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Appointment at Aon Consulting.
Aon Consulting has recruited Anthony Parish as its new customer service director in the pensions adm...
Cover shortfall fears.
Companies could be left without any reinsurance cover in the event of a loss come January, as protra...
Six exit solicitors' PI market this year.
Almost a fifth of insurers have exited the solicitors' professional indemnity sector this year, in t...
Lloyd's loss £5.4bn.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has estimated Lloyd's gross loss relating to the 11 September terror...
Professional window dressing.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Aqera to cut admin costs in half.
Business and IT infrastructure provider Aqera this week claimed it can save life insurers 50% of the...
Mutual move by BW.
Beachcroft Wansboroughs has launched a new division, Mutual Law, to provide a low cost, fixed fee se...
Appointment at Singer & Friedlander.
Ian Jerrum has become joint managing director of Singer & Friedlander Insurance Finance. He brings w...
Appointment at AIG Medical & Rehabilitation.
Melanie Summers has been appointed general manager for AIG Medical & Rehabilitation (AIG MR). Based ...
Genetic threat for insurers.
The government has warned the insurance industry that it will use legislation to enforce the extende...
Landmark on liability.
Brokers could now be faced with much greater liability when placing reinsurance contracts. Andrew Symons and Richard Tosh explain the future repercussions of last week's landmark House of Lords ruling.
Sirius: Bureau deal.
Sirius Financial Systems is offering web design and marketing services to customers, after striking ...
Cox in talks to take on Crowe's motor syndicate
Lloyd's insurer has entered into exclusive negotiations to take on the renewal rights for Crowe's mot...
Appointment at RAC Motoring Services.
The RAC has made two senior appointments to its financial services division. David Nicholas joins as...
Healthy options to rival Bupa.
An online insurance intermediary aims to put an end to Bupa's domination of the private health marke...
Flood time again.
East Anglia and Essex were hit by severe flooding over the weekend, with the Environment Agency issu...
Diamond strife.
Over 90% of diamond jewellery in the UK is underinsured, according to research by Loss Management Gr...
High Court rules on rogue insurer.
The Department of Trade and Industry has petitioned the High Court to wind up an unauthorised insura...
AIG health launch.
AIG Europe has launched a new group health product for smaller businesses. Group Healthnow provides ...
The weakest link?
A project, funded by several of the bigger insurers and a major software house, to develop an insurance industry internet portal, collapsed last week. Manjit Rana analyses what went wrong with i2i-link and the lessons to be learned.
GMI launch gives brokers specialist risks market.
Brokers have access to a new commercial lines wholesaler GMI Insurance Services. The Kent-based brok...
CTC: May in HR role.
Resolve chairman Paul May has been appointed to the board of Charles Taylor Consulting, the global a...
Key to claims fight.
To help fight against rising claims costs, Key Choice, CSC's marketing arm for its broking system us...
Hiscox losses up.
Robert Hiscox, chairman of Hiscox, described the insurance market as the strongest in living memory,...