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Chubb enhances lines
Chubb Insurance has enhanced its various mid- and high-net worth product lines, with the changes set...
Omega plans fundraising
Omega Insurance Holdings plans to raise £130m to capitalise on improvements in market conditions. Th...
Appointment at Private Health Partnership
The Private Health Partnership has established a Southern base in Hove, West Sussex. As part of this...
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny had an encounter of the star-struck kind while out for drinks at the uber-posh Soho Hotel with...
Appointment at Glacier Group
Glacier Group has appointed Andreas Zdrenyk as head of group risk management. Based in the group's h...
UK beat Japan in 2007
Figures released from International Financial Services London claim that the UK insurance market ove...
Litigation ends
London market reinsurers have ended their Commercial Court litigation with Korea National Insurance ...
What the papers said this week
Sunday Times Professional insurance fees for Irish law firms are doubling. The collapse of two ...
Looking back
Looking through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance ne...
Appointment at Ace
Ace Europe has appointed Jim Duncan as property and casualty country manager for Ireland, based in i...
Appointment at AIG
AIG UK has made a number of appointments. Chris Waterman is rejoining the UK region within the energ...
Gocompare adds brands
Price comparison website Gocompare has added nine more brands to its car insurance panel. The new br...
Health and Safety Executive criticised
Iwan Borszcz, casualty claims director, Zurich, raised the point that the Health and Safety Executiv...
Impact of migrant workforce
Roy Hebburn, technical claims manager at Allianz, asked Judith Hackitt, chair of the Health and Safe...
Quinn adds 500 jobs
Five hundred new jobs are set to be created over the next four years following the opening of Quinn ...
Liberty plans product recall for London market
Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe will underwrite product recall insurance from the first quarter of 2...
Appointment at Ansvar
Ansvar has appointed Marcus Booth as its new underwriting manager. Mr Booth joined Royal and Sun All...
Zurich readies itself for rival 'meltdown' with action plan
Zurich has put an action plan in place, including a list of business it would be interested in acqui...
Appointment at Acumus
Insurance broker Acumus has appointed Claire Johnson as head of operations and Kate Sutton as accoun...
Call for insurers to help promote best practice
The Health and Safety Executive has called on insurers to help promote best practice ahead of launch...
HSE still needs promotion despite fall
Health and safety, asbestos claims, the rise in property fraud and the role of the media were all on the agenda in the last Claims Club meeting of 2008. Louise Meeson reports
Pexton resigns
The board of Heritage Managing Agency, a member of Bermuda-based Argo Group has announced that its c...
Hiscox US expansion
Hiscox is shedding a small specialist insurance and reinsurance team in Bermuda, but plans to expand...
Climate Wise urges focus
Climate Wise chairman Andrew Torrance addressed delegates at a United Nations climate change confere...