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RSA engineers new businesses
Royal & Sun Alliance is to create two stand alone engineering inspection and consultancy businesses t...
St Paul lays off 73 staff
Seventy three jobs at St Paul owned Unionamerica Insurance Company are set to go following its parent...
Crowe to close down two syndicates
Crowe Syndicate Management plans to close two syndicates following a strategic review for the 2001 ye...
St Paul looks to expand legal offering
St Paul International has recruited Karen Bain as underwriting manager from Groupama to help develop ...
Towergate snaps up Premia Centre
Medical Insurance Agency, the leading insurance broker and financial intermediary to medical and dent...
Standard Life revamps healthcare
Standard Life Healthcare is revamping its healthcare offerings so that premiums will reflect hospital...
What next for Scottish Life?
Mutual insurer Scottish Life has been left stranded following the withdrawal of a potential bid for t...
Argent doubles network with Midlands acquisition
Argent Insurance, part of Cox Insurance Retail Division, has completed its acquistion of Midland's ba...
RSA property unit on the move
Royal and Sun Alliance is moving its 80-strong property investors unit out of its offices in Shaftesb...
Oops, says CGNU
Insurer CGNU confirmed yesterday that it had made a multi-million pound miscalculation in the value o...
Insurers hold their nerve
Motor insurers are holding their nerve on premium increases with insurance renewals in 2000 holding a...
Appointment at TC Group.
Phillip Ketteringham has joined TC Group, a business and technology consultancy for financial servic...
New syndicate for DP Mann.
Lloyd's insurer DP Mann is looking to set up a second syndicate to underwrite aviation business afte...
P&I differences a matter of style.
Stuart Todd, underwriter at British Marine Managers, examined the difference between traditional Pro...
Syndicate 962 aims high.
Creechurch Underwriting's Lloyd's syndicate 962 is aiming for expansion into new lines of business, ...
What's it worth?
John Ball, president of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters has been reported in PM as saying ...
Changes up north.
Insurer Northwestern Mutual is to rebrand itself as part of a $25m (£16m) marketing campaign as a ma...
Let's get together.
A new improved relationship is being built between independent financial advisers and insurers. In the future, IFAs could at last see improved products, as well as improved support from their providers. David Fanning gets the lowdown.
Aegon UK acquires HS Administration Services.
Aegon UK has acquired HS Administration Services, for an undisclosed sum. Chester-based HS Administr...
Industry too slow to adapt.
Delivering the keynote speech the chairman of Aon, Dennis Mahoney, bemoaned the dire state of the ma...
NU set to monitor IFAs' satisfaction.
Norwich Union hopes to raise the profile of its fledgling retail investment arm by becoming one of t...
An injection of life for UBS AG.
Swiss banking group UBS AG is setting up its own life insurance firm which will first target its hom...
Adjusting to a loss.
Loss adjuster Miller Pycraft was unavailable to comment on the departure of Specialist Investigation...
Ace to pull plug on 1171.
Bermuda-based insurer Ace has pulled the plug on life syndicate 1171. It follows an unsuccessful att...