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Appointment at Specialist Liability Services.
Services Ron Weatherby has joined Specialist Liability Services as a director. He will be operati...
Appointment at Folgate.
Folgate Roger Gray has joined Folgate as deputy commercial underwriting manager with special respons...
Forbes snaps up Bradstock.
South African broker Alexander Forbes, which last month unveiled the details of a £100m expansion in...
Adams and another v Rhymney Valley District Council 20 July 2000.
Court of Appeal Alocal authority, which installed double glazed windows that had locks with removabl...
Gerling UK goes online.
Gerling UK is to launch a series of internet-based products, starting with the unveiling of an onlin...
EH joins Wren on three-way cover.
Lloyd's broker Edgar Hamilton has teamed up with BRIT Insurance subsidiary Wren Legal to develop a n...
Help the any Aged cover launched.
Help the Aged Insurance Services is to launch what it claims is the first Healthcare Cash Plan with ...
Miles more mileage.
Broker Miles Smith has moved to new offices at Birchin Court. The company, which went into liquidati...
Appointment at Alliance Insurance.
Management Alliance has recruited Kelly Minnis as an account manager to support its growth and its a...
Not much life in this site.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Appliance of D&G.
Appliance breakdown insurer Domestic & General has been encouraged by the reaction to its internet s...
Can CII rise to training test?
The decision by the Institute of Financial Services, an offshoot of the Chartered Institute of Banke...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is never one to turn down a free drink and was happy to raise a glass of champagne at last wee...
Taylor quits ALARM.
Liz Taylor, chief executive of the Association of Local Authority Risk Managers, is leaving the asso...
Risk portal goes live.
Independent Insurance's internet portal for brokers - www.manage risk.co.uk - has gone live. It prov...
Survey highlights distribution fears.
Over half the chief executives at Europe's major life insurers believe the main strategic problem fa...
K/S Merc-Skandia XXXXII v Lloyd's Underwriters 23 June 2000.
High Court A third party claimed against the insured. In support of an application regarding the app...
EU kicks up a fuss.
Football insurance could change dramatically if the European Union decides to abolish the players' t...
SA rules for UK courts.
Schalk Willem Burger Lubbe (suing as administrator of the estate of Rachel Jacoba Lubbe) & others v Cape 20 July 2000 House of Lords.
New open market for solicitors' professional indemnity insurance.
The new open market for solicitors' professional indemnity insurance got underway last week, with an...
Reliance in buyout talks with Candover
US insurer Reliance Insurance Company is in exclusive talks with buyout specialist Candover Investmen...
Cherry picking tarnishes insurers' image.
Sophisticated underwriting techniques are a double-edged sword, and there are worrying signs the ins...
Safe & sound.
Never has there been a greater need for the security of D&O cover. Directors and officers are in a vulnerable position regarding the limit of their personal liability, and changes in the law, mean ring-fencing potential risks is vital.
Old Mutual losses.
South African insurer Old Mutual has recorded disappointing results for the first six months ended 3...