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Senior management axed in Prudential review.
Prudential UK's senior management has been culled, following a substantial review of its business st...
Unknown costs hamper efforts.
It could be weeks before the total insurance costs of the terrorist attacks on the US are known, acc...
Train writ for CGNU.
National Express, the road and rail transport group, has issued a writ to CGNU for business interrup...
Liabilities capped?
United and American Airlines have appealed to the US government to cap impending liabilities, amid f...
Cornhill' underwriting academy.
Cornhill's underwriting academy has become the first in-house training centre to satisfy the Charter...
Euro to bring big opportunities.
Transport underwriters should view the introduction of the euro as an opportunity, rather than a thr...
Appointment at Watson Wyatt.
Manuel de la Rosa has joined Watson Wyatt in Madrid as head of its global insurance practice. He wil...
A question of responsibility - Laniyan v Barry May Haulage
In October 1997, the claimant, then aged 11, was involved in a road traffic accident in which his mot...
Appointment at Swiss Life UK.
Brian Hurd has been recruited by Swiss Life UK as director of its personal finance business unit. Pr...
Insurers should not refuse cover.
David Worsfold reports on Post Magazine's climate change conference held at the CII Insurance Hall.
South: high losses.
Windstorm losses in the south of England are potentially the highest of anywhere in Europe, accordin...
Taylor acquisition.
UK-listed Charles Taylor Consulting, which recently acquired Resolve International loss adjusters, h...
Tough lessons.
Lessons learnt from the huge claims generated by a catalogue of catastrophes during the 1990s mean last week's terrorist attacks in the US should not cripple insurers. All insured losses will be met, although the shock waves will be felt across the…
Axa looks set to rebrand PPP.
Axa's UK health subsidiary Private Patients Plan (PPP) is set to be re-branded, said Henri de Castri...
Appointment at Greystoke Legal Services.
Dr Chris Hiley has joined Greystoke Legal Services from a Midlands-based law firm, where he was a pa...
ATE insurers overturn ruling.
After-the-event insurers were yesterday expected to find out that they succeeded in overturning a ru...
Appointment at Munters.
Alasdair Phillips has become divisional director at property damage restoration specialists Munters....
WTC terrorist bomb attack.
We look back to Post Magazine on 8 April 1993, when we reported on the last attack on the World Trad...
Share investigation.
Axa, Munich Re and Swiss Re are to become the subject of an investigation into suspicious share move...
Appointment at Premier.
Consulting engineer Premier has taken on Andrew Gooud as its new managing director. He takes over th...
Business interruption bill to reach billions of dollars.
It now seems inevitable that the business interruption costs of last week's attacks on the US will d...
Human cost the industry must face.
While it remains our duty to report as accurately as possible on the mounting cost to the insurance ...
Appointment at Friends Provident.
Friends Provident has appointed Graham Harvey as director of marketing. Based in Salisbury, Mr Ha...
Minibus Plus MBO.
Minibus insurance provider Minibus Plus has been bought out by its management, following the purchas...