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HartRe in Italy.
Hartford Re is to assume Italian insurer La Fondiaria's property/casualty reinsurance business. In a...
Insurers in the slow lane.
Adrian Leonard finds the aggressive European motor market, with its continued soft rates and a decline in proportional treaties, keeping reinsurers in the red.
A healthy environment for insurance
Tony Lennon assesses recent developments and trends in UK environmental insurance, following delays by successive governments in defining statutory contamination liability.
The Christ child cometh.
The climatic phenomenon known as 'El Nino' has received some bad press recently, but although its effects are certainly global, they have yet to be fully understood, says Tony Dowding.
New Labour, new market.
This year's Swiss Re Life & Health Insurance Report indicates that UK consumers are taking financial matters into their own hands, says Peter Maynard.
Lehman establishes reinsurance arm.
Investment banker Lehman Brothers has set up a reinsurance subsidiary to offer securitisation and st...
PWS Holdings reports rise in profits.
London-based reinsurance broker PWS Holdings reported pre-tax profit up 7% to £0.83m ($1.35m) in the...
ILU/Lirma merger shows its colours.
As Reinsurance went to press, members of the Institute of London Underwriters and the London Interna...
Cartograph renamed.
UK catastrophe modeller Cartograph has changed its name to Risk Management Solutions Limited followi...
S&P ratings unreliable, say P&I managers.
Managers of some protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs are unhappy about the first set of club rating...
Huge liability claims likely after crash.
Huge liability claims look likely to hit (re)insurers following the crash of a high-speed Inter-City...
BUPA in health deal.
BUPA International has entered into a partnership with relocation specialist First Point Internation...
Appointment at Moore & Blatch.
A serious motorbike crash when he was 21 made Alan Moger decide to opt for a legal career working wi...
Appointment at Veitch Penny.
Former loss adjuster Darren Salter was recently admitted as a solicitor at a Law Society ceremony in...
Windscreens could be clearer.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Think FEW for fewer accidents.
Hill House Hammond is recognising National Child Safety Week this week by giving advice which could ...
Only NU backs NHS.
Norwich Union Healthcare is the only healthcare company sponsoring the National Health Service confe...
BAV chief cautions against 'turnover at any price'.
Last week I was in Berlin for the annual meeting of the Presse Internationale des Assurances, an ass...
Legacy of software.
Pericom Software has introduced a legacy application re-engineering program, which works in conjunct...
Government relocation heralds major changes.
Germany is currently undergoing an enormous change as a result of re-unification. Nowhere is this...
Appointment at INDECS.
Ian Willcocks has joined the risk management team at INDECS from Sedgwick Bankrisk, where he spent 1...
PIA acts on compliance.
The PIA has repremanded David Jackson Insurance Services after several concerns were identified rega...
Power to the people.
In recent years, derecognition turned many unions into toothless tigers. But Steve Banner explains how the government's Fairness at Work White Paper will once again give them some bite.
Primechoice sponsors.
Michael Smith (above) of Primechoice celebrates a new sponsorship deal with Bailey Fairs, the larges...