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Lighthouse offers for Equitable staff
Listed independent financial adviser the Lighthouse Group is in talks with members of Equitable Life'...
Singer & Friedlander joins compensation culture
Premium finance provider, Singer & Friedlander Insurance Finance is to provide a funding provision fo...
Government to kick start cowboy scheme
The government's plan to clamp down on so-called cowboy builders by setting up a quality mark scheme ...
Taking the risk out of hospitality
Corporate hospitality insurer Insurex Expo-Sure has responded to the recent extreme weather condition...
Willis gets Columbia drug
Willis has taken a controlling interest in SUMA Corredores de Seguros, Colombia's second largest insu...
GISC plan to increase transparency
The General Insurance Standards Council's plan to increase the transparency and representation on its...
Liverpool Vic snaps up Permanent
Equitable Life has sealed a £150m deal to sell Permanent Insurance to Liverpool Victoria. Permanent...
Fewer storms to hit more.
The Atlantic cyclone season in 2001 will be 10% quieter than average although 5-10% more than averag...
Is the price right?
Lloyd's capacity auctions have successfully allocated almost $9m of syndicate capacity in their first five years, but why do prices remain so low? Robert C.B. Miller investigates.
Lloyd's restructure.
Following a restructuring of Lloyd's business units, Julian James (pictured) has been promoted from ...
Singapore Re shares split.
The Singaporean authorities have approved a split of the shares of Singapore Re into five parts to b...
Enhance Re to be sold.
New York-based financial guaranty reinsurer Enhance Re is to be sold to the Radian Group, the Philad...
Qantas orders 'superjumbo'.
Airbus looks certain to build its huge A3XX "superjumbo" (artist's impression above with mock-up) fo...
Duguid leaves Lloyd's for GAUM integration role.
Andrew Duguid, Lloyd's director of development, is to join Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers (G...
Occurring again.
The meaning of the word 'occurrence' was debated once again when the Court of Appeal ruled in Mann v Lexington. John Butler reports.
First female chair.
Deirdre Littlefield, senior vice-president of divisional special lines at Swiss Re, has become the f...
Map Underwriting opens for business.
Map Underwriting, the new Lloyd's syndicate of former Amlin underwriter David Shipley, has opened fo...
Rogue rulings in UK
Key judgements in the UK in 2000 will affect many aspects of (re)insurance business - from placing to commutation. Dorothy Cory-Wright of law firm DJ Freeman reviews the year, including some maverick rulings.
ReMetrics recruit.
Benfield Greig has recruited Jean-Paul Conoscente to Greig ReMetrics, its catastrophe risk, financia...
Cathedral Capital's reinsurance syndicate 2010.
Cathedral Capital's reinsurance syndicate 2010 began underwriting at Lloyd's last month. Elvin Patri...
Zurich Re opens office in Paris.
Zurich Re (Cologne) has opened an office in Paris, Zurich Re France, offering life, health and accid...
Life looks up for Lloyd's.
The Lloyd's market is suffering as much as the rest of the (re)insurance world at the moment, but th...
Swiss Re sells risk business.
Swiss Re is to sell Bermuda-based International Risk Management Group (IRMG). IRMG's captive mana...
Tough talk.
GE Frankona Re intends to take a tougher approach to ensure long-term viability, Bob Dellinger (far left) and Bernhard Fink tell Eric Alexander.