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Appointment at Axa
Axa has hired Darren Cornish as head of claims experience. He joins the customer experience team h...
LV launches new portal
LV has launched a new commercial package trading website. The 'LV Broker Gateway' portal will be ava...
Fitch downgrades AIG
Fitch Ratings has downgraded various AIG ratings, including the issuer default rating to 'BBB' from ...
Relationship cemented
Property Consortium UK has maintained its eight-year relationship with UIA by remaining as a supplie...
Appointment at ULR
Accident management specialist ULR has recruited Paul Cosh , founder of Hero Insurance Services and...
Homeserve jettisons emergency services
Homeserve has put its emergency services division up for sale, despite spending more than £74.7m on ...
Shortlist is revealed
After much deliberation, the shortlist for this year's highly prestigious Post Claims Club Rising St...
MGA consolidation tipped as trade body wins favour
APC has revealed that it is in the early stages of discussions with underwriting agencies with a vie...
Biba Conference - Axa chief pours praise on "outstanding" FSA
The Financial Services Authority's performance is "outstanding" in comparison to its continental pee...
Insurancewide wins in court
Insurancewide will continue to be VAT exempt after winning a High Court battle last Friday. The jud...
Appointment at Groupama
Groupama Insurances has promoted Stephen Teeling to counter-fraud manager. After five years within...
NU revising personal lines
Norwich Union is revising its personal lines pricing model for brokers and has plans to share profit...
Giles restructures in Scotland and North
Giles has reshaped its management structure in Scotland and the North of England in a bid to drive f...
Towergate assigned Moody's rating
Towergate Partnership has been assigned a credit rating by Moody's, after requesting it following th...
Rousing speech
Erin Brockovich ended this year's British Insurance Brokers' Association conference in Manchester wi...
Biba Conference - ELD advantage is urged
Brokers were warned against allowing rivals to steal competitive advantage when it comes to informin...
Market still investing in technology despite downturn
Insurance companies are continuing to invest in new technology despite the economic downturn, it has...
Argo merges US divisions
Argo Group, the Bermudian (re)insurer, it has merged its specialty niche insurers, Grocers Insurance and Great Central Insurance, under the brand name Argo Select.
Ace appoints vice-chairman
Ace Limited, the Switzerland-based reinsurer has said that Brian Dowd, CEO, Insurance – North America, has been named to the additional position of vice chairman, Ace Limited and Ace Group Holdings.
First American launches new fire product
First American Spatial Solutions, the spatial and natural hazard risk solutions subsidiary of US company First American Corporation has launched its Fire Protection Classification (FPC) solution.
Medicess welcomes UKRC standards
Medicess has welcomed the introduction of the UK Rehabilitation Council's standards.
Post pick of the week
Reporter Leigh Jackson looks at the major news stories from this week's Post: FSA authorisations hit low point; Norwich Union brings jobs back to the UK after closing Indian service centre; Homeserve puts emergency services division up for sale; Groupama…
Fitch gloomy on Russian insurance sector
Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'Negative Rating' outlook to the Russian insurance sector, reflecting the expected negative impact of deteriorating insurance market conditions due to the rapid slowdown in Russia's economy and continuing volatility of…
AIG to pay $800m to damaged investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulator, has said that a federal court has approved the distribution of more than $843m to harmed investors in the American International Group, Inc. from a Fair Fund that the SEC established after the…