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Team site rates well.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has teamed up with CNA Insurance to launch a new internet...
Water risk a clear one.
Darby v National Trust Court of Appeal 29 January 2001 The claimant, her husband and childre...
Matthew Thomas Gough (by his mother & litigation friend Karen Gough)
Queens Bench Division 2 February 2001 The claimant, an eight-year-old schoolboy, fell from a ba...
Queensway sale on.
Canadian insurer Queensway Financial Holdings is to sell off two US subsidiaries - North Pointe Fina...
Pye secures AUA.
Charrington's, the service company for Lloyd's Syndicate Pye 962, is to underwrite Allied Underwriti...
Appointment at Groupama Insurances.
Groupama Insurances has expanded its North-West regional underwriting team with the addition of Ann ...
Adviser sent to prison for £145,000 fraud.
An East Midlands-based financial adviser has been sentenced to two years and nine months in jail aft...
Marsh to sell up.
Broker Marsh has confirmed it is likely to sell the Marsh Centre on Aldgate, after building began on...
London signs up to LMP2001 reforms.
A majority of organisations in the London market has now signed up to proposals for modernising proc...
Appointment at Sorema.
Alexis Ruset, chairman and chief executive officer of French reinsurer Sorema since 1997, has left t...
Right time for a change?
It might be a little early for spring cleaning but that has not stopped reinsurers having a good cle...
News in brief - The United Nations.
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report last month that it ex...
Results in brief - Zurich Financial Services.
Zurich Financial Services said its earnings will drop slightly for 2000 due to a $300m reserve stren...
Results in brief - PartnerRe.
Bermudian reinsurer PartnerRe made a net profit of $142.3m in 2000, up from a $94.8m profit in 1999....
Insurers create pan-European group
A group of chairmen and chief executives from leading European insurers and banks has formed a group ...
Bavarian Re disappears.
Swiss Re is pushing through changes that will include a merger of its European non-life division in ...
Appointment at Employers Re.
Employers Re has made John Connelly (pictured) senior vice-president, strategic initiatives. Reporti...
Bermuda in clash with UK on reporting.
The Bermuda government has rejected half the proposals by the UK government to extend (re)insurance ...
News in brief - Copenhagen Re.
Copenhagen Re is closing its contact offices in Chile and Brazil and transferring their activities t...
News in brief - GeneralCologne Re, Vienna.
Standard & Poor's has affirmed its 'A' (strong) insurer financial strength and counterparty credit r...
Appointment at American Re.
American Re has strengthened its brokered business by appointing Richard McConnell (left) as chief f...
Results in brief - XL Capital.
XL Capital made an underwriting loss of $91.5m on its reinsurance business in 2000 on gross premiums...
On the move.
As the General Insurance Corporation's monopoly finally comes to an end, India's reinsurance market is undergoing fundamental restructuring. Adrian Leonard reports on a market in transition.
Munich Re streamlines structure.
Another of the big reinsurers, Munich Re, is to carry out a major restructuring of its central opera...