News
What the Papers Say.
Evening Standard Arsenal star Thierry Henry's £1.5m home has been ransacked by a burglar who esca...
Asbestos ruling will not go away.
Insurers should treat last week's landmark Court of Appeal ruling regarding mesothelioma claimants (...
Top of the PI charts.
Conveyancing work has attracted the highest number of solicitors' professional indemnity notificatio...
Appointment at Smart & Cook.
Smart & Cook, the insurance and financial services group, has made Jon Duke personnel manager, based...
Appointment at Rainbow International.
Rainbow International, disaster restoration specialists, has recruited Adrian Morton to head up its ...
Scotland calls for fast-track.
The Law Society of Scotland has called for a fast-track procedure for complaints against solicitors ...
Swiss Re set back in WTC dispute.
Swiss Re has suffered a setback in its dispute with World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein, as a...
Negligence rethink.
The Shadow Health Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has called for a fundamental rethink of the whole clinical...
Guardian forecast.
Disaster recovery specialist Guardian IT has posted poor financial forecasts for the second time thi...
Law Society vote.
A special general meeting of the Law Society has supported changes to members' voting rights that ma...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny can't help feeling that the ongoing saga of the Groupama sale is trundling on somewhat and the...
Brokers concern about FSA.
Brokers have voiced discontent about the transition of regulatory power from the self-regulating Gen...
The facts of life.
The big news this year for the life sector has been the continuing Equitable saga and latterly the introduction of new regulatory powers granted to the Financial Services Authority to supervise the UK's life insurers. Keith Sankey asks where does the…
Homer in start-up rumour.
Andy Homer, former chief executive of Axa Insurance in the UK, is understood to be set to return to ...
Fortis crash costs capped.
Fortis Group's exposure to the Selby rail disaster has been capped at £1.5m, despite estimates that ...
Axa confident of P&C business.
Axa Insurance remains confident of reaching a combined operating ratio for its property and casualty...
Malpractice: St Paul quits market.
US insurer St Paul is set to exit the UK medical malpractice market, with concomitant job losses, on...
EC decision on Lloyd's awaited.
The European Commission is expected to announce whether or not it will take the UK government to cou...
FSA's take on sales.
From the very start of the insurance industry's drive towards voluntary regulation, Post Magazine wa...
ReBriefs - Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings cleared of fraud
Bermuda-based (re)insurance broker Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings (now Atlantic Star Holdings) has be...
Pakistan to consider terror pool.
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is expected to submit a detailed proposal ...
Enron losses uncertain.
The collapse of Houston-based energy company Enron, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection...
E-man makes a case.
Alex Letts, chief executive of the on-line exchange RI3K, tells John Sanders why (re)insurers should introduce e-commerce into their day-to-day business.
ReBriefs - Court case against Merrion Re executives is adjourned.
The court case against three executives of Ireland's Merrion Re at Southwark Crown Court in the UK h...