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Lloyd's under fire.
Lloyd's chief executive Nick Prettejohn insisted that the corporation was already taking action to r...
Trustees of pension schemes to declare their ethical policies.
Trustees of pension schemes now have to declare their ethical policies. Under the amendment to th...
Lloyd's makes date for new broker standards
Lloyd's is to announce in October the new standards that brokers from the UK and overseas will have t...
Aon Aviation Re restructures
Aon Aviation Re, part of reinsurance broker Aon Re Worldwide, has been renamed Aviation Consultancy a...
Ockham to accelerate HighCo transfer
Ockham Holdings, which owns Lloyd's motor insurer Highway, said at its annual general meeting today t...
JLT risks internet venture
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson, through its corporate risks and services division, has created JLT Int...
Lloyds sets October date for all comers
The new standards that brokers from the UK and overseas will have to meet in order to trade at Lloyd'...
Swiss Re gherkin passes another milestone
The Corporation of London has backed Swiss Re's plans to erect a new cigar-shaped office block of gla...
Lloyd's to toughen up
Lloyd's said it intended to toughen up over slack underwriting practices in the wake of severe critic...
ZFS cuts repairer network down to size
Zurich Financial Services is to slash its approved repairer network panel from 370 to 230 repairers i...
Eureko looks to expand
Eureko, the pan-European financial services group is to float within the next 18 months, with a dual ...
Advent moves on Kingsmead
Advent Capital (Holdings) is to acquire Lloyd's managing agent Kingsmead Underwriting Agency for an u...
Groupama restructures commercial team
Groupama Insurances has restructured its commercial insurance senior head office team with Maggie Lis...
CSC to take over Mynd
Computer services giant CSC is to acquire US rival and insurance specialist Mynd, which recently chan...
New Eureko to hit acquisition trail
Achmea of the Netherlands and Banco Comercial Portugues are to merge their insurance businesses with ...
OPL to buy Reliance Re
Bermuda-based reinsurer Overseas Partners (OPL) is to buy Reliance Re of the US for an undisclosed su...
Swiss Re buys stake in China Insurance International
Swiss Re has paid HK$ 120m ($15m) for a 9.9% stake in China Insurance International Holdings. China...
New MD at Le Mans.
Le Mans Re has appointed Jerome Coggia (pictured) as its managing director. Formerly a director o...
ERC's one-stop shop.
US-based Employers Re (ERC) is to rationalise its Canadian property and casualty operations to make ...
Cigna quits reinsurance.
US-based Cigna Corporation is to quit the reinsurance market, having sold its US individual and grou...
ING rebrands.
Dutch insurance group ING is to rebrand as ING Re its reinsurance operations in the US, the Netherla...
Seoul mates.
US-based Employers Re has set up a representative office in Seoul and has appointed Mr Young-Soo Shi...
Millers warning to Lloyd's.
Lloyd's broker Miller Insurance has warned that Lloyd's decision to open the market to non-Lloyd's b...
Hannover Re boosted by program income.
Hannover Re has reported gross premium income for 1999 up almost 50% on the previous year. Howeve...