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Broker admits deceiving client.
The managing director of a West Midlands insurance broker used a client's money to reduce his compan...
AIRMIC 99 exhibitors.
We invited most exhibitors to provide details of their companies and stands. Here are the replies we received.
Survival instinct.
The insurance world of the 1990s has left loss adjusters as an endangered species. Andrew Westgate says the profession must go back to its roots to avoid extinction.
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Two of a kind.
Adrian Leonard finds both Lloyd's and the London company market going from strength to strength.
Sowing seeds of discontent.
Jeremy Rifkin introduces this month's Lunch Forum debate on the liability issues surrounding GM crops.
Making waves on the Internet.
Mark Birrell explains how Lloyd's underwriters set their sights on a virtual cargo market.
Lloyd's to Norway.
Lloyd's has been authorised to transact most classes of non-life business in Norway following the re...
US merger mania to spread.
Consolidation looks set to continue in the US reinsurance market as Bermudian insurance group XL Cap...
Reveal now or pay later.
John Butler focuses on the duty of disclosure and its impact on liability.
Greenberg promoted.
Jeffrey Greenberg (above) has been elected president and chief executive officer of broker Marsh & M...
IT networks' plans imminent.
The future of the three leading electronic insurance networks is expected to be revealed in the next...
Aon pushes share income higher.
Aon Corporation, the holding company that includes the world's second largest insurance broking oper...
First Lloyd's in Miami.
Bankside Services (Americas), the first underwriting service company to be set up by a Lloyd's agenc...
Dual-trigger policy from Tempest Re.
Bermudian catastrophe reinsurer Tempest Re has sold what it claims is the first reinsurance contract...
Millennium monitoring.
Larissa Knepper outlines the rating agency approach to insurers' Y2K exposures.
Allen joins US Re.
Robert Allen has joined US Re as assistant vice president. He will specialise in products for malpra...
Ace has purchased $1.25bn of reinsurance.
Bermudian insurance group Ace has purchased $1.25bn of reinsurance from Berkshire Hathaway's Nationa...
Making the most of IT.
The reinsurance industry is - at last - on the verge of a new electronic age, but Tony Illinesi asks whether companies will be ready.
A new class of risk.
Digital risk needs to be acknowledged as part of everyday business life to limit potential claims, argue Catrin Turner and Graham Brown.
Jenkins heads up IUA marine team.
Former Institute of London Underwriters chairman Nigel Jenkins is to chair the International Underwr...
Partner Re head Haag urges action on price.
Herbert Haag, president and chief executive of Bermudian reinsurer PartnerRe, has sharply criticised...
Hampden champions private capital after latest buy.
The Hampden Group has become the largest agency in Lloyd's for private capital following its purchas...
Space for Limit.
Lloyd's investment trust Limit has announced an agreement in principle to buy a 48% interest in SATE...