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Appointment at MMA Insurance.
Broker-only insurer MMA Insurance has taken on Martin Smith in the newly-created position of complia...
RSA aims for top position.
Royal & Sun Alliance's new UK chief executive Duncan Boyle intends to make the company in country's ...
Optimum closes for new business.
Canadian insurer Optimum General is to cease writing new insurance business in the Atlantic region a...
Claims Direct seeks ATE insurer panel.
Personal injury intermediary Claims Direct has confirmed it is looking for a second and possibly thir...
ABI publishes research on stakeholder pensions.
Mary Francis, director general of the Association of British Insurers, this week said stakeholder pe...
RSA sets its sights on twenty brokers by 2005.
Royal & Sun Alliance could take stakes in up to eight independent brokers by the end of the year, an...
Relief for liability insurers as McDonald's wins hot tea court case.
Liability insurers breathed a sigh of relief last week, when fast food giant McDonald's won a High C...
Call for action.
The surge in personal lines fraud is proving to be a huge drain on insurers' coffers but there are a myriad of measures that companies can take to combat this crime wave - and not before time. Andrew Cox reports.
GEK asks EU to strike down a law in Germany.
One of Germany's largest state-backed health insurance companies, GEK, has asked the European Union ...
Commentary.
Appeal swung by harassment On 26 February 2002, the Court of Appeal heard four defendant appeals in ...
Insurers dispute cost of Euro integration.
The UK's two largest insurers have disputed figures produced this week by management consultants on ...
Yarl's Wood closes due to lack of cover.
More selective underwriting in the current market has been cited as a reason for the closure of the ...
Triumph factory will be restored to its original state.
Motorcycle manufacture Triumph has already begun remedial work to the section of an assembly line at...
Post footie competition kicks off.
Post Magazine's fifth charity football competition kicks off today (Thursday), with the first round ...
Request from Brit Insurance Holdings.
Lloyd's insurer Brit Insurance Holdings has requested that rating agency Standard & Poor's withdraws...
Churchill opens broker division.
David Hiddleston, the executive director heading up Churchill Insurance's new broker division, plans ...
Appointment at Cornhill Schemes.
Cornhill Schemes has recruited Steven Burrell as business manager, sales and marketing. In his new r...
Lloyd's has confirmed that it has completed the transfer ...
Lloyd's has confirmed that it has completed the transfer of over $5bn (£3.47bn) to its trust funds i...
What's the damage?
The Woolf reforms have resulted in the speedier settling of personal injury claims. However, with the growth in after-the-event companies, insurers are looking to firms that specialise in the medical validation of such cases, says Simon Threadgold.
The Broker Network has launched Stakeholder.
The Broker Network has launched Stakeholder, a plan incorporating provision of funds, BNL membership...
Invest in investors.
Insurers should turn to external asset management companies to deal with the investment side of the business, in order to free up time to focus on their core activities and ensure a good return for their shareholders, says John Troiano.
An EL of a balancing act.
The Woolf reforms and other new legislation has brought great weight to bear on insurance companies for the swift settlement of employers' liability claims. Front-end loading is held to be the best way to counterbalance this. Lynn Rouse gauges insurers'…
Appointment at Ace.
Paula Cox has been appointed to the position of corporate counsel of Ace. In this role, she will pro...
Analysis goes live.
Next week, Post Magazine's online service, www.insurancewindow.net, goes live with a new service called Analysis, an essential and comprehensive source of financial data on insurance and reinsurance companies, major brokers and loss adjusters in the UK…