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Appointment at AIG Europe.
AIG Europe has appointed David Palmer as London-based crisis management corporate manager for the UK...
Grassroots champion.
David Worsfold meets Reg Brown, the straight-talking new president of the Chartered Insurance Institute, who has a hectic agenda lined up for his year in office.
Go directly to debit.
Small and medium-sized brokers and intermediaries are being encouraged to get their house in order t...
Winter of discontent warning.
A salvage company chief has warned that winter could bite hard for several businesses in the sector....
Angel's Angela is a bit naughty.
Angela Law's comments regarding the status of Angel Assistance ('More to Angel than meets the eye', ...
Why we should applaud CII.
The Chartered Insurance Institute meets in Harrogate this week as a myriad of issues that will deter...
Brera appoints CEO.
US investment company Brera Capital has appointed Joseph Zubretsky as the president and chief execut...
Norwich Union invest in future
Norwich Union has bolstered its attempt to become a top ten money manager in the UK with two new appo...
Audatex launches AudaPad.
Audatex has launched a Windows-based version of its portable estimating system, AudaPad. Over 160 in...
Both crash trains insured by St Paul.
The rush-hour train crash near Paddington Station on Tuesday morning has again raised serious questi...
Groupama UK takes shape
Gan Insurance and Lombard, the UK subsidiaries of French insurance giant Groupama-Gan, have confirmed...
London crash has echoes of Southall
Loss adjusters rushed to the scene of this morning's railcrash in London in which at least eight peop...
US groups file Y2K suits against insurers
Three US companies - Xerox, GTE and Unisys - have filed complaints against insurers which seek remedi...
Halifax to go online for insurance
Halifax will begin selling insurance products over the Internet from April next year under its plans ...
Industry wasting $50bn a year
Small improvements in insurer efficiency would translate into massive global savings for the industry...
Reinsurers targeted for takeover
Top reinsurers such as Bermudian groups Ace and XL Capital, and French reinsurer Scor could be target...
Motor insurance losses hit £1.6bn high
Motor insurance losses in the UK reached a record £1.6bn last year, a result even worse than market e...
Miller Pycraft targets liability sector
Loss adjuster Miller Pycraft is making a major play for the liability market with the launch of a new...
Churchill buys Devitt
Direct insurer Churchill has acquired personal lines broker Devitt Insurance for an undisclosed sum f...
Insurers monitor nuclear fallout in Japan
The Japan Atomic Energy Insurance Pool, set up by casualty insurers to manage nuclear insurance polic...
Scor points finger at p&c.
French reinsurance group Scor has blamed the poor state of the property and casualty market for a 32...
Swiss Re strengthens Paris office.
Swiss Re is expanding its Paris-based operation by transferring its French non-life business from Zu...
Passing judgement on the lawyers.
This exclusive extract from the latest edition of The Legal 500 reveals the top UK law firms for reinsurance, insurance litigation and insurance insolvency.
In search of the pot of gold.
The ills of the world markets are now firmly entrenched in South Africa, which also has to deal with its own parochial idiosyncrasies. Mark Haken reports from the rainbow nation.