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Appointment at Willis.
Property/casualty specialist Frank Rieder has left his position as vice-president of reinsurance bro...
Arig losses.
Arig Re, the reinsurance subsidiary of the Arab Insurance Group of Bahrain, has reported a net loss ...
Appointment at CNA Re.
Tim Madden (below), executive vice-president and chief executive officer of CNA Re's treaty operatio...
Jardine China under threat.
Jardine Insurance Brokers (JIB) has said that it is to enter into talks with senior staff from the C...
Benfield Greig withholds IT system.
Reinsurance broker Benfield Greig is holding back the release of a new IT-based settlement system be...
No Net benefit.
Benfield Greig's radical, new Internet-based system could transform reinsurance relationships, but the market is not ready for it. Adrian Leonard reports.
Appointment at CCR.
Caisse Centrale de Reassurance (CCR) has appointed Robert Zanin as senior facultative underwriter in...
Chartered Insurance Institute Conference 1974.
Ahead of next month's Chartered Insurance Institute conference we look back at the issues of the day...
Uniysys gets a Life.
Scottish Life has chosen Uniysys storage and software systems as part of its strategy to redevelop i...
Appointment at Navigators & General.
Rod Daniel has been made director of yacht and motor boat insurer Navigators & General. His appointm...
Finns' hit list.
Finnish mutual insurer Suomi has drawn up a shortlist of potential merger partners, with Pohjola, Sa...
e-stakeholder online.
Pensions software specialist Chambers Townsend Consultancy has launched an Internet system for manag...
In need of a transfusion.
Grant Ellis believes fresh young blood needs to be attracted to the insurance industry if it is to move forward successfully.
Sun goes down on 500 workers.
Sun Life of Canada is to make 500 of its 1600 UK staff redundant following a strategic review of the...
BRIT's buy-up plan.
BRIT Insurance Holdings intends to acquire the 70.01% of catastrophe specialist BRIT Insurance (form...
Breakfast briefing.
Environmental Insurance specialist Certa UK is to hold a breakfast briefing aimed at insurance broke...
Co-op premium cut.
The Co-operative Insurance Society has announced that for the fifth successive year it is cutting ho...
Free online quotes.
Cardiff-based Composite Legal Expenses has launched a new free PC-based online insurance quotation s...
Wrangle over compulsory purchase cash.
A freehold owner and occupier of a property in Liverpool lived in part of his premises and let the r...
Heavyweights in online debate.
E-commerce, insurance regulation and cross-border trading were debated online at a fringe meeting at...
Remote control.
As the IT parameters in insurance are pushed further afield, John Sansbury looks at the role of call centres in the fast changing face of the insurance market.
Who's who at Pru.
In a shake-up of senior staff at Prudential, the managing director of Prudential Corporate Pensions ...
Fears over cost of running GISC's regime.
The costs of handling complaints under the regime proposed by the General Insurance Standards Counci...
Pay day for New Year staff.
Insurers are keeping tight-lipped on the subject of staffing levels over the 2000 date change, despi...