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Specialty boosts Berkley
Specialty business helped WR Berkley, the US (re)insurance group, increase its net written premiums b...
Trenwick gets rating review
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has put its ratings of Trenwick Group on CreditWatch with negative implicatio...
Appointment at The St Paul.
The St Paul at Lloyd's has promoted Robert Philpot to the post of marine claims adjuster. He has ove...
First half profits up at Prudential
Prudential said that strong sales in the UK and Asia have helped it achieve a 16% increase in profits...
Elephantastic site scores 10 out of 10.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Andrea Arundell has been appointed to the newly-created role of human resources manager at Devitt In...
NU quits Gun Trade scheme.
Sporting Insurance Services, the specialist gun trade insurance subsidiary of broker Stuart Alexande...
Market improvement.
There will be continued consolidation of syndicates at Lloyd's and corporate capital vehicles will i...
Russian for cover.
The Russian insurance market will become increasingly attractive to European insurers, said rating a...
MP attacks ABI.
Barry Gardiner MP has heavily criticised the Association of British Insurers for failing to publicly ...
Towergate cuts Dickinson's staff.
Towergate has confirmed it has cut two thirds of Midlands-based broker Dickinson's staff, following ...
Thousands are left uninsured.
Car owners and holidaymakers alike are facing the prospect of no insurance cover this week in two ca...
NHS: Envision deal.
The NHS Pensions Agency has awarded Envision, a consortium of technology companies Paymaster 1836 an...
Indie high net worth team goes to Zurich
Zurich Retail Financial Services has acquired a new high net worth team from Independent Insurance. ...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Early deaths through smoking save the Czech government tens of millions of po...
IFAs web service.
Technology supplier to the IFA market Synaptic Systems is to launch a web building service for indep...
NIG opens more offices in commercial drive.
NIG has announced it will open a further four or five commercial offices in the next six to nine mon...
US broker access.
Lloyd's announced that the first ever independent US brokers have been granted access to the London-...
Appointment at Chubb Europe.
Jamie Keaney has been appointed to the newly-created position of fine art underwriting manager for E...
Exchange FS wins e-contract for Bank of Ireland.
E-commerce specialist Exchange FS has won a £2m contract to implement a browser-based, point-of-sale...
CGNU 10-year deal.
CGNU has entered into a 10-year bancassurance partnership with DBS Group Holdings of Singapore. As p...
State of play.
Insurer stability is upmost in brokers' minds - especially as Lloyd's opens its door to all-comers. Kevin Willis explains the rationale behind Standard & Poor's new Lloyd's Syndicate Performance Measures.
Misys rebrands insurance arm.
UK-based Misys has rebranded its insurance arm as the Financial Services Division. It made the annou...
Unique potential.
Business solutions provider Viant has warned insurers they may "miss the boat altogether" if they fa...