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Heaney quits to set up rival
GAB Robin's UK liability director John Heaney has resigned in order to launch a new liability loss a...
Axa PPP: quotes for brokers.
AXA PPP Healthcare has launched an online quote engine for brokers, offering a more detailed method ...
View from the top- Geoff Riddell, chief executive, general business, Zurich UK
One aspect of the economic cycle that underwriters always fear is the growing incidence of fraud and...
Apply now for new FSA position.
The first chief executive of the Financial Services Authority could be appointed before the end of J...
Cunningham Lindsey secures recovery of £1.8m.
Cunningham Lindsey, with solicitor Kennedys and engineers from the Halcrow Group, has secured recove...
Equitas to appeal US asbestos liability ruling
Equitas, the company established to reinsure and run-off Lloyd's pre-1993 liabilities, intends to ap...
Appointment at eReinsure.
eReinsure, a provider of e-commerce technology for negotiating reinsurance, has recruited James Low ...
Lord Levene in the hot seat
At the recent Post Magazine/Eversheds hot seat, Lloyd's chairman Lord Levene used feedback from the US to set out his stall for improving the efficiency of the London market. Marcus Alcock reports
Appointment at Hill Dickinson.
Commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has appointed Martin Gill as fraud investigation director and Sco...
Tooth picks.
Brit, which sponsored the Super Series Squash Finals in the Square Mile this week, has entered the m...
Pooling resources
The recent floods across Europe have had significant implications for the damage management industry in the UK. Richard Adams examines this business; the availability of skilled workers, the quality of work, and the criticisms it faces.
Jobs to go as Inreon fails.
The London-based reinsurance trading platform Inreon is to be put in run-off after failing to secure...
Chaucer says all new shares have been sold.
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer last week said all the new shares offered earlier this year as part of its b...
Confidential talks tackle costs chaos
The current costs debacle besetting the UK's civil justice system could be set to come to an end, fol...
Churchill deal.
Insurer Churchill has signed up FileNet, as part of a multi-million-pound deal, in an effort to impr...
RSA goes solo on terrorism.
Royal & Sun Alliance's technical underwriting director Colin Short has expressed surprise at the fac...
SMEs: new e-risk launch
Small to medium-sized enterprises have been "priced out of the market" when it comes to insuring the...
Appointment at Deacon Insurance.
Specialist property intermediary Deacon Insurance Services has appointed Julie Purkiss, formerly ope...
ABI report falls short on panels
Eight months after its original release date, the Association of British Insurers' document on compo...
Don't tar all solicitors with the same brush.
Although it may be unfashionable during the continuation of the so-called costs war, I write to repo...
PM scoops sponsor's shield.
The afternoon at Villa Park kicked off with the Sponsor's Challenge Shield this year played as a thr...
Appointment at Marsh.
Marsh Inc has made Jeremy Cooke chief executive of the firm's wholesale broking and underwriting man...
Pulling into the bus and coach depot
After the publication of the first risk management survey of the UK bus and coach industry, Clive Moffatt studies the results and finds that the compensation culture is taking its toll, leading to calls for government intervention.
Benfield returns to profit
Reinsurance broking giant Benfield today reported that turnover increased by 31.5% to £284.5m (2001: ...