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Builder sets up financial services company
House builder Westbury has launched a new financial services company, Incresco, which will provide ge...
Stockton's Rhoads joins Overseas Partners
Overseas Partners (OPL)is to acquire a team of finite risk underwriters from fellow Bermudian reinsur...
Positive outlook for credit insurance
Credit insurance is one of the few areas of profit and growth in European property and casualty (re)i...
PIA takes action.
The Personal Investment Authority has taken disciplinary action against Neville Carpenter & Associat...
Selling out over pensions?
Fifteen years ago, with the pensions misselling debacle just around the corner, the insurance indust...
MCS ties knot with Windsor.
Software provider MCS has teamed up with Windsor Insurance Brokers to establish a new broker network...
Skilled workers left on the shelf.
The comment in your last issue No longer any place for skilled workers? (Post Magazine, 9 November, ...
New player may be a no win, no fee relief.
The row between insurers and no win, no fee claims companies is set to spill into the courts, follow...
Partners in the mix.
Solicitors voted last week to speed up steps to allow mixed disciplinary partnerships. Detailed plan...
Boyce raises ALARM.
Sheila Boyce, a manager with Aon's Public Sector Consulting Group, has been appointed as chief execu...
Marlborough push for Europe.
UK e-commerce specialist Marlborough Stirling is set for a major European push after securing a mult...
ARB goes south.
Dublin-based underwriting agency ARB has opened a UK office in Southampton with the possibility of m...
Aon gets horsey.
Aon is to sponsor international three day event rider Rodney Powell (above) in a three-year deal. Th...
Pay back time?
Three million homeowners have endowment policies which will fail to repay their mortgage, according ...
Insurers suffer flood damage.
The UK's two largest general insurers CGNU and Royal & Sun Alliance have said they will take hits of...
Misys ditches Screentrade for new formula
Misys is to axe its online insurance brand, Screentrade, and replace it with a new internet identity,...
Cornhill buys Bankers' equine business
Cornhill Insurance is to acquire the Bankers Equine Direct business of the Bankers Insurance Group. T...
Ruling means bigger reserves.
Insurers will have to increase the amount of money they keep in reserve for future claims, following...
No win, no fee initiative.
A new no win, no fee claims company was launched this week, which also offers rehabilitation service...
Chaucer upgrades.
Chaucer Insurance has upgraded the guarantee status of its commercial vehicle product, Chaucer Trade...
Halifax looks at in-house move.
The largest arranger of household insurance services The Halifax Bank, this week refused to rule out...
GAB swoops on Miller team.
Adjuster GAB Robins has boosted its liability division with the appointment of six former Miller Pyc...
Kingsbridge: FA link.
Financial adviser Kingsbridge is to acquire Kingweb, a subsidiary of the League Managers Association...
New golden policy.
Sidcup-based Markerstudy has launched Eurogold, a policy add-on to standard motor insurance. Eurogol...