News
Appointment at Tillinghast-Towers Perrin.
Vaughan Jenkins has been taken on as a consultant within the financial services practice at actuaria...
Claims is no longer core.
Change, technology and combining the two were constant themes at this year's Chartered Insurance Institute Conference. Post Magazine was there.
Up for discussion.
Home-working, staff retention and the role of the internet were just some of the topics hotly debate...
Birchall leaves Independent.
One of Independent Insurance's five regional development managers has resigned from the company. ...
Aloof and arrogant.
The CII is set to produce a plan to address the problem of declining membership, according to its in...
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...