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Bright Grey eyes group market longer-term.
Royal London's new protection business Bright Grey could take on the group market if it succeeds in ...
The seeds of success.
While money does not grow on trees, proactive developments in companies' business strategies will help them branch out into new risks, giving them the edge in blossoming markets. David Fanning analyses what is at the root of these businesses' success.
Stop CFA technical challenges.
Patrick Allen criticises insurers' latest attempt to avoid payment, following the Clipson case.
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny had a delightful time at the Isle of Wight over the weekend as a participant in the Lutine Lin...
MMA adds online motor trade quotations to web-based offering.
Broker-only insurer MMA has added online motor trade quotations to its web-based offering, Broker On...
Insurance fraud update: catching and prosecuting fraudsters.
17 September 2002 - The Barbican Centre Identifying and catching fraudsters remains a top priority...
Industry must be accountable for EL crisis.
I speak as a liability underwriter. Like the rest of us, I never envisaged a day when liability insu...
Zurich to renew stand-alone.
EL Zurich this week said it would offer renewal terms to all its current stand-alone employers' liab...
Reinsurance duo laments poor results.
The world's two largest reinsurers Munich Re and Swiss Re both lamented poor equity returns when ann...
Reach brain injury seminar.
Post Magazine has teamed up with Reach Personal Injury Services to put on two half-day seminars on s...
Lloyd's named in slavery lawsuit.
Lloyd's has been named as a defendant in the latest round of lawsuits to be filed in the US seeking ...
ZFS restructures UK general insurance business.
Zurich Financial Services has merged its Retail Financial Services division with its Strategic Partn...
VZBV to sue life insurers.
The German Federation of German Consumer Associations VZBV plans to sue two of the country's life in...
All change in RSA shake-up.
Royal & Sun Alliance has stressed it is still committed to the intermediated personal lines market, ...
Disaster message not getting through.
It is surprising and rather disappointing that after the dreadful events of 11 September, recent hig...
Putting the squeeze on schemes.
Where there's a broker, there's a scheme. But only those packages that squeeze out genuine added value for niche market customers will survive, warns Simon Threadgold.
ABI triggers talks over EL reforms.
The Association of British Insurers will tomorrow launch the first stage in its long-term strategy d...
AIR Worldwide creates database of possible terrorist targets.
AIR Worldwide, which in the past has designed statistical models to help insurers predict natural di...
QBE tight-lipped on acquisition plans.
Australian general insurance giant QBE is understood to be looking at further acquisition possibilit...
Scor lined up to buy Gerling reinsurance operations
French reinsurer Scor has emerged as the front-runner in the moves by the Gerling Group of Germany to...
Scor surges ahead in property and casualty
A 43% year-on-year increase in property and casualty (P&C) gross written premiums (GWP) to €1.2bn in ...
German terror pool opens
Germany's state-backed terrorism insurer, Extremus, has opened for business, but its insurer sharehol...
AIR models US terrorism risks
AIR Worldwide has launched what it calls the first commercially available probabilistic model able to...
S&P reviews Swiss Re's rating
Swiss Re, the world's second largest reinsurer, has had its 'AAA' ratings put under review by Standar...