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Brockbank takes off.
Brockbank Insurance Services (BIS) is to expand its aviation business in the US. From 1 January 2000...
Re goes online.
The Reinsurance website - re-world.com - is now live, carrying an online news service, the latest is...
Turkish pool worries insurers.
A plan by the Turkish government to set up a compulsory domestic property insurance scheme and insur...
Business interruption creates most claims.
Local insurers are still processing the claims from the Richter 7.3 earthquake that hit Taiwan on 21...
Dex ready to write marine.
The new Lloyd's marine hull syndicate being created by Swiss Re, Chartwell Re and marine mutual mana...
Of men and mortgages.
A skills shortage and limited office space are the main obstacles facing new entrants to the Bermuda market. Cameron Andrews reports.
St Paul closes US property.
St Paul Re is withdrawing from facultative property business in the US. The Minnesota-based compa...
Full of Seoul.
Bahrain-based Arig Re has strengthened its operations in East Asia by opening a liaison office in Se...
Ace hit by $35m catastrophe losses.
Catastrophes will cost Bermudian (re)insurer Ace an estimated $35m after tax in the quarter to the e...
Vanishing Venton.
Following the acquisition of the Venton Group by Underwriters Re late last year, the group has been ...
Amlin loses out.
PXRe Managing Agency has taken over management of Lloyd's first captive from Amlin Capital Managemen...
Insurance at heart of mortgage industry malaise
Bank and building society heads are to be warned by the government today that if the industry does no...
Rhine Re shuts London office
Rhine Re has closed the London market office of newly acquired Equus Re. The business underwritten by...
TMGRe in operational restructure
Tokio Marine Global Re in Dublin is to become the centre for the reinsurance operations of its parent...
HSBC cuts charges.
HSBC Bank has cut the charges on new personal pension plans to give customers higher transfer value ...
Not so traditional now.
Civil litigation as we knew it changed radically on 26 April. Marcus Alcock gauges the reactions to Woolf of those solicitors who are dealing with the changes on a day-to-day basis, and also looks at the effects the reforms have had on insurers.
Appointment at Crowe Insurance.
Lloyd's insurer Crowe Insurance Group has appointed Kim Fox as compliance officer and Michael Falcon...
Scot Am offers discount on ISAs.
Scottish Amicable has introduced a discount on the cost of its Optisima individual savings account i...
Norwich Union ties up with St Paul
Norwich Union is to pass the renewal rights on its book of professional indemnity business to St Paul...
A burning issue of law.
A conundrum for insurers dealing with a building damaged by fire as a result of a building defect is...
Kiln hit by £6.2m loss.
Lloyd's big hitter Kiln has suffered a £6.2m loss for the first six months of the year. The result w...
L&G sends out self-regulation rallying call.
Composite insurer Legal & General has called for life and pensions firms to work together in prepara...
Bonus expectations did not create contractual rights.
The principal activity of the Equitable Life Assurance Society was the transaction of life assurance...
Learning the ropes.
As protocols for personal injury and clinical negligence are put into action, others are taking shape, as David Fanning finds out.