News
Pru reports rise.
Prudential recorded a 54% increase in insurance and investment sales for the total group in 2001 of ...
BIBA to set up virtual network.
The British Insurance Brokers Association is considering setting up a virtual compliance network, th...
Lloyd's great reformer?
Last week, Lloyd's unveiled its long-awaited plans to reform the market's funding. Marcus Alcock looks behind the headlines to discover what the proposals in the Bain Report mean for the market.
Sherwood to cut jobs in revamp.
Software provider Sherwood International is to cut jobs in a restructuring move to be finalised by t...
Damage link up plans shelved.
Plans for the British Damage Management Association, which has just appointed Chem-Dry UK chief exec...
Winds of change.
Despite the increasing threat of hurricane activity predicted by weather specialists, Eric Alexander finds insurers are adopting a wait-and-see approach and first addressing the problems of years of low rates.
Hyundai talks with AIG collapse.
US insurance giant AIG has ended its interest in buying a controlling stake in the the troubled fina...
What the Papers Say.
METRO An insurance worker has been given the task of sifting through more than 10 tons of earth -...
Secrecy a problem says market analyst.
The creeping culture of secrecy at Lloyd's has been attacked by one of the market's leading analysts...
Appointment at Rossborough Healthcare International.
Rossborough Healthcare International, the Channel Islands' only specialist health insurance broker h...
Sherwood solution.
Sherwood International has furthered its relationship with New York Life International and secured a...
DL: in-house move.
Direct Line is looking to almost double its in-house adjusting and household claims inspecting team,...
Back to the floor approach gains benefits for all concerned.
Congratulations to Jacci Taylor at Groupama (Back to the floor, Post Magazine, 13 December, p47): wo...
Aegon sells stake.
Dutch insurer Aegon has agreed to sell its stake in Mexican Seguros Banamex Aegon and Afore Banamex ...
Conference to combat compensation culture.
Facing up to the Compensation Culture 9 April 2002 - The Insurance Hall The name of the game in...
Commentary - Entitlements of Part 36 offers.
The initial decisions on the clarification of Part 36 offers (under CPR 36.9) rejected the suggestio...
Riskclick to focus on Europe.
Riskclick, which provides software to the insurance and risk management industries, is to expand in ...
ING joint venture.
The Dutch financial services group ING hopes to set up a joint-venture with Australian bank ANZ to s...
View from the top - Patrick O'Sullivan
Patrick O'Sullivan chief executive, Zurich Financial Services - UK I was unsurprised, but still dis...
Industry deaths.
Former Lloyd's chairman Ian Findlay has died, aged 83. He was a Lloyd's broker, rising to the chairm...
Appointment at Primary Insurance Group.
Primary Insurance Group has recruited Steve Tighe to its underwriting team. He joins the company fro...
No hurry for pool.
The US Congress looks unlikely to set up a terrorism reinsurance pool in the near future, predicts t...
End of an era for Lloyd's.
Lloyd's radical plan to shake up its funding (see p13) should be supported by the market - of that t...
Ask the experts "view".
In a snapshot survey of Post Magazine's panel of 20 industry experts we asked them: Do you suppor...