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Appointment at Newmedia SPARK.
Newmedia SPARK has made Bruno Delacave director and chief financial officer of the company. Mr Delac...
Sink or swim.
Broker Alexander Forbes has reported that 41 solicitors have been forced into the Assigned Risks Poo...
Appointment at Claims People Group.
The Claims People Group has recruited Gordon Vater as operations director of its loss adjusting arm....
Bupa faces split decision
Britain's largest health insurer Bupa could be required to split up it insurance and hospital busines...
Modern framework.
Introducing the annual report, president Reg Brown said that the conclusion of the four-year-long de...
No win, no fee: all in the details.
I was amused by Ashton West's comments in your article on conditional fee agreements and advertising...
Mivtach snapped up by Migdal.
Israel's Migdal Insurance, one of that country's largest insurers, is to acquire Mivtach Shamir Insu...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny could not help but admire Bev Fitzgerald of Miller Pycraft for portraying no signs of emotion ...
Appointment at Marsh & McLennan Companies.
William Rosoff has been named senior vice president and general counsel at Marsh & McLennan Companie...
Appointment at Zurich IFA Group.
Zurich IFA Group has taken on David Hodges as its new international and UK group pensions marketing ...
The Danish factor.
Nordic credit insurer NCM has acquired Danish factoring company Forenede Factors, a subsidiary of Da...
Mediation service agreed.
Insurers are expected to benefit from a new contract mediation service, launched this week, which is...
Appointment at FirstCity.
FirstCity has recruited Matthew Swayne as an executive director of its reinsurance division. In addi...
Surveyors out: e-commerce in.
Insurers should be prepared to walk away from "sacred cows" in order to fully embrace e-commerce acc...
Show-stopper.
The recent Olympic equestrian events have fired the imaginations of horse owners and would-be horse owners around the country, but the hidden costs of keeping a horse in top form can be very expensive indeed. This is where insurers can help, explains…
Scottish terms online.
Scottish Widows has launched an online term assurance quotation and application service called TermO...
The camera never lies.
HIH Casualty and General Insurance & others v The Chase Manhattan Bank & others Queens Bench Divi...
Appointment at Aon.
Nigel Baker and Eamonn McMurrough have joined the aviation consultancy and reinsurance services divi...
Groupama invests in property market.
Groupama Commercial has launched a new property package for brokers and intermediaries designed to g...
Claims take AIM.
Insurance claims handler The Claims Group, which has conditionally raised £1m by placing shares, hop...
New COO for CNA Global reinsurer.
CNA Re, has appointed Debra McClenahan as chief operating officer for new underwriting and support c...
Chiyoda pulls out of London.
Chiyoda Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Europe) has pulled out of the London market reinsurance b...
Jammy, but no macs allowed.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
More brokers quit Heath.
A second team of brokers has resigned on mass from broker Heath Lambert, almost a month after a 15-s...