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Blackmore on the up.
Alfred Blackmore has posted promising results for the year end 31 March 2000. The company's brokerag...
Brokers versus insurers in age-old war of words.
The tussle between insurers and brokers is as old as the hills, as this report from Post Magazine, 4...
Attorney-General v Bishop.
5 July 2000 Divisional Court Attorney-General v Scriven 4 February 2000 Queen's Bench Div...
ABI disappointed over Bill.
The Association of British Insurers said it was "disappointed" the government failed to introduce a ...
Taylor to step down at Lloyd's
Max Taylor, chairman of Lloyd's is to step down in December after three years in the post. He said th...
Commentary - Advert effects.
The marketing of personal injury claims services may become increasingly sophisticated following the...
Appointment at Coversure Insurance Services.
John Hooper has been made operations director at Coversure Insurance Services. Previously he was the...
Judge uses fire case to underline 'harsh' rule.
Co-operative Retail Services v Taylor Young Partnership and others 4 July 2000 Court of Appeal...
L&G review orphan assets but rule out Equitable deal
Legal and General ruled itself out of the bidding for Equitable Life yesterday on the day the beleagu...
Lloyd's aviation arm takes flight.
Lloyd's has sold its adjusting aviation department to the Charles Taylor Group for £2.6m. It is the ...
Online rankings.
Readers can now have free online access to detailed financial and market information on over 100 ins...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has appointed Jonathan Sutcliffe as claims manager at its Cheadle office and G...
Appointment at Canada Life.
John Roberts has been appointed director of group business at Canada Life. He joined the company in ...
Training initiative.
Four industry bodies have teamed up to develop training and competence toolkits for financial advise...
Royal Commission report to be delivered today.
The now long-overdue government response to last year's Royal Commission report into long-term care ...
RSA aims small.
Royal & Sun Alliance has launched an online service aimed at small businesses. The site, www.usecolo...
Wellington denies rebuff reports.
Wellington Underwriting Agencies has denied reports that it rebuffed an informal offer from fellow L...
Axa delegates power.
Axa Insurance has upped its fight for a larger share of business from the 200 general insurance brok...
Equitas surplus up.
Equitas, set up to reinsure and run off the 1992 and prior years' on-life liabilities of Lloyd's syn...
Lloyd's chairmanship to revert to part-time
Lloyd's chairmanship is to revert from full- to part-time from 2001. The role became full-time back...
IPCRe reports catastrophe losses
Bermuda-based property catastrophe reinsurer IPCRe has reported losses of $22.1m for the quarter endi...
PXRe expects five-fold increase in losses
Bermuda-based PXRe has announced that it is expecting to make a net loss of around $23.5m in the seco...
Legal & General up in first half
Legal & General Group has recorded pre-tax operating profits of £231m for the first half of the year,...
Concorde crash costs estimates
The crash yesterday of the Air France Concorde which tragically killed 100 passengers, nine crew and ...