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The theft of five paintings on sale for over £1.7m ...
The theft of five paintings on sale for over £1.7m occurred at the Stockholm International Antiques ...
Appointment at James Chapman & Co.
Manchester-based insurance litigation firm James Chapman & Co has made Roger Brooks a partner. Mr Br...
Household insurance sales boost Lloyds TSB.
Lloyds TSB General Insurance recorded a rise in operating profit for 2001 of £668m, compared to £587...
All ships entering New Zealand waters ...
All ships entering New Zealand waters may have to be insured to protect taxpayers from picking up th...
Hercules Property Services ...
Hercules Property Services said this week that turbulence within the property insurance markets had ...
A Tokyo court has rejected an initial 55% ...
A Tokyo court has rejected an initial 55% of overseas reinsurance claims submitted by creditors of t...
US life giant Met Life ...
US life giant Met Life is set to close the MetLife Insurance Company of the Philippines, claiming it...
Insurers hit out over remote claim.
Insurance companies have rebuffed suggestions by management consultant Accenture that they plan to t...
Bermudian reinsurer PXRe has reported a net loss ...
Bermudian reinsurer PXRe has reported a net loss of almost £13m for 2001 - a significant increase on...
Appointment at Researchsummary.
Dr Charles Lambert has moved to researchsummary as executive director to expand the firm's consultin...
Inreon chairman Kaj Ahlmann is to take on the additional role ...
Inreon chairman Kaj Ahlmann is to take on the additional role of chief executive when Rob Bredahl le...
This year's Lloyd's Yacht Club racing event ...
This year's Lloyd's Yacht Club racing event, the 2002 Lineslip Regatta to be held in Cowes on 30 and...
Crawford offers staff sabbaticals.
Loss adjuster Crawford & Co is now offering its staff sabbaticals in what it hopes will be seen as a...
SVB and Wellington set for further losses.
Listed Lloyd's vehicles took a battering this week, with both Wellington and SVB experiencing diffic...
Group 4 makes cover pledge.
Group 4 has given assurances that insurance is in place to cover the cost of last week's fire and ri...
View from the US - asbestos.
The years-old problem over claims from asbestos liability has taken a new turn, with Met Life settin...
Appointment at Autoglass.
Autoglass has made Simon Manning business manager. He joined the company in 1997 as a call centre ad...
Norwich Union has launched a commercial product ...
Norwich Union has launched a commercial product for shops and salons, the first in a new set of comm...
WTC links.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani surprised the City last week, when he popped in to visit Lloy...
Broker-only insurer MMA Insurance ...
Broker-only insurer MMA Insurance has launched a property and liability telephone claims service for...
Reinsurance cycle will flatten out
Cycles in the reinsurance industry will be shallower in the future, according to Alice Schroeder, ins...
Industry chiefs renew call for US terror backstop
Senior reinsurance industry executives yesterday renewed their calls for a US federal backstop for te...
Element Re publishes guide to weather risk
Element Re has published a book on the weather risk industry. The book, Weather Risk Management, wa...
CII goes online with Ed
The Chartered Insurance Institute has launched an online training service, ed., which is aimed at bot...