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Appointment at CS Healthcare.
David Royle has become the new chief executive of CS Healthcare, the provider of healthcare solution...
GISC: in response to critics.
The letters from Mr Harris (PM, 11/25 October) accuse the General Insurance Standards Council of mis...
GAB down under.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins Aviation is set to grow its business in Australasia after setting up an oper...
Giles gears up for expansion.
Giles Insurance Brokers has set aside £7.5m to open up to 12 branches over the next five years, doub...
Government backs terrorist cover by definition.
The government reaffirmed its commitment to providing retrocessional cover for terrorist acts, in res...
Swiss Life IFA site.
Swiss Life has teamed up with IFA Promotion and launched a new online directory of independent finan...
NU does its bit on start-up safety site.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Axa prepared to contest World Cup legal action.
French insurer Axa plans to contest any legal action bought against it by football's world governing...
Excess is too much for replacement companies.
The article on the Association of British Insurers' good practice guide to encourage more housing as...
Direct Action.
Recommendations released by the Law Commission could bring much needed clarity and increased certainty to a pillar of insurance law - the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930. Gavin Reese and James Stockwell explain.
South Korea motor shake-up.
Kyobo Life looks set to shake up the South Korean motor insurance market, after becoming the first l...
Insurers duped by "fad".
Fraud detection by telephone voice stress analysis has been branded "foolhardy" by a senior academic...
As flood season starts again self-defence is best solution.
Yet again, we are all in for a deluge of flood claims which, one assumes, has adjusters rushed off t...
Lloyd's calls in SFO to investigate online insurer
Lloyd's has become embroiled in a Serious Fraud Office Investigation after an insurance intermediary ...
End of the road?
A new hazard waste directive coming into force on 1 January next year, will have serious implications for end-of-life vehicles and as a result insurers. Ian Gaskin explains how the industry can avoid falling foul of the legislation.
Taylor to retire.
Anthony Taylor, deputy chairman of Wellington Underwriting, is to retire as a director at the end of...
Age-old dilemma.
Last week, the government unveiled plans to regulate sales of long-term care insurance, but this is just one part of the jigsaw, as Andrew Harwood reports.
United we stand?
As the economy leans towards recession, many wait to see whether the expected downturn will topple the insurance industry and the frenzy of merger and acquisition activity that has characterised it recently. Edward Murray investigates.
Brokasure unveiled.
Rebus this week unveiled its new Brokasure Enterprise technology platform for medium to large broker...
QBE shake-up as Lothian quits.
Australian insurer QBE's European division has lost another big hitter just a year after the surpris...
Troika eyes insurer.
Russian investment bank Troika Dialog has not yet decided whether to take part in the forth-coming s...
Ace's not so high.
Bermuda-based Ace's third quarter results were dragged down by $558.8m (£384.5m) after tax, as a res...
Relationships suffer as reinsurers become more clinical
Reinsurers are reducing their emphasis on long-standing client relationships and adopting a more clin...
Moody's: Lloyd's syndicates no longer provide "adequate" security
Moody's has downgraded five Lloyd's syndicates amid what it described as "growing concerns over the a...