynd your EC.
IT solutions and services provider Mynd, is to launch a series of programmes to enable users to comp...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Charles Lennox has been appointed motor trade underwriting manager and will be based in the company'...
Depressing year for cargo.
Kevan Gielty, chairman of the Cargo Committee, presented feedback from IUMI's cargo members, which r...
Appointment at The Beckett Group.
The Beckett Group has added another senior financial adviser to its team. Steven Wellard joins the K...
Appointment at The Leisure Consortium at Lloyd's.
Iain Ward previously underwriter-contingency is now contingency underwriting manager; Jane Todd has ...
Appointment at Legal Costs Assessors.
Stephen Pitt has joined the Bristol office of Legal Costs Assessors as deputy managing director. He ...
Court in the Act.
Marcus Alcock asks law firms what advice they would give to insurers in advance of the Human Rights Act going live.
Lloyd's may lose PXRe.
Troubled Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRe is understood to be planning an exit from Lloyd's only four ye...
Orphan move faces challenge.
Axa could face legal action over the distribution of its £1.7bn orphan funds following a decision by...
A question of rights.
Kevin Fletcher answers the most frequently asked questions concerning the implementation of the new Human Rights Act, ahead of its introduction on 2 October.
Premiums decline rapidly.
Marine insurance premiums declined in 1999 according to statistics presented by Tore Forsmo, managin...
Travel online.
Nationwide Building Society has put its travel insurance policies online at its site www.nationwide....
JLT global tie-up.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson hopes to boost its corporate broking and risk consultancy business wit...
GISC slams training body.
The General Insurance Standards Council has slammed the Institute of Financial Services for claiming...
Capital approaches.
GE Capital, the financial services arm of American conglomerate General Electric, is reported to hav...