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NU to streamline.
Norwich Union is to withdraw commercial facilities PLANet, Connectivity and Downstream as part of it...
Hiscox spurns Chubb.
Hiscox's management this week rejected the overtures of US giant Chubb despite being offered the opp...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Chubb's move for Hiscox last week did not come as a surprise to many in the London market. And certa...
Waters v West Sussex County Council.
Worthing County Court 27 November 2000 The claimant, who was seven years old, was running in the s...
Confusion of risk managers means insurers are missing out.
Insurers who specialise in technology risks are missing out on business because corporate risk manag...
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert defends Clifford Chance.
Transatlantic law firm Clifford Chance has instructed insurance giant Barlow Lyde & Gilbert to defen...
Government responds on Chester Street
Michael Meacher, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, has washed his ha...
Appointment at Orange.
Orange has appointed Vikki Chandler as assistant risk manager. She joins the corporate risk manageme...
Appointment at Impact Plus.
George Bell has been promoted to a director of Impact Plus, the business and technology consultants....
Folgate sets penalty clause.
Broker only insurer Folgate has announced details of a new long-term commercial policy, which includ...
Ignoring Claims Direct "winners".
What a pity that you still ignore the one third plus VAT commission which is taken by Claims Direct,...
Houlder recalls Lloyd's broker.
Houlder Insurance Services is to sit on a government-supported task force which aims to produce a po...
Appointment at Hannover Re.
Roland Vogel has been put in charge of the finance and accounting division of Hannover Re. He was pr...
Scotland as a microcosm.
The insurance experience of Scotland is much the same as the rest of the UK. However, its size means that certain factors are amplified in their effect as Edward Murray discovers.
Kennedys takes on Mills & Reeve partners for NHS legal panel.
City law firm Kennedys has been appointed to the National Health Service Litigation Authority legal ...
Appointment at Combined Insurance.
Martin Bond, formerly of Lloyd's Syndicate 1007, has joined the special risks unit of Combined Insur...
Appointment at Watershed Claims Services.
Yorkshire-based liability specialists Watershed Claims Services has added Neil Courtman and Stephen ...
Miller: new chair.
Current deputy chairman, Iain Webb-Wilson will succeed Mike Mahoney as chairman of The Miller Insura...
One step up.
IT software and services company, Rebus, has upgraded its WorldView solution with the launch of vers...
Appointment at August Group.
Solution provider of electronic document management to the Lloyd's and London insurance markets, aug...
In which we e-serve for back office.
Internet software specialist insurE-com has launched a new service, insur-E.serve, to facilitate th...
Child seats a legal saver.
Jones v Jones Court of Appeal 18 December 2000 The claimant, aged three, was a passenger in ...
McManus move.
Brendan McManus has joined the Royal & Sun Alliance commercial executive team as marketing and distr...
CGI forms Allianz.
IT software and services company CGI Europe has rolled out its Global Insurance Open Solution to ove...