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Gold rush' insurers risk huge losses.
Insurers face huge losses if they continue to underwrite the growing number of claims management com...
Companies channel their efforts into islands launch - Healthcare.
Cigna Healthcare has teamed up with broker IHC and Rossborough Healthcare International to launch a ...
B-word broker.
Mortgage broker John Charcoal has successfully defended itself to the Advertising Standards Authorit...
CGNU quids in.
CGNU is set to make more than the original £2.2bn estimated for the sale of its non-life US business...
PYV's helping hand.
Liabilities broker and risk manager PYV has set up a website, a helpline and also published a guide ...
Appointment at Gerling at Lloyd's.
Peter Middleton has been appointed to the new position of chief operating officer of Gerling at Lloy...
Guidelines issued for insurance entrance.
The Reserve Bank of India has released guidelines for non-banking financial companies to enter the d...
99.99% no risk.
IT infrastructure provider Selway Moore has joined up with HP Open View to launch a system managemen...
Poach a bit of Egg.
Shares in Prudential's Internet bank Egg are to be sold at £1.60 a piece it was announced this week....
CGNU to use Norwich Union brand to front sponsorship of British
CGNU is to use the Norwich Union brand to front its sponsorship of British Athletics. Prior to its m...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is still recovering from a few late nights last week in Birmingham under the guise of the AIRM...
Name change.
Financial adviser Inter-Alliance has changed its name to Inter-Alliance Group following a vote at it...
Bad timing and bad news for mutuals.
Mutuality is in for another rollercoaster ride this week as the House of Lords gets set to rule on t...
Commentary - Benefits decision may cost millions.
A recent decision of the Social Security Commissioner is being extensively relied upon by representa...
Painstaking planning.
With less than two weeks until the pomp and ceremony of the British Insurance Awards 2000, Alex Broad went out and about to talk to the people who have the headache of organising an event for 1700 guests.
Risks in 2000.
Insurers' failure to grasp the nettle of e-commerce was one of the main messages to emerge from this year's Association of Insurance and Risk Managers conference, as Anthony Gould reports.
Wellington deal back on.
Lloyd's insurer Wellington's £357m bid for Limit is back on track this week with the announcement th...
Date finally set for Axa launch.
Axa Corporate Solutions, the company created by the merger of Axa Re and Axa Global Risks, is to fin...
Appointment at Domestic & General.
John Ritchie has been made deputy managing director of Domestic & General Group. He is already the c...
Flexible friend for homebuyers - Mortgages.
Legal & General has unveiled a two-year fixed rate flexible mortgage for budget-conscious homebuyers...
Tempest Re appoints life & health officer
Tempest Re has appointed a chief life & health officer. Kin Gee, former president and chief operating...
Pru to float in the US
The Prudential is believed to be looking at US acquisitions following the announcement it plans to fl...
Colonial salesforce not needed
The 490 strong Colonial direct salesforce has been told by their employer's new parent it has no plac...
Rowland denies Lloyd's conspiracy
Sir David Rowland, former chairman of Lloyd's, yesterday told the High Court that it was not the resp...