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Africa, land of contrasts.
A continent where civil wars, famine and subsistence economies are common seems to lack the assets needed to generate sizeable reinsurance premiums, but there is potential for those willing to seek it out, reports John Sanders.
Brit outlines profit and loss
Brit Insurance Holdings has recorded a pre-tax profit for the first half of this year and reconfirmed...
Claims People interims
Loss adjuster the Claims People Group has recorded turnover for the first six months of this year of ...
St Paul dominates solicitors' PI sector as rates stall
St Paul International Insurance has retained its position as market leader for solicitors' profession...
Axa moves into Aberdeen
Axa has opened a new commercial business branch in Aberdeen. The branch will concentrate on small to ...
Lloyd's downgraded by S&P and Fitch
Lloyd's financial strength has been downgraded to A from A+ and placed on credit watch negative by ra...
Airlines avoid insurance crisis
Airlines narrowly averted an insurance crisis, which threatened to ground flights next week, followin...
Lloyd's WTC liability revealed
Lloyd's is liable for $683m of the $3.55bn property and business interuption programme for the World ...
Plane pool set for shake-up.
Managing agency Global Aerospace, which is jointly owned by the UK's two largest general insurers, m...
Collateral damage.
Last week's reinsurance Rendez-Vous was overshadowed by the worst terrorist atrocity ever. Not only has the Manhattan skyline been irrevocably altered, the global reinsurance landscape, too, will never look the same again. Janina Clark reports from Monte…
Damage limitation.
Traditionally the domain of commercial insurers, risk management has now filtered its way through to the personal lines sector. Insurers vary in their approach to limiting the damage for clients, says Richard Adams.
CD sets aside £5m.
Personal injury specialist Claims Direct has set aside £5m to compensate 19,000 customers who took o...
GISC rule decision no victory.
This week's imagined victory by the Institute of Insurance Brokers and the travel agents over the Ge...
US attacks reduce IUMI attendance.
Marcus Alcock reports from Genoa, where the 127th International Union of Marine Underwriters' annual conference is being held.
BIBA attacks IIB over GISC rule 42 victory.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has attacked the Institute of Insurance Brokers for having...
Shortfall at Lloyd's.
Initial indications following last week's US terrorist attacks are that Lloyd's capacity for the 2002...
Appointment at HPI Group.
The HPI Group, the main source of vehicle information for the UK motor industry and motoring consume...
QBE shares suspended
Australian insurer QBE today suspended trading in its shares at A$3.35 (£1.13) as a result of "huge s...
Tesco nets profits.
Tesco Personal Finance this week said 35% of its new applications are via the internet. TPF - which ...
MCS to demerge.
MCS, which specialises in business-wide IT solutions for both the insurance broking and hire/rental ...
CIS welcomes Sarwar v Alam ruling despite defeat
Although the Court yesterday upheld the previous Chester County Court ruling in the case of Sarwar v ...
Global Aerospace.
Global Aerospace confirmed its aviation policies included terrorist cover. Tony Medniuk (pictured...
Climate Change conference.
Post Magazine's Climate Change conference was promoted in conjunction with the Society of Fellows, w...
MMT goes for Gold.
London-based solutions company MMT Computing has become a member of the Microsoft Gold Certified Par...