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Engineering change?
A drop in the number of high-quality engineers is posing recruitment problems for engineering insurers. Dick Parmley predicts a bleak future for the sector, unless something changes soon.
Startrak launch.
Security and risk management specialist Startrak, which offers satellite tracking products, has laun...
Channel-hopping.
With significant growth predicted for the household market, changes in selling and distribution channels are gathering pace, as insurers find more ingenious ways to secure their market share, says David Fanning.
JLT: house-sitting for Orbis.
Property protection specialist Orbis has appointed Jardine Lloyd Thompson Municipal Risks to support...
Predator targets thirty brokers.
Bristol-based healthcare specialist Insurety is aiming to become a dominant player in the market wit...
Insurers must focus on the fraud fight.
The huge jump in rural crime has a much wider relevance than simply being a blow for those insurers ...
Critical campaign.
Permanent insurance has launched a major marketing campaign to boost sales of its critical illness p...
McLarens reforms beat schedule set.
Loss adjuster McLarens Toplis has completed its structural review and put the findings in place thre...
India opens sector.
India's insurance regulator will accept bids from companies seeking to enter the sector from 16 Augu...
Crawford centralises services at Cardiff.
Loss adjuster Crawford & Company has centralised its claims and risk management services in south Wa...
RapidInsure plug.
Online insurance provider RapidInsure.co.uk has been named a recommended insurance website by leadin...
Prudential's great Egg race.
Egg, Prudential's internet bank, is entering the motor insurance market this weekend with Egg Insure...
... a medical underwriter.
Scientists change their minds from one day to the next about what is good for us and what is bad. Legal & General's Russ Whitworth has to keep abreast of these issues in his role as chief medical underwriter, as Jonathan Swift discovered.
Independent rise.
Independent Insurance reported a 39% rise in underwriting profit to £24m in its interim results this...
Bollington builds up its brokerage.
Macclesfield-based broker the Bollington Group has acquired R&A Grove Insurance Brokers for an undis...
Scott to succeed Bland as CII head.
The Chartered Insurance Institute has appointed 44-year-old Sandy Scott as its new director general ...
Pension funds cover concerns.
Employers may be forced to insure pension funds against bankruptcy as part of proposals currently be...
Ups and downs.
Janina Clark finds 1999's top reinsurers relying far more on their investments than their underwriting results.
Charmed nation?
On the surface, Taiwan's economy looks remarkably stable for a country hit by a major earthquake last year. Jeremy Golden peers into the cracks to see how the (re)insurance market is faring.
Planning for the future.
With the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous fast approaching - heralding the start of the renewal season - the ...
Agents of change.
Cameron Andrews finds out how rating agencies are keeping pace with change in both the reinsurance market and their own.
Taking lessons in e-security.
Bermuda's (re)insurers have been seeking advice from Dr Bill Hancock (left), scourge of computer hackers the world over. Mairi Mallon reports.
1999's Top 20 Reinsurance Groups Ranked by net written premiums
REINSURANCE STATISTICS (A) Net written reinsurance premiums 1999 ($m) (B) Net written reinsuranc...
Rocky road to recovery.
The ice storm of 1998 did little to thaw frozen reinsurance rates, and fewer and fewer cessions mean improvement in the Canadian reinsurance market is likely to be slow. Adrian Leonard reports.