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PwC Asia head.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the professional services supplier, has appointed Aubrey Whitear as leader o...
Bermuda's leaders calm business fears.
The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) has been quick to reassure Bermuda's business community following...
Marsh & CcLennan Companies.
Broking giant Marsh & McLennan Companies boosted its net income by a third to $186m in the third qua...
General Re buys into Lloyd's future.
US giant General Re has entered the Lloyd's market for the first time with the acquisition of D.P. M...
Brown for Lloyd's.
Lloyd's has appointed former World Insurance Network chief executive Tom Brown to take charge of its...
Mutual challenges.
Pressures abound on P&I clubs, says Standard & Poor's Fiona Thompson.
Copenhagen Re in the market for acquisitions.
The acquisition of a company or portfolio is high on Copenhagen Re's list of priorities, chief execu...
All together now.
Mention the word 'merger' in the (re)insurance world these days and many will flinch. "Oh no, not an...
Reinsurers stem the tide.
Faced with pressures from inside and outside the market, Eric Alexander finds marine reinsurers fighting back.
JLT merges units.
Lloyd's broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson is to merge its London market insurance and reinsurance operat...
Lloyd's agent banned.
Lloyd's regulators have banned Cuthbert Heath Underwriting, the former managing agent of syndicate 4...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has promoted Bob Middleton to agency controller in its Edenbridge marketing de...
Cross-border life sales rocket.
Cross-border sales of life insurance within the 18 states of the European Economic Area has eclipsed...
Return to lender.
It's now thought cool to finance your lifestyle with someone else's money. Where do insurers fit into this lending spree? Simon Threadgold reports.
New Year to bring new name for Scottish Equitable.
Scottish Equitable is to begin 1999 with a new corporate structure operating under the name Aegon UK...
Panel settles marathon row.
The long-running dispute between the bankrupt Swedish credit insurer Svenska Kredit and its reinsure...
Lloyd's denies IBRC allegations.
Lloyd's has denied claims that it's encouraging brokers to leave the Insurance Brokers Registration ...
RSA to axe 300 call centre jobs.
Royal & Sun Alliance is to axe almost 300 jobs next year as it closes two of its customer service ce...
FSA planning definitive designation for financial advisors.
The Financial Services Authority is working on a new designation for financial advisors. The reve...
The Maritime Insurance Company hoping for no icebergs.
The Maritime Insurance Company will be hoping that two container ships they have underwritten stay c...
Staff grin and bear it for Pudsey.
The insurance industry once again played its part in the BBC's Children in Need Appeal last week wit...
Appointment at Crowe Insurance.
Darryl Meech has been appointed senior deputy underwriter of Crowe Life, the largest syndicate at Ll...
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£7m anti-flood plan could burst the banks.
The Environment Agency plans to splash out an additional £7m a year in an effort to foil the floods....