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Generali's profits rise
Europe's third largest insurer, Generali, has reported a 40% increase in net profit for last year, ex...
Claims Direct hikes premium
No win no fee claims management company Claims Direct has finally launched its new ring-fenced insura...
Credit hire association publishes prospectus
The prospectus for the newly formed Accident Management Association has now been published explaining...
Premium growth for US P&C reinsurers
US property casualty reinsurers wrote $24.9bn of net premiums last year, up from $21.2bn in 1999, acc...
Zurich faces major overhaul and plans widespread sell off
Zurich Financial Services is to embark on a major cost cutting programme which will see it spin off t...
Independent put on credit watch
Independent Insurance has been placed on Credit Watch by controversial ratings agency Standard & Poor...
PartnerRe shakes up US treaty underwriting
Bermuda-based PartnerRe has reorganised its US treaty underwriting operations into five teams concent...
Toyota buys controlling stake in Aioi.
Japan's biggest automaker Toyota last week secured a minority controlling stake in the soon-to-be-fo...
Event scripts.
Copies of presentations from the conference, which incl-ude slides and several full scripts, can be ...
Travel cover on site.
Screentrade, the online broker product from Misys Interactive Trading, has gone live with travel ins...
Insurers escape flood bill.
The Association of British Insurers has backed the latest planning guidance from the Department of E...
Trust me, I'm a doctor.
Major scandals have left the medical profession reeling. And with patients increasingly prepared to sue, specialist professional indemnity cover has come under the spotlight. Lynda Hardy-Maskell reports.
HHH acquisitions.
Hill House Hammond has acquired the personal lines and commercial business of Plymouth-based firm Cr...
Insurers "only tinkering at edges".
The way insurers use technology is changing, but probably not fast enough, said Sue Hall, director o...
Lloyd's reforms to follow Election.
Widespread reforms to the governance of Lloyd's will take place after the General Election, under pr...
Professional conduct.
Alexander Forbes has had a busy few months of predatory growth. Trevor Moss, director, Alexander Forbes Professions fills Marcus Alcock in on the thinking behind the company's strategy, and warns that the shopping spree is far from over.
AA team home in.
Towergate has teamed up with AA Insurance Services to provide non-standard household insurance to AA...
Miller Fisher denies sale rings changes.
Miller Fisher has denied that the sale of its insurance arm Homecare, signals the start of a sell-of...
Chaucer: top Marque.
Chaucer Insurance has recruited another two ex-Sabre employees to its new non-standard motor team. S...
Industry must stop and listen.
Stop, look and listen. Three simple words. But apparently not simple enough for the insurance indust...
Three join network.
Acoat Bodyshop Services has added three new members to its network: LA Coachways of Weybridge in Sur...
Illegal stowaway cover launched.
Manchester-based broker JL Manson and Partners has devised a policy designed to protect internationa...
CGNU goes Hungary.
UK insurance giant CGNU has acquired Hungarian high net worth life insurer Mebit from Dutch banking ...
No Hope for Markel.
Markel Syndicate Management last week announced that David Hope is no longer the active underwriter ...