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3 March National Security Inspectorate - Reducing Risk Together seminar Leeds United Football Club...
Appointment at VBRA
The Board of Management of the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association has made Malcolm Tagg dire...
Chaucer Insurance improves its forecasts
Chaucer Insurance has improved its forecasts for the 2003 year of account and announced a profit of ...
Heath Lambert Group announces retirement of executive chairman
Heath Lambert Group has announced the retirement of Ian Martin, executive chairman. Managing directo...
Zurich secures extension of deal with Bradford and Bingley
Zurich's personal insurance business has secured a three-year extension of its long-standing deal wi...
Two-pronged claims clean-up
The introduction of statutory regulation (see p1) has coincided with the government's launch of two ...
Lloyd's 'outdated' practices come under fire from broker
Lloyd's practices have come under fire from the chief executive of broker Stuart Alexander who backe...
QBE acquires Greenhill Underwriting Group
QBE has acquired Greenhill Underwriting Group, a UK-based underwriting agency with offices in Paris,...
Riding high
An insurance scheme to protect jockeys from the dangers of horse racing is in crisis. The diminishin...
Heath Lambert Group appoints director of claims management
Heath Lambert Group has appointed Tim Murphy as a director of claims management services. Mr Murphy ...
Advisory Board
The Post Magazine Claims Club Advisory Board Chair: Anthony Gould, editor-in-chief, Post Magazine ...
RBSI opens up for tender
Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance will kick off its long-awaited loss adjusting tender this month, fo...
UK insurers' dismay at US security proposals
Insurers writing risks in the US could soon be forced to charge lower premiums and become a security...
FSA deadline set for broker web returns
The Financial Services Authority this week insisted its requirement for firms to submit web-based re...
Axa premium dragged by sale
Axa Insurance UK's decision to pull out of direct motor business in 2004 produced a slight drag on p...
Endurance Worldwide appoints panel of loss adjusters
Endurance Worldwide Insurance has selected Cunningham Lindsey, Crawford and Comapny and GAB Robins t...
Markel looks for Canada fillip
Markel International is launching an underwriting office in Canada in the summer aimed at boosting b...
Appointment at Heath Lambert
Heath Lambert Group has made Nigel Godwin executive director within its major accounts group. Mr God...
Appointment at Misys Financial Systems
Chris Sheldon has joined Misys Financial Systems as account manager to cover the East Midlands. Mr S...
Government steps in to regulate claims
The government has decided to step in to police the claims management sector, with the Department fo...
Appointment at Aon Re
Philip Stamp has been promoted to chairman and chief executive officer of Aon Re UK. Mr Stamp joined...
AA abandons its plan for commercial market push
AA Insurance Services has abandoned immediate plans for a push into the commercial market. The brok...
Crawford and Company reinforces its UK technical services
Crawford and Company has reinforced its UK technical services, with the appointments of Nick Michell...
What the papers said this week
The Daily Telegraph Norwich Union, the UK's biggest insurer, last week made a settlement for victim...