News
RSA looks to float asset
UK insurer Royal and Sun Alliance could seek a partial float of its fund management arm. The business...
Barclays cool over Friends Provident
Barclays Bank has described as very speculative reports that it has approached mutual life assurer Fr...
AMP rolls UK life operations into one
Australian insurer AMP has anounced it is to bring its UK life operations into a single business unit...
Cologne Re says profits are 'unsatisfactory'
German reinsurer Cologne Re has said that its 1999 result was 'unsatisfactory' despite reporting a ne...
Subsidence not a laughing matter.
I read with some (but not total) amusement Brian Clancy's letter "That sinking feeling (again)" (PM,...
Cotesworth future uncertain.
The future of Lloyd's managing agency Cotesworth & Co remained uncertain this week, following Austra...
New legal panel.
Alexander Forbes Solicitors Claims Service has selected a panel of 13 solicitors to help its regiona...
Link joins Egg panel.
Link Insurance, the general insurance arm of Kiln at Lloyd's, is to join the panel of online banker ...
Indian investments.
Indian insurance firms will be allowed to invest 60% of their funds in top-rated corporate bonds and...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Harry Tomczyk has become corporate marketing manager at Ecclesiastical Insurance. Mr Tomczyk joined ...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has made several appointments to its central management team. John Blakemore, ...
Buyout gains Momentum.
The management team at Aon Consulting Financial Services has conducted a management buyout to form a...
Frankona renamed.
General Electric and Employers Reinsurance Corporation have decided to rename ERC Frankona as GE Fra...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A Thai insurance salesman asked two friends to chop off his left hand in an a...
Royal Liver deal secures Friends Provident staff.
Royal Liver Assurance is to buy Friends Provident's Personal Financial Services for an undisclosed a...
State Farm sparks tyre investigation.
Federal investigators looking into 62 deaths, allegedly caused by the failure of Bridgestone/Firesto...
Scott's agenda a commercial success?
The new director general of the Chartered Insurance Institute Sandy Scott, has chosen to keep his po...
Ergo buys into Italian sector.
German insurer Ergo Versicherungsgruppe intends to take over Italian life insurer Bayerische Vita in...
Equitable Life draws interest from 10 parties.
At least 10 companies have registered interest in troubled insurer Equitable Life. They have aske...
100 000 Drake policies transferred to new insurers
The provisional liquidators at Deloitte & Touche have transferred 100 000 Drake Insurance to new insu...
News on the wing.
Aeroinsure.com has launched an online newsletter to keep brokers up to date with developments in the...
Appointment at Marsh UK.
David Irvine is to be the new director of Marsh UK's Belfast office. He has worked in the insurance ...
PIC a pension rise.
Hong Kong's Principal Insurance Company is to expand its staff from 210 to around 300 to meet the su...
Medicare online.
International healthcare insurance provider Medicare has launched a website that gives quotes online...