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Thomas Miller plans managing agency under Dex project.
Thomas Miller & Co, the London market marine and transport mutual, aims to establish a Lloyd's manag...
Appointment at Smart and Cook.
Smart and Cook has promoted Lorraine Phillips to the position of group personal lines manager. Mr Ph...
Hannah Stowe was last week presented ...
Hannah Stowe was last week presented with the Peter Morley prize, sponsored by the One-Fifty Associa...
Overseas aid.
As the costs of setting up pan-European claims operations look set to fall, UK companies with European motor insurance exposure are looking at the options which are becoming available to them. Les Walker reports.
Appointment at CNA Insurance Company (Europe).
CNA Insurance has recruited Warren Jones to its financial lines team in London. He will specialise i...
Claims case strategy vital.
The Woolf reforms and other legal changes have had a huge impact on the processing of claims. All involved must keep their eye on the game, according to Nigel Roden and Andrew Pieri.
What the papers said this week.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A council has drafted in a team of SAS veterans to weed out troublemakers who...
... and complacency come from profit.
As the results season gets into full swing this week, the mix from insurers and brokers should not o...
Convergence must not be at cost of core skills.
The Chartered Insurance Institute this week underlined its ambitions to promote and reflect both the...
Rolf Huppi, embattled head of Zurich Financial Services ...
Rolf Huppi, embattled head of Zurich Financial Services, is to step down as the group's chief execut...
Prudential plans retail partnerships.
Life insurer Prudential said it plans to develop partnerships with retailers and other distributors ...
Appointment at J Bennett & Son Insurance Brokers.
High Wycombe-based J Bennett & Son Insurance Brokers has taken on Greg Chivers, Trevor Benjamin and ...
Bermuda calls for terror backstop.
Senior reinsurance industry executives last week renewed their calls for a federal backstop for terr...
Big investments mean Talbot can go shopping.
New Lloyd's managing agency Talbot Underwriting could look at possible acquisitions, after bucking t...
One in 50 workers suffers from symptoms of repetitive strain
One in 50 workers suffers from symptoms of repetitive strain injury and 5.4 million days were lost i...
Rising damp.
As flood levels rise once more across the UK, we could see an increase in the incidence of toxic mould. The industry would be wise to learn from examples in the US, where mould has already proved heavy weather for insurers, says Jane Bernstein.
Glent Winter has become a senior partner ...
Glen Winter has become a senior partner of Holmes Hardingham Walser Johnston Winter. He succeeds Adr...
Brian Wilson, Minister for Energy ...
Brian Wilson, Minister for Energy, this week announced the government is close to paying over £500m ...
Lost property.
Insurers in the property market are coming round to the idea of using repair networks over loss adjusters in the drive to cut claims appraisal costs. However, some believe using the two in tandem is the best solution to prevent the losses caused by fraud…
The Chartered Insurance Institute's 2002 Conference ...
The Chartered Insurance Institute's 2002 Conference, being held at the Birmingham International Conf...
Social fire.
Loss adjuster Woodgate & Clark is investigating the cause and quantum of a fire at Wetherby & Distri...
Appointment at Crutes.
Legal trainee Graeme Whitfield will be learning legal practice, after joining northern law firm Crut...
The first risk using the long-delayed new London Market Principles
The first risk using the long-delayed new London Market Principles Slip has been placed in the Lloyd...
The Cruellest Cut.
In the drive for cutbacks, companies may not make adequate provision for health and safety risk management. Not a shrewd move if they later find themselves at the sharp end of a manslaughter charge, says Richard Adams.