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Any proposed legislation to provide insurers assistance with terrorism cover could place a heavy bur...
Inreon into treaty.
Online reinsurance trading platform Inreon has broadened its capabilities into the treaty reinsuranc...
Sirius contract opens market.
Sirius Financial Systems has opened the door to bigger clients through a partnership deal with CMG ...
All Party Group leaders elected.
Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham, has been elected as the third deputy chairman of th...
OECD clamps down on harmful captives.
Eight captive domiciles remain on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's list ...
Brokers ready to control destiny.
Brokers and intermediaries are increasingly looking to their insurance providers and asking searchin...
Folgate deal in final stages.
Folgate Insurance's transformation into an underwriting agency is unlikely to take place before the ...
Is Charcol's site burning bright?
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Insurers must learn from mistakes, says O'Sullivan
Patrick O'Sullivan, chief executive of Zurich's general insurance business in the UK, has called for ...
United States Attorney's Office ends Lloyd's investigation
Lloyd's has been informed by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New Yor...
Ins-sure to lay off 80
Ins-sure, the company formed from the merger of the Lloyd's Policy Signing Office and the London Proc...
Folgate joins Abbey National's online panel
Folgate Insurance has joined Abbey National's new buildings and contents insurance 'quote and buy' se...
Lord Hunt to call for extension of Pool Re
The government should extend its terrorist insurance cover, Lord Hunt of Wirral, law firm Beachcroft ...
Axis secures $1.6bn capital
Axis Specialty, the new reinsurer backed by broker Marsh, has secured over $1.6bn of capital in a pri...
IPC plans share offer
IPC Holdings, parent of Bermudian property catastrophe reinsurer IPC Re, is planning a share offering...
White Mountain launches Montpelier Re
White Mountain's new reinsurance venture has been named Montpelier Re and has raised its target capit...
Inreon moves into treaty market
Online reinsurance trading platform Inreon has broadened its capabilities into the treaty reinsuranc...
Converium launches IPO
Converium has announced the start of its initial public offering for up to 100% of the company. Con...
Cox board director quits
Richard Pexton, board director and underwriting director of Cox Commercial Division, has quit the com...
Helphire interims show steady upturn
Credit hire firm Helphire has recorded a net loss of £1.1m for the six months to the end of Septembe...
Large rise in Scor's third quarter premiums
The largest French reinsurer, Scor, increased premium income in all sectors in the third quarter 2001...
Trenwick restructures UK operations
Trenwick International's property and casualty reinsurance treaty portfolio is to be underwritten at ...
Eureko blames "global economic slowdown" as profits fall
Pan-european insurer Eureko today announced a drop in income and profits for the nine months up to 30...
Andy Homer quits Axa
Andy Homer has quit as chief executive of Axa Insurance to pursue other interests. Peter Hubbard, pr...