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Insurers off the hook in asbestos claim.
A House of Lords ruling means insurance companies may escape massive losses in one of the largest as...
Camberford Law nightclub package.
Nightclub owners can now be prevented from going down with a Saturday night fever worrying about ins...
Motorcycle exit.
Allianz Cornhill is to withdraw from the motorcycle market from 1 March in order to concentrate on d...
Dry run goes live.
Restoration specialists ActionDry and Document SOS have launched a new flood response service, SOS A...
Support for Names shows at Lloyd's elections.
Elections to the Council of Lloyd's have revealed support for the continued existence of Names, it i...
Boost for fans.
Newcastle United football fans fighting to save their seats following the ground's redevelopment rec...
Big thing in a materials world.
Engineering consultancy and materials testing firm Weeks Technical Services has signed a five-year m...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is dismayed to learn that deputy director general of the Association of British Insurers Tony ...
Appointment at Prime Health.
Julian Ross has been made marketing manager for Prime health. Mr Ross has been with Prime Health for...
Chance of a lifetime' for brokers.
Brokers were told mortgage protection offered them "the business opportunity of a lifetime" at the l...
Miami nice.
Le Mans Re has demonstrated its committment to the Caribbean and Latin American regions by decentral...
Government plans to allocate £33m to 1880 CCTV schemes.
Government plans to allocate £33m to 180 CCTV schemes in England and Wales have been welcomed by the...
Crawford quits Milton Keynes
Loss adjuster Crawford has moved its healthcare division out of Milton Keynes to new offices based at...
Redundancies at Zurich as offices set to close
Zurich Financial Services announced today that it is to close four of its locations, affecting approx...
CGU gets go ahead for Hibernian buy
Insurer CGU's acquisition of Ireland's Hibernian Group has been given the green light by the European...
Zurich sees new UK premiums rise
Zurich Financial Services said it had seen strong growth in UK business last year with life and inves...
Risk Capital Re sold to Folksamerica
Folksamerica Re is to pay $20.3m for the reinsurance operations of Risk Capital Holdings. The annou...
Pru on the rise
Prudential recorded a 61% increase in new life and pensions business last year according to figures r...
Call for help in move to single financial market
The City and the European Commission should work closer together as part of efforts to create a singl...
Old Mutual to takeover Gerrard
Old Mutual is to takeover the UK's Gerrard Group in a £525m agreed deal. Old Mutual chairman and ch...
Tony Baker quits ABI
Tony Baker, deputy director general of the Association of British Insurers is to leave the trade body...
Coface to form new venture following acquisition
A new company, Credico, is to be formed following the completion of credit insurer Coface LBF's purch...
Bradstock gets back in the ring
The long running saga over the future of insurance broker Bradstock continued this week as the compan...
Lloyd's Council election results
Graham McKean, chairman of Ballantyne, McKean & Sullivan and Paul Archard, managing director of PXRe ...