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Pierce heads GAB support team.
GAB Robins has established a new intermediary support team, headed up by its first national account d...
Loss adjusters instructed following Ealing bomb.
A raft of loss adjusters have been instructed, following the explosion of a suspected terrorist car b...
Appointment at Singer & Friedlander Insurance Finance.
Insurance premium finance specialist Singer & Friedlander Insurance Finance has appointed Brian Farr...
Indescribably indescribable.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Call for trustmark.
The American Bar Association's task force investigating online dispute resolution is understood to h...
Barton gives it Welly.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson chairman John Barton has joined Wellington Underwriting as a non-executive di...
GEH income jumps.
Singapore-based Great Eastern Holdings reported an almost 27% rise in net profit for the first half ...
Not legally binding.
Last week, the High Court found that Lloyd's syndicate Marlborough Syndicate 1242 never became a par...
BW sets standards.
Beachcroft Wansborough acted on behalf of the Association of British Insurers and the Pensions and I...
RSA life on target.
Royal & Sun Alliance has completed the first stage of its review of the UK life insurance operations...
Tension grows over pot plants.
UK insurers are still undecided about how they would handle the possibility of cover for marijuana, ...
NU seeks legal appeal on ATE.
Norwich Union has confirmed that, following legal advice, it is considering seeking leave to appeal ...
Argos leads moves to GISC.
A significant number of high-street retail brands are poised to join the General Insurance Standards...
Western firm gets Nepal licence.
AIG subsidiary American Life is set to become the first western insurer to operate in Nepal, after r...
Holman set to close Essex office.
Holman Insurance Brokers, the independent Lloyd's wholesaler, is to close its office in Wickford, Es...
CSC supplies Icons.
CSC is to supply ChoiceQuote Insurance services with its Icons internet solution to enable the insur...
Breaking the banks.
Banks have been using the internet to sell insurance, while insurers and brokers have seemed to lag behind. But they are now beginning to launch an offensive, with new net offerings that aim to provide a wider choice and better service, and ultimately…
Samsung profits up.
Korean insurance giant Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance posted a net profit of won 71.2bn (£38.5m) in...
Study to help slash tree costs.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Lindsey has teamed up with Zurich Municipal to help slash the cost of claim...
Syndicate shuffle.
Andreas Loucaides, active underwriter of Markel Syndicate 702, parted company with Markel Internatio...
Asbestos compensation delay: old dogs cannot be taught new tricks
The insurance industry is still being bombarded by negative comment with regard to its reaction, or l...
Tackling challenges head-on.
Veronica Cowan met Caroline Gill, the Irish Insurance Ombudsman, and found out how her direct approach to complainants' problems has already made her indispensable in the role.
CNA Reinsurance Co on the market.
US reinsurer CNA Re has put its substantial London subsidiary, CNA Reinsurance Co, up for sale, expo...
Hill Dickinson in London push.
Law firm Hill Dickinson plans to make a greater push for public sector liability work, as part of a ...