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Nat West sale leaves CGU sitting pretty.
CGU's presence in the UK life sector has received a huge boost following Royal Bank of Scotland's £2...
Team of the year.
City solicitors Lovells has been named Insurance Team of the Year at the Legal Business awards, held...
Europ Assistance to provide Kwik-Fit fitters.
Europ Assistance has signed a deal with Kwik-Fit Insurance Services to handle its 24-hour Domestic H...
Goshawk is suing US show.
Listed Lloyd's vehicle Goshawk is suing the US version of the hit ITV show Who Wants to be a Million...
Exclusive - CGU ready to cast 'Net wider.
Insurer CGU is set to follow the launch of its Internet auction business bluecycle. com with two "ev...
Appointment at St Paul Syndicate Management.
Chris Murphy O'Connor has been made energy underwriter for St Paul's marine syndicate. He was previo...
Loss prediction.
AIG has predicted losses of £3.75bn for the insurance industry as a result of the recent European st...
Ex-managers form adjuster.
A former Garwyn manager and Lombard claims manager have set up a new liability adjuster. The Birm...
Appointment at Royal London Insurance.
Royal London has appointed two new regional heads. Colin Hughes will be the company's Newcastle Upon...
Canada Life favourite to buy Colonial.
Canada Life is set to swoop for Colonial UK after takeover rival Countrywide Assured pulled out of a...
Bumper payouts.
South African insurers look set for enormous payouts following the country's worst floods for 20 yea...
Ignore rehab at your peril.
The UK insurance industry must wrestle with rehabilitation or risk going out of business, a leading ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
After spending a day being thoroughly motivated at PM's own Rehabilitation First Campaign conference...
Home truths.
Think of the Home Counties. If the best you can come up with is Essex boy racers and outraged letter-writers from Tunbridge Wells, then think again. Marcus Alcock discovers that for many players in the insurance world, there's no place like Home
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Sarah Witwicka has joined PCS as vocational case manager. A qualified staff nurse and holder of an M...
ECS revises pollution insurance programme
ECS Underwriting, a subsidiary of XL Capital, has redesigned its pollution insurance programme for pe...
Ace loss expenses treble
Ace's losses and loss expenses jumped to $1.6bn for fiscal 1999 - more than three times the figure fo...
Salvage industry on road to recovery
Insurers and motor salvage companies are cooperating - despite differences between their trade bodies...
St Paul rejects price hike claims
St Paul has denied broker Aon's claims it is set to exploit the solicitors' professional indemnity ma...
Abbey to shake up market
Abbey Legal Protection is to shake up the employment dispute insurance market by cutting premiums on ...
Solicitors Shed Six
The Solicitors Indemnity Fund has told six law firms on its panel to stop accepting new referrals. ...
General Re reviews options for financial products unit
General Re is "exploring strategic alternatives for General Re Financial Products", the US reinsurer ...
Alliance & Leicester and Lloyds TSB get Internet bug
Alliance and Leicester plans to launch a stand-alone Internet operation it said today as it recorded ...
Swann takes over underwriting at Zurich
David Swann has been appointed underwriting manager at Zurich Personal Insurances and will take overa...