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Tooth picks.
Brit, which sponsored the Super Series Squash Finals in the Square Mile this week, has entered the m...
Pooling resources
The recent floods across Europe have had significant implications for the damage management industry in the UK. Richard Adams examines this business; the availability of skilled workers, the quality of work, and the criticisms it faces.
Jobs to go as Inreon fails.
The London-based reinsurance trading platform Inreon is to be put in run-off after failing to secure...
Chaucer says all new shares have been sold.
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer last week said all the new shares offered earlier this year as part of its b...
Confidential talks tackle costs chaos
The current costs debacle besetting the UK's civil justice system could be set to come to an end, fol...
Churchill deal.
Insurer Churchill has signed up FileNet, as part of a multi-million-pound deal, in an effort to impr...
RSA goes solo on terrorism.
Royal & Sun Alliance's technical underwriting director Colin Short has expressed surprise at the fac...
SMEs: new e-risk launch
Small to medium-sized enterprises have been "priced out of the market" when it comes to insuring the...
Appointment at Deacon Insurance.
Specialist property intermediary Deacon Insurance Services has appointed Julie Purkiss, formerly ope...
ABI report falls short on panels
Eight months after its original release date, the Association of British Insurers' document on compo...
Don't tar all solicitors with the same brush.
Although it may be unfashionable during the continuation of the so-called costs war, I write to repo...
PM scoops sponsor's shield.
The afternoon at Villa Park kicked off with the Sponsor's Challenge Shield this year played as a thr...
Appointment at Marsh.
Marsh Inc has made Jeremy Cooke chief executive of the firm's wholesale broking and underwriting man...
Pulling into the bus and coach depot
After the publication of the first risk management survey of the UK bus and coach industry, Clive Moffatt studies the results and finds that the compensation culture is taking its toll, leading to calls for government intervention.
Benfield returns to profit
Reinsurance broking giant Benfield today reported that turnover increased by 31.5% to £284.5m (2001: ...
ERC has a life change
GE Employers Re Corp. (ERC) is merging the UK and Middle East operations of its life and health busin...
Hartford Group gets downgrade after Q1 loss
Ratings agency Moody's has downgraded the debt rating of the Hartford Financial Services Group, after...
Platinum raises premium prediction
Bermudian reinsurer Platinum Underwriters Holdings predicted that it would write net premiums of $1.1...
ERC shakes up P&C business
GE Employers Re Corp. (ERC) is moving Ken Brandt from San Francisco to Munich to run a new operation ...
Swiss Re looks into Tokyo quake predictions
Swiss Re is sponsoring a new scientific study on the possibility of a major earthquake hitting the de...
Swiss Re looks into Tokyo quake predictions
Swiss Re is sponsoring a new scientific study on the possibility of a major earthquake hitting the de...
Credit Suisse Group reports first-quarter income is up
Credit Suisse Group, troubled parent of Churchill Insurance in the UK, has reported first-quarter n...
Appointment at Sirius.
Sirius Financial Systems has appointed Noel Burger as an additional Swift sales consultant within th...
Book your table now for BIA 2003.
Now is the time to grab some of the best seats in the house for the 2003 British Insurance Awards pr...