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Appointment at Ansvar Insurance.
Leigh Ide has been appointed regional manager for the south east by Ansvar Insurance. He joins Ansva...
Insurance chief calls for FSA to wake up to social exclusion.
The Financial Services Authority needs to bear in mind social exclusion issues when making regulatio...
Lloyd's admits Glass Test errors.
Lloyd's has apologised to Names for the debacle over last year's Glass Test on solvency requirements...
Promark/IBM deal.
John Senior of IBM (left) celebrates with Richard Muddiman of Promark Software as IBM announced it w...
Appointment at Ward Evans Group.
Ward Evans Group has made eight appointments and two promotions to its York office. The new appointm...
Dutch hand over Holocaust details.
The Dutch Association of Insurers is the first to release details of Holocaust era policyholders to ...
New Dutch broker.
A new international insurance/reinsurance broker and risk management specialist has been set up in R...
Disco inferno.
Loss adjusters from Property and Casualty Services were called to the scene of a devastating fire at...
Scor buys PartnerRe's US life business
French reinsurance group Scor is to buy the US life operations of PartnerRe for an undisclosed sum. ...
Solicitors turning deaf ear to insurance efforts
Insurers and brokers attempts to win over solicitors in the run up to this September - following chan...
RSA in Indian alliance
UK insurer Royal & SunAlliance (RSA) plans to enter into the Indian non-life insurance market through...
QBE to withdraw from Iron Trades provincial and sell-off motor
Australian insurer QBE, which acquired Iron Trades in December 1999, has announced a shakeup of the b...
Oak branches into high net worth
Gloucestershire-based Oak Underwriting has entered the high net worth market. Managing director of th...
Lloyd's plan unveiled
A plan to change the way international insurance and reinsurance is conducted and processed in London...
Maritime merged into CNA
Maritime Insurance, which was bought by CNA in 1998, is to be merged with CNA Insurance (Europe) to f...
Max Re completes second offering
The Bermuda-market's newest reinsurer, Max Re, has had its total capitalisation raised to $509m follo...
May day in landmark credit car hire hearing
An attempt to overturn the Appeal Court's Dimond v Lovell judgement on credit car hire has been put b...
Bland steps down at CII
David Bland, director general of the Chartered Insurance Institute is to retire on 9 December this y...
Motor premiums up 2% every month
Car insurance premiums are rising by 2% a month, according to the latest figures produced by the AA f...
China comes to town
As China edges closer and closer to joining the World Trade Organisation, opening up its markets to f...
Admiral outsources Gladiator operation
Admiral Insurance Services has outsourced the administration of Gladiator, its non-standard car insur...
Gerling outlook deteriorates
Standard & Poor's has revised its outlook for the Gerling Group from stable to negative, citing disap...
Adjusters in the breach position.
At a recent Chartered Institute of Loss Adjuster's Masterclass on claims I was asked: "In the case o...
Appointment at The Occupational Pensions Regulator.
Nick Edmans has been appointed communications manager for OPRA. He was previously creative services ...