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Lloyd's Members only.
Lloyd's has made sweeping changes to the way it deals with brokers, with centralised regulation being replaced with an accreditation programme. Rachel Gordon asks whether this has opened doors for brokers or is driving business away.
Competition rules.
The Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal has announced it will rule on the Institute of Insurance ...
Ward Evans to provide customer protection.
Leeds-based broker Ward Evans is to provide protection for its policyholders, in the event of a coll...
Mexican wave.
Royal & Sun Alliance has agreed to acquire Mexico's 13th largest insurer Seguros BBV Probursa, a sub...
NU in Cable & Wireless deal.
The telecommunications group Cable & Wireless has signed a memorandum of understanding over a £350m ...
Legal firms agree policyholders' deal.
Law firms Davies Arnold Cooper, Berrymans Lace Mawer and Davies Lavery have concluded a deal with In...
IPC Re earnings up
IPC Re, the Bermudian property catastrophe reinsurer, has reported operating income of $20.2m for the...
Arig reduces losses
Bahrain-based Arig Group has reported losses of $3.2m for the first half of the year, down from net l...
Indie policyholders get new website
The Policyholders Protection Board today announced it has set up a temporary website in response to w...
Reg Brown joins Kiln board
Former Lloyd's underwriter and immediate past president of the Chartered Insurance Institute Reg Brow...
CNA Re London downgraded
Rating agency AM Best has lowered its rating of CNA Re's London subsidiary, raising doubts about the ...
Everest Re income boost
Bermuda-based Everest Re Group saw its earnings increase by almost a quarter in the second quarter of...
St Paul Re hit by cats
St Paul Re was hit by $30m of catastrophe losses in the second quarter of this year, $20m of which we...
CNA Re rating lowered
Rating agency AM Best has lowered its rating of CNA Re's London subsidiary. AM Best said it had low...
Insurers face new year crisis claims salvage company
Insurers face a crisis on the 1 January 2002, when the EC's End of Life Vehicle Directive will classi...
Date set for ruling on IIB challenge to GISC
The Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal will rule on the Institute of Insurance Brokers' challenge...
Indie collapse costs Baldwins £1m
Baldwins Industrial Services has become the latest company to announce the failure of Independent Ins...
RenRe income up 13%
Bermudian property catastrophe reinsurer RenaissanceRe has reported a 13% increase in its operating i...
Marlborough goes to court in travel insurance dispute
Lloyd's insurer Marlborough is going to the High Court today in a bid to determine how many travel i...
Lloyd's grants access to first independent US brokers
Lloyd's today announced that the first ever independent US brokers have been granted access to the Lo...
Equitas fears confirmed
Concerns over the level of asbestos claims at Equitas, the company set up by Lloyd's to reinsure and ...
Stress claim falls at forseeability hurdle
An office manager who brought a claim against her employees for work-related stress has had her case ...
Government shakes up employment tribunals
New proposals to radically reform employment tribunals were announced today by Employment Relations M...
Equitas adds £1.7bn ($2.4bn) to asbestos reserves
Equitas, which Lloyd's set up to reinsure and run off its syndicates' liabilities for 1992 and earlie...