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EW Blanch losses.
Troubled broker EW Blanch, which has just been taken over by UK reinsurance broker Benfield Greig, h...
Ashworth Mairs Group to deal with loss.
The specialist major loss team from Ashworth Mairs Group has been instructed to deal with the buildi...
EU unites over insolvency directive.
A new European Union directive relating to insurance insolvency procedures could cause upheaval in t...
Online claims deal.
Online claims settlement company Cybersettle has signed a deal with former Eastgate chief executive ...
BDML to master pet.
Intermediary BDML aims to capture a 10% share of the total UK pet insurance market within three to f...
Appointment at Elliotts Solicitors.
Elliotts Solicitors has promoted Sarah Naylor to partner in its insurance litigation department. Ms ...
Cap Gemini wins Pru deal.
The Prudential has chosen Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as its IT outsourcing partner for mainframe and m...
Markel underwriting result improves
Markel reduced its combined ratio to 106% in the first quarter of this year, down from 114% in the pr...
Income drop at PMA Re
PMA Re has reported a 58% fall in its operating income for the first quarter of 2001, compared with a...
Premiums slump at CNA Re
CNA Re has reported net written premiums for the first quarter of 2001 down by almost half on the fir...
Hitachi Credit Insurance announce profits
Hitachi Credit Insurance Corporation has reported a business volume increase of 37% to £8m with a pre...
Crowe considering MBO
Lloyd's managing agency Crowe Syndicate Management could be on course for a management buy out after ...
Sherwood attacks north american market
Software and solutions provider Sherwood International has acquired Canadian-based Concise Technologi...
Friends Provident to demutualise in July
Mutual life insurer Friends Provident plans to demutualise and float on the London Stock Exchange in ...
Aon goes pan-European with accident management
Aon Motor Accident Management is to set up a pan-Eurpean standardised service to help companies' redu...
Governmnent warned off interfering
The government must tread carefully before intervening in the design of financial products, the Assoc...
Delegates take centre stage.
When Adrian Leonard attended the second biennial Dublin insurance conference in March, he found that it was the delegates themselves that provided the most informative feedback.
News in brief.
Karen Clark, president and chief executive of Applied Insurance Research (AIR), has been named Woman ...
Direct benefit for Munich Re.
Munich Re has claimed that the proposed complex restructuring of German financial firms, in which Eu...
News in brief.
Axa Corporate Solutions Re and Renaissance Re are taking stakes in catastrophe insurance specialist ...
News in brief.
Creditors of New Cap Re Bermuda have until 31 May to lodge claims with liquidator Ernst & Young. The...
Catlin heads Lloyd's group.
Stephen Catlin has been re-elected as chairman of the Lloyd's Market Association (LMA), which will t...
Island hopping.
Managing director Atsushi Gamo sets out a convincing argument for moving all Sumitomo's non-Japanese and non-US reinsurance business to Dublin. Adrian Leonard reports.
News in brief.
Conoco's Killingholme oil refinery in the UK, which was damaged by fire on 16 April, was insured thro...