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Halifax General Insurance selects Crawford & Co
Halifax General Insurance Services has selected Crawford & Company UK to handle its overflow propert...
Appointment at Ace European Group
Susan Rowland has joined Ace European Group's multinational casualty department in Manchester as an ...
Appointment at Community Broking Group
Manchester-based broker Community Broking Group has made two senior level appointments. David Worsle...
NU replaces Eric Galbraith
Norwich Union has replaced Hill House Hammond managing director Eric Galbraith with NU intermediary ...
Smart and Cook acquire insurance broking business
Smart and Cook has acquired the £1m insurance broking business of Adams Financial Services in Lincol...
Brit aims to grow its subsidiary
Brit Insurance Holdings is likely to maintain its underwriting capacity at Lloyd's in 2004, while lo...
Stephen Cane criticises Treasury
Stephen Cane, chairman of the International Underwriting Association and chief executive of Alea Lon...
Glass's Information Services forms repairer group
Glass's Information Services has formed a repairer consultative group for customers of its estimatin...
The Davis Group signs licence agreement
Broker The Davis Group has signed a licence agreement with Sirius Financial Systems to use the suppl...
New entrant targets liability market
Irish insurance giant Quinn Direct has entered the English liability market and aims to write £100m-...
FSA plans could see capital exodus
The UK insurance industry could face an exodus of capital to offshore centres like Gibraltar, unless...
Lloyd's consortium aims to fill terrorism gap
A consortium of Lloyd's insurers has stepped in to offer a new form of terrorist insurance to fill a...
ABI seeks to counter claims in Datamonitor report
The Association of British Insurers has sought to counter claims made in a Datamonitor report last w...
UK insurers fail to keep pace with terror threat
The UK insurance industry is failing to keep pace with modern terrorist threats, such as chemical an...
Handover may see GISC complaints lost
Consumers could see complaints being lost in the system when statutory general insurance regulation ...
Penny Black's insurance week
Andy Homer might claim to be visionary when it comes to insurance but he also showed sporting foresi...
Primary buy boosts staff
Health-related employee benefits consultancy Health for Industry, part of Bermudian-based insurance ...
Time to test yourself: A selection of questions from various CII qualification papers
Studying for Chartered Insurance Institute exams, or just feel like testing yourself? How will you do with the first in a series of past questions selected from CII papers? Answers on the right
Training alone is not enough
Companies that rely solely on training courses for staff development needs are doomed to failure, ac...
Appointment at MMA Insurance
MMA Insurance has appointed Paul Cousans as a new business development executive for Yorkshire, Humb...
Professional indemnity claims for IT consultants have increased
Professional indemnity claims for IT consultants have increased by more than 40% in the last four ye...
CII set for new London Market Test
The Chartered Insurance Institute could soon begin work with the Insurance Institute of London to es...
Freehold for Lloyd's building put up for sale
The freehold for the Lloyd's building is being put up for sale by its owner Deka, the German operato...
Fortis says inquest verdict will not impact payment of claims
Fortis has said the inquest verdict on the six passengers and four railway employees killed in the S...