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PXRe denies exit plans
Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRe has finally denied that it intends to leave Lloyd's (Post Magazine 14 Se...
ALP to enter the personal lines market.
Abbey Legal Protection is set to make a push into the personal lines market, with a number of employ...
Mynd your EC.
IT solutions and services provider Mynd, is to launch a series of programmes to enable users to comp...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Charles Lennox has been appointed motor trade underwriting manager and will be based in the company'...
Depressing year for cargo.
Kevan Gielty, chairman of the Cargo Committee, presented feedback from IUMI's cargo members, which r...
Appointment at The Beckett Group.
The Beckett Group has added another senior financial adviser to its team. Steven Wellard joins the K...
Appointment at The Leisure Consortium at Lloyd's.
Iain Ward previously underwriter-contingency is now contingency underwriting manager; Jane Todd has ...
Appointment at Legal Costs Assessors.
Stephen Pitt has joined the Bristol office of Legal Costs Assessors as deputy managing director. He ...
Court in the Act.
Marcus Alcock asks law firms what advice they would give to insurers in advance of the Human Rights Act going live.
Lloyd's may lose PXRe.
Troubled Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRe is understood to be planning an exit from Lloyd's only four ye...
Orphan move faces challenge.
Axa could face legal action over the distribution of its £1.7bn orphan funds following a decision by...
A question of rights.
Kevin Fletcher answers the most frequently asked questions concerning the implementation of the new Human Rights Act, ahead of its introduction on 2 October.
Premiums decline rapidly.
Marine insurance premiums declined in 1999 according to statistics presented by Tore Forsmo, managin...
Travel online.
Nationwide Building Society has put its travel insurance policies online at its site www.nationwide....
JLT global tie-up.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson hopes to boost its corporate broking and risk consultancy business wit...
GISC slams training body.
The General Insurance Standards Council has slammed the Institute of Financial Services for claiming...
Capital approaches.
GE Capital, the financial services arm of American conglomerate General Electric, is reported to hav...
Challenging times to come.
To gauge the concerns of the UK's insurance claims managers in the light of recent legislative and technological advances, PM conducted a survey and Alex Broad analyses the results.
PenServer launch.
Claybrook, a division of employee services company Hogg Robinson, has signed a deal with technology ...
Jewellers venture.
Watkins Syndicate at Lloyd's has launched an e-insurance venture for jewellers and insurance brokers...
Time to toughen up.
Fraud is a constant menace for insurers, whether it be opportunistic or the result of organised crim...
IFAs cry for help.
In response to the high demand from IFAs for practical help with their reviews of free-standing addi...
Co-operative tested.
Co-operative Insurance Society is set to explain to the government and business community next month...
Holman returns.
Holman Insurance Brokers is set to re-enter the professional indemnity market three years after its ...