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MULRA gets Eastgate
Eastgate Assistance has finally joined the Motor Uninsured Loss Recovery Association, a professional ...
ZFS profits up as UK arm performs strongly
Zurich Financial Services has recorded profits up 16% to $3.2bn with a strong performance from its UK...
CGNU appointments
CGU and Norwich Union, which are shortly due to merge to form CGNU have announced the designate execu...
NHS facing massive negligence claims
The cost of medical negligence claims against the National Health Service has rocketed according to t...
ING Re opens in Ireland
ING Reinsurance International has opened an office in Dublin. The office is to be headed by Graham...
CGNU message to intermediaries
Following last week's shareholder vote approving the merger of CGU and Norwich Union to form CGNU, Pa...
CGU and Tesco join for life
CGU has tied up with Tesco Personal Finance, the joint venture company owned by Tesco and the Royal B...
Broker Direct turns the corner
Broker-owned marketing company Broker Direct, which is underwritten by Cornhill subsidiary Trafalgar ...
GISC decision delayed
The European Commission's decision on whether to take over the task of approving the General Insuranc...
CGNU gets the go-ahead
CGNU is now on target to be officially launched in June following Friday's meeting of shareholders fr...
TGN calls it a day - for now
Personal lines intermediary network, TGN, part of Leeds-based Greatminster Group is to discontinue op...
RSA pinpoints savings of £20m
Royal & Sun Alliance is looking to make annualised savings of £20m following implimentation of a new ...
Massive fall in US p&c
A dramatic fall in operating and investment income has hit the US property casualty industry, resulti...
Wellington Underwriting Agencies announce profits.
Wellington Underwriting Agencies has announced profits of 7.2% on the £602m ($951m) total capacity o...
Cross-border clashes.
Peter Chaffetz and Howard Seife examine the conflict between Section 304 of the US Bankruptcy Code and arbitration provisions in cross-border insolvencies.
Delay of Swiss Re's new London headquarters.
The building of Swiss Re's proposed new London headquarters (pictured in a computer image) has been ...
Blanch offers Catalyst.
Broker EW Blanch has claimed that its recently launched catastrophe modelling software - Catalyst - ...
IRMG appointment.
Michael Douglas has joined IRMG as vice-president. He joins the New Jersey-based captive manager fro...
Gerling expansion.
Gerling Global Re of America has established an ocean marine underwriting division. The company has ...
Corifrance concern.
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has put its ratings of French reinsurer Corifrance under review "with negati...
St Paul Re in Labuan.
St Paul Re has been approved to write business from Malaysia's offshore financial centre on Labuan. ...
Invitation to a grand opening.
Excitement is building over the privatisation and deregulation of Brazil's (re)insurance industry. Luiz Carlos Del Boni Magalhaes and Carlos Alberto Caputo outline the opportunities in this massive market.
Lehman Re completes first quake securitisation.
Bermuda-based Lehman Re has offset nearly $150m of Californian earthquake and resulting fire risk th...
Bavarian Re's tonic.
There is an almost universal drive to improve the quality of rehabilitation offered to seriously inj...