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FM Global snaps up contracts following market withdrawals.
Niche commercial insurer FM Global claims it is picking up several new contracts on the back of play...
Legal cover launch.
Online Claims has teamed up with MSL to offer a full range of legal expenses insurance. Adrian Benne...
BBC's The Broker's Man causes row.
A row has broken out over the 1996 BBC series The Broker's Man in which Kevin Whately played an ex-d...
Eureko recruits second UK partner to its fold.
The pan-European consortium of insurers Eureko has recruited its second UK partner by acquiring inve...
BT logs on to funds.
National independent financial adviser Inter-Alliance Group has struck a deal with British Telecom t...
Lappin in training.
Independent Insurance's personal lines manager Ken Lappin is set to take up the role as principal at...
Insurers must take a European stance.
European insurance companies' failure to take a company view on cross-border issues is seriously ham...
Rates set to fall for NHS trusts.
NHS trusts have benefited from shunning the commercial insurance sector, according to Health Ministe...
Aon UK job cuts hit 1000.
Broking giant Aon has confirmed it expects to cut 1000 UK jobs as part of its global restructuring -...
New Year's Honour.
Maurice Eugene Healy (above), chairman of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau Council, was among those me...
Hiscox mystery backers
Two major European reinsurers are to provide 7% of the overall capital for Lloyd's syndicate 33, mana...
Miller Pycraft to cull network.
Loss adjuster Miller Pycraft is planning a substantial cull of its office network from 22 down to 12...
Mynd your mergers.
Computer Sciences Corporation has completed its acquisition of Mynd Corporation - formerly Policy Ma...
Penny Black's insurance week.
A happy new year to you all - especially Lloyd's insurer Hiscox, which certainly gets its money's-wo...
Helphire eyes injury claims.
Credit hire company Helphire is set to make a major play for the growing personal injury compensatio...
£25m boost for JLT.
UK insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson is to get a boost of £25m from the restructuring of Frenc...
Towergate snaps up Kings Commercial
The acquisitive Towergate Underwriting Group, formed by Peter Cullum in 1997, has acquired the Kings ...
Insurers are bracing themselves.
Insurers are bracing themselves for a deluge of claims from flooding and burst pipes, following the ...
Salvage body seeks buyer.
The Salvage Association is to seek a buyer for its commercial interests after unveiling its latest r...
Making history.
Overseas brokers that are externally regulated and meet new technical and customer care standards co...
Care-ful welcome.
The Association of British Insurers and Age Concern have given a cautious welcome to the Treasury's ...
Reinsurers back syndicate 33
Two "major European reinsurers" are to provide 7% of the overall capital for Lloyd's syndicate 33, wh...
Kott heads Wellington in US
Stanley Kott has been promoted to chief executive of the US subsidiary of the Lloyd's property and ca...
Crump heads Independent unit
Paul Crump has taken on the role of UK property underwriter at Independent Insurance. Mr Crump's ro...