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Andersen signing off.
The proposal for Wilde Sapte to join the Andersen Worldwide International Network of Law firms has b...
IFA Sales.
UNUM has launched point-of-sale software designed to simplify the sales process for IFAs. ProductPar...
Look and do touch.
Lloyd's TSB General Insurance has selected IT systems specialists ICL to trial kiosk services promot...
ARCS Systems launch.
ARCS Systems has launched a low cost, entry level estimating and imaging package system which enable...
Appointment at Insurance Institute of Dublin.
Adrienne O'Sullivan, business manager at DAS, has become the youngest person ever to be elected as p...
Year 2000 - a people problem.
The millennium problem is about malfunctioning machines, isn't it? Not according to Richard Radevsky, who argues that people's behaviour is more of an issue for insurers to worry about.
Football fans face foul time with thieves.
France '98 is likely to be a time of rich pickings for thieves and pickpockets, yet thousands of Bri...
Appointment at DJ Freemans.
James Pilgrim-Morris and Mark Everiss have both been made partners in the insurance and reinsurance ...
KWELM progress.
Creditors of the insolvent KWELM group of insurance companies are to receive a fifth payment through...
First quarter pre-tax profit fall.
The first quarter of 1998 saw pre-tax profit at UK broking group Sedgwick fall to £38.3m ($62.7m) fr...
Terra Nova up in Q1.
Bermudian insurance and reinsurance group Terra Nova boosted its first quarter 1998 operating income...
RAA officers.
The Reinsurance Association of America has elected James Gustafson, chairman and chief executive of ...
An alternative viewpoint.
Cologne Re's Milan Vukelic tells Alex Beatty why he is unimpressed with the market's craze for securitisation.
Paris Partner.
Bermudian reinsurer PartnerRe has transferred executive vice-president Graham Dimmock to Paris. Mr D...
Denning retires.
David Denning retired as chairman of Copenhagen Re (UK) last month. Mr Denning, 65, spent 24 years a...
Year 2000 - Rumbles of thunder.
The computer problems caused by the year 2000 may not have been the central topic of any of the sess...
Feeling the heat at Rims.
This year's Rims conference saw the largest ever international delegation, but dissatisfaction from risk managers. Janina Clark reports.
Profit up 45% at Swiss Re.
The acquisitions of Mercantile & General Re and Unione Italiana di Riassicurazione pushed Swiss Re's...
Poland non-life cessions up.
Rising loss ratios and capital shortages have forced Polish non-life insurers to make even greater u...
Willis in Russia.
UK broker Willis Corroon is arranging the insurance for a $2bn construction project in Russia. The p...
Manulife creates German subsidiary.
Manulife Financial, Canada's largest mutual life insurer, has opened an independent reinsurance subs...
Going for gold.
Toni Stowe examines the reinsurance of the growing high net worth market.
The US goes captive crazy.
The number of US onshore captive domiciles may be soaring, but few of them are justifying their existence. Corinne Ramming reports.
General Re record despite soft market.
Operating income at US reinsurance giant General Re rose by nearly 10% to a record $250m in the firs...