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Zurich in Bolivia.
Zurich Financial Services group is to acquire a 51% stake in both La Boliviana Ciacruz de Seguros an...
More for money.
Personal finance portal Moneyextra.com, which was launched in June and offers travel insurance, is t...
New Deal for poor industry.
It may seem ironic to some observers that the new head of one of the government's poverty busting ta...
Tenant failure cover market booms
Landlords are increasingly taking insurance cover against tenant failure instead of traditional rent ...
A new Innovation.
The Innovation Group has conditionally agreed to acquire Crosspath Consulting for a consideration of...
QBE targets Italy.
Australian insurer QBE has opened an office in Milan, Italy and will offer insurance cover ranging f...
Organophosphate Usage: Agricultural News - Avoiding the sheep dip.
In the fifth in our series in association with the Chartered Insurance Institute Society of Fellows, John Lane FCII, analyses the issues for insurers surrounding the use of organophosphates.
GAIN and CIFAS unite to fight.
The fight against fraud took a step forward this week when the Gone Away Information Network (GAIN) ...
Appointment at Chubb Europe.
Chubb Europe has recruited Paul Barnett as construction specialist within its engineered & special p...
Liability adjusters should not be ignored.
I agree with much of what Jason Nash said in his article "SIF - Insurers take a step back" (PM, 24 A...
Penny Black's insurance week.
City institutions are notoriously conservative bodies, none more so than the livery companies. Keep ...
Appointment at Friends Provident.
Friends Provident has appointed Jamie McIver as director of direct business operations, a position t...
Asbestos claims hike to bring Equitas to brink.
Equitas, the company established by Lloyd's to handle the pre-1992 liabilities of Names, could be fa...
Dial Direct calls up Pinnacle.
Coventry-based intermediary Dial Direct has entered the pet insurance market with the help of an est...
InsureStream: a steady flow.
Online insurance market, InsureStream, has been launched in the UK by US company e-Insurance Systems...
PXRe denies exit plans
Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRe has finally denied that it intends to leave Lloyd's (Post Magazine 14 Se...
ALP to enter the personal lines market.
Abbey Legal Protection is set to make a push into the personal lines market, with a number of employ...
Mynd your EC.
IT solutions and services provider Mynd, is to launch a series of programmes to enable users to comp...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Charles Lennox has been appointed motor trade underwriting manager and will be based in the company'...
Depressing year for cargo.
Kevan Gielty, chairman of the Cargo Committee, presented feedback from IUMI's cargo members, which r...
Appointment at The Beckett Group.
The Beckett Group has added another senior financial adviser to its team. Steven Wellard joins the K...
Appointment at The Leisure Consortium at Lloyd's.
Iain Ward previously underwriter-contingency is now contingency underwriting manager; Jane Todd has ...
Appointment at Legal Costs Assessors.
Stephen Pitt has joined the Bristol office of Legal Costs Assessors as deputy managing director. He ...
Court in the Act.
Marcus Alcock asks law firms what advice they would give to insurers in advance of the Human Rights Act going live.