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NU in 2003 online commercial push.
Norwich Union has started work on a new project designed to provide its brokers with online commerci...
Guardian sets up Scalenet.
Disaster recovery firm Guardian iT, which last year saw its web-hosting operation at Heathrow Corpor...
Comverse wins Admiral deal.
Admiral Insurance has selected New York-based Comverse Infosys to provide it with call centre record...
Gallagher aims for top-five position.
US broking giant Arthur J Gallagher & Co has revealed that it aims take a top-five position in the U...
View from the top - Paul Spencer
Paul Spencer, UK chief executive Royal & Sun Alliance. Much has been said and written this year abo...
What the Papers Say.
The Sunday Times A British tourist, who was savaged by a dingo during a holiday in Queensland, is...
Inreon hosts cat capacity sale
Inreon, the internet reinsurance trading platform, is holding sales of European property catastrophe ...
Durand to be vice-president at Scor
French reinsurer Scor has announced that Romain Durand, president and chief operating officer of grou...
Standard Life forges forward
Despite continuing rumblings for demutualisation, Standard Life increased both premium revenue and sa...
2002 good for reinsurance stocks
Insurance industry stocks will do well next year, according to investment bank Fox-Pitt, Kelton (FPK)...
Danes acquire Ark & General and Electromec
Ark & General and Electromec, two UK damage recovery businesses, have been acquired by Danish facilit...
PWS Holdings in joint venture with Gecalux Group
Reinsurance broker PWS Holdings and Luxemburg-based enterprise risk management and captive management...
AM Best Downgrades Rating of CTR
The A- (Excellent) rating on Compagnie Transcontinentale de Reassurance (CTR), Paris has been downgra...
Scor creates Dublin reinsurer
French reinsurance giant Scor is to set up a reinsurance vehicle in Dublin. The company, Irish Rein...
Copenhagen Re ceases underwriting
Copenhagen Re has stopped writing business, making it the first reinsurance casualty of the terrorist...
Life in Lithuania.
UK insurer CGNU is investing £5m in Lithuania, in an effort to become a leading player in the life i...
Industry welcomes all-party NHS consultation.
The insurance industry has welcomed the Chancellor of the Exchequer's indication that the government...
Top 100 2000/01.
The UK general insurance market was in a state of flux last year, but PM's Top 100 provides a useful snapshot of the sector in 2000.
View from the top - Digby Jacks
Digby Jacks, secretary, Alliance for Finance. I never cease to be surprised how political the envir...
Charman case.
Ace's High Court litigation against John Charman, former group president and chief executive of Ace ...
Management trio acquire broker Stackhouse Poland.
Three brokers have bought Hampshire-based independent insurance broker Stackhouse Poland. Jeremy ...
Standards response.
Service standards are the main sticking point in the relationship between insurers and brokers, with further unrest caused by merger and acquisition activity, according to Post Magazine's latest broker survey. Jane Bernstein examines the results.
Appointment at Europea.
Specialist accident and health underwriting agency Europea has taken on Caroline Popoola to its poli...
Student site is a qualified failure.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.