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AA in motor panel warning over changes
One of the UK's leading brokers has told insurers it will have to exclude them from its motor insura...
Travel insurance complaints rise again
'Cowboy' travel insurance providers are being driven out of the market following Financial Services ...
Stormy weather
Insurers and adjusters are counting the cost of the largest tropical storm to make landfall in the U...
Zurich delays SME model
Zurich has put back the implementation of the second stage of its small business model. The insurer...
Insure and Go add First Assist as assistance provider
Insure and Go has added First Assist as one of its travel insurance providers. The broker which uses...
Appointment at Universal Salvage
Universal Salvage is set to bid for more self-insured fleet business as part of a drive to boost its...
Illium and Great Lakes team up
Illium, the Lloyd's liability insurer, is expanding its capacity through a co-insurance arrangement ...
Rates crisis must be averted
Insurers must engage more with pharmaceutical firms to avert a rates crisis, it was claimed this wee...
Appointment at Connect Mi
Connect Mi has appointed Colin Towers as a director. Mr Towers has worked in several senior claims m...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical has appointed Steve Wood as general manager of its UK general insurance division. Mr ...
NU targets new SME market for growth
Norwich Union has followed other insurers, entering micro-business healthcare. The NU medical insura...
Towergate Partnership to be formally created
The Towergate Partnership will be formally created at the end of October, after it received approval...
$300m deal is reached in US
Equitas, the reinsurer created to run off the 1992 and prior year's liabilities of Lloyd's syndicate...
Appointment at Budget
Clive Fulcher has been appointed as senior manager, motor products at Budget. Mr Fulcher will be res...
Landmark deafness case gets go-ahead
QBE, Zurich and Norwich Union have received confirmation that a landmark test case for industrial de...
Hiscox estimates profit increase
Hiscox has estimated increases in profit for Syndicate 33's 2003 and 2004 years of account. It predi...
Appointment at Canopius
Stephen Manning is to join the board of Canopius Managing Agents as chief risk officer. Mr Manning w...
JLT to back Kinnect
Jardine Lloyd Thompson has become the fourth broker and 21st business to back Kinnect. Chief executi...
Appointment at Cox
Cox insurance has appointed former Wellington Underwriting chief executive Julian Avery, left, as it...
Appointment at James Chapman and Company
James Chapman and Company has made Mike Fitzgerald client relationship manager. Mr Fitzgerald joins ...
Appointment at The Clear Group
The Clear Group has appointed Paul Druckman as chairman. Mr Druckman was formerly president of the I...
Fitch affirms rating
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Lloyd's Insurer Financial Strength rating of 'A'. At the same time, Fitch...
Appointment at Universal Salvage
Universal Salvage has made Matthew Briggs chief operating officer. Mr Briggs will be responsible for...