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A to B in UK via AA.
AA cardholders can access free route information for anywhere in the UK on the AA's website at www.t...
Appointment at Aon Consulting.
Richard Cox has joined Aon Consulting as a senior consultant at its Bristol office. Previously he wa...
£164m in the red.
Australian insurer AMP has slipped into the red by A$398 (£164m) partly due to liabilities incurred ...
Red phone firm rings in Internet changes.
Direct Line has launched a new website aimed at the motor and home insurance market (Internet sales ...
In the wake of Woolf.
With the Woolf Reforms now several months' old, Ken Cannar looks at the impact that they have had so far and also on the ways in which they have still to affect legal cases for insurers.
NU fights disclosure case.
In 1989 Norwich Union marketed two kinds of plan to Lloyd's Names. Under the plans, NU provided a...
Club Direct.
A leading travelling insurer has decided to mind the gap. With more students choosing to travel abro...
Seven sued.
Seven US insurers have been sued by policyholders claiming that they require auto repair shops to us...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
PCS has made three key appointments. David Damsell joins as an engineer based at the PCS London offi...
Runaway broker fights extradition.
A Dublin broker who fled to England after being expelled by the Irish Brokers' Association is to fig...
Decent exposure.
David Gilchrist, chairman of integrated Lloyd's vehicle Kiln, has predicted that Kiln's syndicates w...
Swiss Re's Paris HQ.
Swiss Re has concentrated all of its French business at one Paris office as it prepares to extend th...
Appointment at Syndicate 55.
Nick Revill has been made regional underwriter for Syndicate 55. Previously he was commercial sales ...
RSI: the heat is on.
The recent award of £10,000 to a blacksmith claiming damages for repetitive strain injury has reheat...
Appointment at Quest Gates Partnership.
Glyn Robertshaw has joined the team of senior adjusters at the Quest Gates Partnership and will be b...
Appointment at QBE.
Timothy Kenny has been promoted to executive vice-president of QBE's American operations, taking res...
Re - 30 years - Messages ignored.
Trawling through the Reinsurance archive to compile this 30th anniversary issue (see pp25-39) has be...
Laying down the law.
John Butler, Reinsurance's legal correspondent for 30 years, selects some of the defining moments in the history of reinsurance law.
More political risk.
Bermudian political risk underwriting agency Sovereign Risk Insurance is to increase its capacity fr...
Aon strengthens Greek sisters.
Greek sister companies Turner Reinsurance Services and Viggas Reinsurance Brokers have found extra m...
Terra Nova sold to Markel for $905m.
US insurer Markel's agreement to pay $905m for Bermudian (re)insurer Terra Nova has received a cauti...
Where the ART is ...
Reinsurers may be the most likely originators of early securitisation deals, but primary insurers ar...
Allianz takes to Irish tax haven.
Allianz, Europe's largest insurer, is to establish a group retention vehicle in Dublin's Internation...
A reversal of duties.
The fraud conviction of US Aviation Underwriters has been overturned. Laura Zimmitti assesses the implications.