News
Appointment at London Borough of Merton.
Steve Mappley has been promoted to the post of principal risk management & insurance officer for the...
Appointment at Cornhill Schemes.
Cornhill Schemes has appointed Graham Norris as divisional manager, operations. He joined Cornhill i...
Hiscox view raises eyebrows and hackles.
The usual approach when faced with the pub bore is to nod and make one's excuses as quickly as possi...
Appointment at GAB Robins.
Mark Griffiths joins GAB Robins as part of the company's subsidence team. He was previously chief eng...
What the Papers Say.
Evening Standard Arsenal star Thierry Henry's £1.5m home has been ransacked by a burglar who esca...
Asbestos ruling will not go away.
Insurers should treat last week's landmark Court of Appeal ruling regarding mesothelioma claimants (...
Top of the PI charts.
Conveyancing work has attracted the highest number of solicitors' professional indemnity notificatio...
Appointment at Smart & Cook.
Smart & Cook, the insurance and financial services group, has made Jon Duke personnel manager, based...
Appointment at Rainbow International.
Rainbow International, disaster restoration specialists, has recruited Adrian Morton to head up its ...
Scotland calls for fast-track.
The Law Society of Scotland has called for a fast-track procedure for complaints against solicitors ...
Swiss Re set back in WTC dispute.
Swiss Re has suffered a setback in its dispute with World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein, as a...
Negligence rethink.
The Shadow Health Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has called for a fundamental rethink of the whole clinical...
Guardian forecast.
Disaster recovery specialist Guardian IT has posted poor financial forecasts for the second time thi...
Law Society vote.
A special general meeting of the Law Society has supported changes to members' voting rights that ma...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny can't help feeling that the ongoing saga of the Groupama sale is trundling on somewhat and the...
Brokers concern about FSA.
Brokers have voiced discontent about the transition of regulatory power from the self-regulating Gen...
The facts of life.
The big news this year for the life sector has been the continuing Equitable saga and latterly the introduction of new regulatory powers granted to the Financial Services Authority to supervise the UK's life insurers. Keith Sankey asks where does the…
Homer in start-up rumour.
Andy Homer, former chief executive of Axa Insurance in the UK, is understood to be set to return to ...
Fortis crash costs capped.
Fortis Group's exposure to the Selby rail disaster has been capped at £1.5m, despite estimates that ...
Axa confident of P&C business.
Axa Insurance remains confident of reaching a combined operating ratio for its property and casualty...
Malpractice: St Paul quits market.
US insurer St Paul is set to exit the UK medical malpractice market, with concomitant job losses, on...
EC decision on Lloyd's awaited.
The European Commission is expected to announce whether or not it will take the UK government to cou...
FSA's take on sales.
From the very start of the insurance industry's drive towards voluntary regulation, Post Magazine wa...
ReBriefs - Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings cleared of fraud
Bermuda-based (re)insurance broker Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings (now Atlantic Star Holdings) has be...