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SAFR renamed
Bermudian group PartnerRe is to rename SAFR PartnerRe, its Paris-based subsidiary. SAFR PartnerRe w...
Hampton Re opens for business
A new life reinsurance company, Hampton Re, has been set up in Bermuda by Bill Walker, former preside...
Munich Re makes record profit
The Munich Re Group has announced provisional figures that show a 54.5% increase in its profit for 20...
Salvage Association talks over
The Salvage Association has found a buyer for its business, details of which will be released on Frid...
Loss adjusters query GISC cost.
Loss adjusters are in talks with the General Insurance Standards Council over whether they will have...
South-east merger.
South-east England-based brokers Lincoln Tilbury Stewart and Truman Insurance Brokers are set to mer...
Kidnap cover to rise.
Most kidnappings are now motivated purely by economics, according to a Foreign Policy Centre report ...
IFAs get Scot service.
Scottish Provident has launched a new online service for independent financial advisers at www.scotp...
Interesting compensation for loss of earnings.
Griffiths & Others v British Coal Corporation & Another Court of Appeal 27 February 2001.
Appointment at Property and Casualty Services.
Property & Casualty Services has recruited Sue Rumbold as personnel and training manager. She joins ...
CII cashes in on web.
Business transacted via the Chartered Insurance Institute's website has hit the £250,000 mark for th...
Smart takeover.
Leeds-based broker Smart and Cook has acquired GD Hewstone and Company, a broker operating out of Gr...
Appointment at Beale and Company.
Beale and Company has created two new partners. Lyndon Richards and Cathy Smith, both of whom qualif...
US motor in a spin.
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, has accused State Farm M...
Husband's false claim taints entire policy.
Direct Line Insurance v Khan and Another; Queen's Bench Division; 19 December 2000.
Motorcyclists' insurance claims.
Four out of five motorcyclists have claimed on their insurance in the last 12 months, with premium i...
CGNU slashes law firm panel.
CGNU, the second largest property investment company in the UK, has slashed its property investment ...
NFU boosts foot and mouth reserve.
Leading agricultural insurer NFU Mutual has boosted its reserve for claims arising from the foot and...
What is the Insurance Charities?
The Insurance Charities is the marketing name for the long-established Insurance Benevolent and Orph...
Zurich sell off to halt slump.
Zurich Financial Services, which last week recorded a 5.5% fall in net profits to $2.1bn (£1.36bn) a...
National campaign launched.
Chairman of income protection insurer Unum Lawrence Churchill has launched a national campaign to im...
Directors forego bonuses.
Four executive directors at Independent, Michael Bright, Phil Condon, Dennis Lomas and John Blakemor...
Appointment at CNA Insurance.
Angus Cameron has been appointed to the newly-created position of chief financial officer at CNA Eur...
... a City development broker.
Gareth Piggott is a development broker for City broker TL Clowes and is in the lucky position of being able to combine business with pleasure. He talks to Jane Bernstein about his role in the saddle as the company's face of motorcycle sport insurance and…