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Appointment at Groupama Insurances.
Jacci Taylor, Gareth Holt, Jon Morrell and Stephen Albutt have been appointed as directors of Groupa...
Plates say it all.
Directors of liabilty adjusters Specialist Liability Services Michael Woolston (left) and Andrew Whi...
Co-operative fun.
Co-operative Insurance Society has revamped its website, www.cis.co.uk to include fun and family fea...
SLPH sees hard road ahead
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings, owned by French giant Axa, said the outlook for the current year was ...
Britannic profit up 12%
Britannic recorded a modest 12% rise in pre-tax operating profit to £152.4m for 1999. The company, wh...
New insurance entities wait in the wings
The UK could see almost a dozen new insurance entities starting up over coming months according to th...
Mitsui plans new London insurance company
London market insurer Mitsui Marine & Fire Insurance (Europe) plans to establish a new insurance comp...
Aon hit by special charges.
Aon was hit by special charges of $150m in 1999, the global broker has revealed. Just over half o...
EW Blanch net income leaps 25%.
Reinsurance broker EW Blanch saw its net income jump by a quarter last year to $39.7m from $31.8m in...
Bavarians in Oslo.
Bavarian Re is to open an office in Oslo later this year. It will focus on alternative risk transfer...
Reanalysis - Lloyd's - Lime Street's new look for a new era.
Efforts to make Lloyd's more attractive to its brokers and clients and to strengthen the Lloyd's franchise are the focus of the Lloyd's Market Board (LMB) for the next 3 years, according to a strategy document published last month,writes Janina Clark
Muted celebrations.
Janina Clark and Cameron Andrews find Singapore's reinsurers starting their new year with both new challenges and old problems.
Bermuda at Lloyd's.
Four Bermudian lawyers have set up a firm specialising in (re)insurance litigation and arbitration w...
Lloyd's Asia finally ready to open in Singapore.
Lloyd's is close to receiving approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for the creati...
Gateway to Europe.
US and now European companies are using an Irish captive as their entry into European or global insurance. Adrian Leonard reports.
Careless talk costs money.
William Perry and Samantha Miller explain how to prevent privileged communications between cedant and reinsurer ending up in the wrong hands.
Rags to riches.
Once one of the poorest capitals in Europe, Dublin is now booming. More and more reinsurers are opening offices and the infrastructure is creaking under the strain. Adrian Leonard reports.
Gerling expands.
Gerling Global Re America is to write property facultative business from its US offices. Robert Gidd...
Daniel joins Tempest.
Wayne Daniel is to lead Tempest Re's multiline expansion into Europe and Asia. Monoline Bermudian pr...
Under pressure.
Despite several years of poor or negative results, aviation (re)insurers are once more struggling to turn the market, says Hans Sandstrom.
Transatlantic Poles US-based.
Transatlantic Re has opened an office in Warsaw. Transatlantic Polska, based at the Warsaw Financial...
Japanese P&C profit warning.
Liberalisation in the Japanese property and casualty (P&C) market has put the long-term profitabilit...
German life in Asia.
Hannover Re is to write life and health business in Malaysia and Hong Kong. The German reinsurer has...
Insurance for the dot.com generation.
The keys to successful e-commerce are uninterrupted access and customer and investor confidence. In a series of four articles, Alan Fisher and Belinda Saddington explore the opportunities those needs offer insurers.