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Ex-Capita boss joins DAS
Solicitor Kathryn Mortimer has joined the senior management team of DAS Legal Expenses as head of le...
Group starts programme
The Bollington Group has initiated a career bursary programme in conjunction with the Bryn Melyn Gro...
Appointment at The Countrywide Network
The Countrywide Network has appointed Tom Gabriel as an external account executive for the north of ...
Subsidiary rejects VC backing for a trade sale
Smart and Cook Consulting is expected to be sold by the end of the month to another broker rather th...
MIB issues MID demands
The Motor Insurers' Bureau has finally issued its demands for motor fleet policyholders to update th...
Appointment at The Cotswold Group
Rob Spiegelhalter has joined the senior management team of The Cotswold Group. He will be responsibl...
Appointment at Glemham Underwriting
Gordon Warnes and Simon Wright have joined Suffolk-based commercial underwriting agency Glemham Unde...
Appointment at Alexander Forbes
Alexander Forbes has appointed Peter Mitchell as head of its corporate risk solutions division in Ma...
PIAB boasts of major cost savings
The Irish Personal Injuries Assessment Board claims it is processing claims three times faster and f...
QBE syndicate reveals plans
The boss of QBE's new aviation syndicate at Lloyd's has promised to grow the operation into a sizabl...
QBE to open Swedish office in Scandinavian expansion
QBE is set to open a new branch office in Stockholm by early 2007. To be known as QBE Sverige, the o...
Law Society defends solicitors' role in PI
The Law Society has published proposals for lower-value personal injury claims, which it believes wi...
What the papers said this week
The Daily Telegraph Motor insurer Admiral was driven to an all-time high, aided further by a bull...
Appointment at Davis Group
Laura Foster has been promoted by Davis Group from her position as new business consultant to key ac...
Insurers and brokers avoid claims regulation
Insurers and intermediaries that handle third-party claims will not be regulated by the new claims w...
Bank giant in broker win
Halifax Bank of Scotland General Insurance has joined AA Insurance's household panel, signalling its...
Appointment at Aon
Clive James has been appointed group managing director of Aon Insurance Managers Global. Previously ...
Jardine Lloyd Thompson in £53.2m Alliant deal
Jardine Lloyd Thompson confirmed the sale of its US-based business to Alliant Insurance Services thi...
Appointment at BMS
Tony Provenzale and Traci Prochaska have joined BMS Vision Reinsurance Intermediaries. Mr Provenzale...
XL gets approval for Dublin reinsurance move
Bermudian (re)insurer XL Capital has received approval for XL Re Europe, its new Dublin-based European reinsurance platform.
Equity buys Ulster broker
Equity Insurance Group has acquired County Armagh broker Dawson Whyte (Lurgan).
Premium Credit hires trio
Premium Credit has made three new appointments to strengthen its nationwide sales management across the UK and Ireland.
Keelan Westall preferred broker for Edinburgh House Estates
Broker Keelan Westall has been made the sole supplier of property insurance to Edinburgh House Estates, across its UK property portfolio.
Converium deal gets attention of rating agencies
The main ratings agencies have weighed in with comments following Converium’s announcement that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its North American operations to National Indemnity Company, a Berkshire Hathaway company, for $295m.