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Helphire set to sign deals.
Credit hire company Helphire, which last week issued a profits warning after a backlog of cases thro...
Metcalf new Brockbank CEO
Bermuda-based XL Capital has appointed Nicholas Metcalf as chief executive of its UK-based subsidiary...
Goshawk up as rates harden
Goshawk Insurance Holdings has recorded improved results for the first half of this year, with gross ...
MUM resurrects Cigna business with Ace backing
Ace Europe is to invest in a minority shareholding in new start up, Momentum Underwriting Management,...
EU directive to impact brokers
The European Commission published its long awaited draft directive on insurance mediation this week i...
Lloyd's goes for volume via Chatham
Lloyd's has confirmed that it will launch a new central service centre next year in Chatham, Kent. Th...
CGNU sells US arm for knock-down price
CGNU has sold its US general insurance business to White Mountains Insurance Group, for a knock down ...
XL Capital forms weather risk unit
Bermuda-based XL Capital has formed a unit to provide weather risk (re)insurance and financial produc...
Big premium rise for US reinsurers
A group of 33 members of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) wrote $12.3bn of property and c...
Green light for Trenwick merger
The shareholders of Trenwick Group, LaSalle Re and LaSalle Holdings have agreed to a merger of the bu...
Cox profits slump
Cox Insurance has recorded a pre-tax loss of £600 000 for the first six months of this year, down fr...
Members better than corporates at Lloyd's
Syndicates managed by members' agents have consistently out-performed corporate syndicates of Lloyd's...
Zurich Global Energy appoints reinsurance manager
Zurich Global Energy, a subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services which provides risk management for th...
Alexander Forbes invests in Britannia
Financial services group Alexander Forbes UK is to acquire a 20% stake in National Britannia, a safe...
Candover pulls out of Reliance acquisition
Venture capitalist Candover has pulled out negotiations to buy the UK-based and European operation of...
Spencer's Mark.
MarkerStudy, the new broker support vehicle set up by ex-Edgar Hamilton director Kevin Spencer, is t...
Appointment at Dial Direct Group.
The Dial Direct Group has appointed Anna Bishop as its first e-commerce marketing manager. Ms Bishop...
SVB - profits begin at home.
SVB Underwriting Services has launched a new product to help brokers profit from the rising number o...
PWC compares tax.
An international comparison of insurance taxation rules for both general and life insurance business...
Eversheds relocates.
National law firm and insurance specialist Eversheds is shutting its Middlesbrough operation, leavin...
Fastrack for lawyers.
Small Liverpool chambers 42 Castle Street has won the contract for indemnity work worth an estimated...
Appointment at DJ Marshall & Others.
Lloyd's Syndicate 839, DJ Marshall & Others has recruited Simon Abbott to the position of deputy und...
Hiscox to form joint venture with Leon Eeckman.
Lloyd's insurer Hiscox is to form a joint venture with Leon Eeckman of Belgium to tap into that coun...
Grounds for sporting goals hit snags.
As the country looks forward optimistically for what in recent times has seemed completely unattaina...