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Innovation on call.
Syntellect Europe, the software specialist based in in Maidenhead, Berkshire, has launched a new cal...
Bupa transfer offer.
Cornhill Insurance is to offer its customers the chance to transfer their medical insurance to Bupa ...
Arson research.
Nearly 20% of convicted arsonists suffer from some form of mental disorder, according to research pu...
Appointment at Munters.
Property restoration specialist Munters has made three appointments as part of its expansion in Scot...
Allianz Cornhill forms team to boost personal lines business
Allianz Cornhill has appointed a personal lines business development team which will focus on develop...
ISO launches tax service
A service set to help insurers in Florida and Kentucky combat the risk of penalties for non-complianc...
Hope glimmers for property/catastrophe market
New evidence of a tightening of rates in the property catastrophe market has come to light according ...
Woolwich & Marsh join forces
Woolwich and broker Marsh have confirmed they are to set up a 50:50 independent financial advisor joi...
Crash Boeing hull insurer
The hull of the EgyptAir Boeing 767 jetliner which crashed into the sea yesterday, killing all 217 pa...
Jones quits Hiscox for key role at Chubb
Ralph Jones III has quit Hiscox as director and as managing director of the Hiscox Insurance Company ...
Ace and XL in Capital clash.
Bermudian insurers Ace and XL were locked in a battle for Capital Re, the US financial guarantee rei...
And the winner is ...
Congratulations to Sabrina Braccia of the domestic treaty division of Ital Re Group in Milan, who wo...
Lloyd's settles up.
Lloyd's has introduced four new settlement currencies - Australian dollars, Japanese yen, South Afri...
New v-p for US Re.
Larry Shatoff joins international (re)insurance intermediary and consultant US Re as senior vice-pre...
US reinsurer to head up GIO run-off.
Los Angeles-based reinsurer Paul Dassenko has joined Australian group GIO on a contract of between s...
Reinsurance online.
News, features, technical reports, conference details, job advertisements ... what single source giv...
G'day for Chiltington.
Service provider Chiltington has continued its creation of a worldwide network of offices with the p...
Everest relocates to Bermuda.
US reinsurer Everest Re is to form a new holding company in Bermuda. The current holding company,...
Disastrous Q3 in US.
US insurers face $2.1bn in catastrophe claims for the third quarter of the year. Hurricane Floyd ...
A full range of services.
(Re)insurers can now outsource everything except risk taking. Ivor Kiverstein charts the rise and rise of the service provider.
About the size of it.
In the last of our Y2K series, Rosalind Jones, Timothy Goodger and Tony Levitt consider how to quantify the amount of damage caused by a year 2000 problem.
A captivating island.
As the oldest captive domicile, Bermuda is well positioned to benefit from new forms of captives and new growth in the traditional market, argues Tony Dowding.
Thinking outside the triangle.
Adrian Leonard discovers how Bermuda's leading (re)insurers are managing to grow despite the confines of such a tiny island.
Scandinavian switch.
Bermudian finite reinsurer Scandinavian Re's executive vice-president and founding partner, Dave Bri...