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St Paul Re management changes
New York-based St Paul Re is reshuffling its management and creating a separate financial solutions u...
GISC rule ammendments
The General Insurance Standards Council has issued a number of amendments to its rule book - due for ...
Bancassurance exposes culture clash says FSA
Bancassurance developments should be watched carefully, Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Serv...
RSA e-procurement gets green light
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance has completed the first phase of an e-procurement system designed to sav...
SLPH delisted as Axa pays £2.3bn for subsidiary
French insurance group Axa's buyout of the minority shareholding in its UK subsidiary Sun Life & Prov...
Trust is key to insurance e-commerce
Insurers need to cultivate trust among young consumers in order to increase insurance sales over the ...
Overseas business accounts for a quarter of UK insurance premiums
Nearly £30bn ($45.5bn), or about 25%, of total UK insurance sector gross premiums came from overseas ...
Layton Blackham adds Whitehorse
Broker Layton Blackham has made its fifth acquisition in six months with the addition of the Whitehor...
M&S puts household contract in place
Marks & Spencer Financial Services has appointed Service Master as the sole supplier of restoration s...
Hannover Life Re backs Mid-Continent buy
Florida-based Hannover Life Re of America is to finance the acquisition of Mid-Continent Life Insuran...
Dowling quits IPC Re
John Dowling, Bermuda-based IPC Re's president and chief executive, has announced that he is to take ...
Financial services industry confidence falls
Business confidence among financial service firms has fallen for the first time in the last 18 months...
US insurers pay $1.4bn in Q2 cat losses
Insured catastrophe losses of just $1.4bn gave US property/casualty insurers a welcome reprieve in th...
Chartwell teams join The Underwriter
Insurer The Underwriter, has recruited two teams of UK regional general liability underwriters from C...
Online aircraft coverage for brokers
A fully interactive online aircraft insurance website - aeroinsure.com - has been launched by special...
Taylor moves to ABI.
Richard Taylor has joined the Association of British Insurers as head of research. He takes up the n...
Appointment at Albany Software.
Emma Cooper has been made marketing manager at Albany Software....
Audatex unveils new net plans.
Motor estimating system provider Audatex has launched a new internet strategy and is now looking at ...
Town & Country Assistance unveil new process Third Party First.
Hire: going to Town Specialist motor claims company Town & Country Assistance has unveiled a new pro...
Technological wizards.
With dot coms here and internet start-ups there, one could be forgiven for thinking that the only form of IT advancement is via the web, writes Marcus Alcock. Not so, proved Provident Insurance.
Pohjola sells Life.
Pohjola Group Insurance Corporation is to sell its Life Assurance Company to Suomi Mutual Life Assur...
Appointment at August Group.
Solutions provider August has appointed Jack Massarano to lead its e-commerce development team. Prev...
Garwyn faces unclear fate.
The future of liability loss adjuster Garwyn remains uncertain following QBE's victory in the protr...
Claims Direct names it price
Insurance industry pet-hate, the no-win no-fee personal injury claims recovery company Claims Direct ...