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Adjuster unveils new venture
Loss adjuster Agrical has unveiled a joint venture with Mark Shelton, a specialist investigative acc...
Appointment at Crawford and Company
Alison McKinna has been recruited by Crawford and Company to fill the newly created role of customer...
Appointment at GAB Robins
Colin Mason, UK finance director, and Derek Coles, formerly managing director, have become the lates...
Broker Network acquisition
Broker Network has acquired commercial insurance broker Adam and Gaskell. The broker was formed in 1...
QBE targets SMEs with relaunch
QBE is targeting mid-market regional businesses with the relaunch of its employers' liability policy...
Firm backed to address £300m problem
A Midlands-based supplier has raised £250,000 in private equity funding to develop an automatic main...
Appointment at Comite Europeen des Assurances
Brussels-based industry body Comite Europeen des Assurances has implemented a new management structu...
Events
12 May - Insurance Institute of London Annual Ball, Grosvenor House, London. Tel: 020 7600 1343, www...
Fortis hails pilot first
Fortis this week became the first insurer to publicly lend its support to blind-bidding dispute reso...
Helphire signs contract
Helphire has signed what it described as "a significant contract" for the provision of accident mana...
Appointment at Barlow Lyde and Gilbert
Five associates will be joining the partnership of Barlow Lyde and Gilbert. They include Peter Allen...
Royal and Sun Alliance reports first-quarter results
Royal and Sun Alliance will report its first-quarter results today, with analysts expecting pre-tax ...
Penny Black's insurance week
Insure and Go don't have the most conventional of offices, Penny found when she visited the travel i...
Appointment at Guardian Holdings
Andy Jones has been made corporate services director for Guardian Holdings' European businesses, Lin...
Appointment at Howden
Howden has made Neil Bullivant operations manager. Mr Bullivant joins from Aon, where he was operati...
Beckett's plans for broker network
Former Country Mutual Insurance Brokers non-executive chairman Bob Beckett's plan to launch a broker...
Appointment at Finsure
Finsure, the premium finance subsidiary of NIG and part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, has app...
Norwich Union signs contract with Trafficmaster
Norwich Union has signed a contract with Trafficmaster for the provision of a further 35,000 telemat...
Appointment at Cunningham Lindsey
Ian Mowforth has joined Cunningham Lindsey UK's complex liability team as an injury specialist. He w...
Allianz walks away from legal action
Allianz Cornhill has walked away from the battle to recover referral fees paid to The Accident Group...
What the papers said this week
The Scotsman A Dutch insurer is offering employers in the country the chance to insure themselves a...
Appointment at Liverpool Victoria
Liverpool Victoria has announced the appointment of Mike Rogers as its new group chief executive. He...
RSA CEO speeds up restructure
Royal and Sun Alliance's UK chief executive, Bridget McIntyre, has stamped her authority on the insu...
Lords ruling hailed for smoothing out Fairchild
Last week's House of Lords' judgement in the Barker v Corus case has polarised opinion between claim...