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Zurich boosts Irish distribution with agency buy
Zurich's acquisition of Irish underwriting agency Wrightway is aimed at giving the insurer a boost i...
Independent trial: from southwark crown court
After all the drama of tears and health scares, the Independent Trial has reverted to a game of cat ...
Catlin downplays UK market performance
Catlin has downplayed the significance of a $32m (£15.8m) increase in its UK business' underwriting ...
Investment return bolsters Highway
Highway has managed to squeeze a further £4m in profit before tax for the first half of 2007 from ri...
Insurers' rail claim relief
Claims arising from February's Grayrigg rail crash have failed to break through Network Rail's capti...
Appointment at Celerant
Celerant Consulting has appointed of Tony Tarquini as its new head of financial services for Europe....
Looking back
Looking through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance ne...
Appointment at Novae
Bill Edrich, Novae Group's medical malpractice underwriting manager, has been appointed underwriting...
Appointment at Premex
Premex has appointed Alan Price as team leader in the information system department. Mr Price will b...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical has appointed David Davies as chief actuary for its general insurance business. Mr Da...
Perkins Slade promotion
Perkins Slade has promoted Mark Ford to associate director with the responsibility of broker relatio...
Glacier Re reports rise
Glacier Re has reported net income after tax for the six months ended 30 June 2007 was $33m (£16.2m)...
Motor trade specialist admits bid interest
Motor trade specialist the Fyfe Group has denied it is up for sale despite admitting it has received...
RBSI boss insists it is not anti-aggregator
The boss of Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance has hit back at claims that the group is anti-aggregato...
Allianz boosts motor panel
Allianz Insurance has increased the size of its motor fraud investigations panel but warned other ar...
Penny Black's insurance week
Hot on the heels of the completion of its long and very hard-fought takeover of Converium, Scor's ch...
Appointment at London and European
London and European has recruited Diarmuid Bradley as a non-executive director to its main board. Mr...
Firms called to action
The magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods and wildfires - whi...
Ecclesiastical start-up
David Leavesley has joined Ecclesiastical to launch a new group company offering customers an indepe...
What the papers said this week
Mail on Sunday Small businesses are to be hit with a 5% rise in their commercial insurance, fol...
THB appoints new broker
Specialist broker THB Group has expanded its London market capabilities with the appointment of Perr...
CNA looks abroad for staff stop gap
Global insurance giant CNA has admitted it may have to parachute staff from Canada into the UK, afte...
Aquilo closes IT Solutions
Aquilo has announced it is to close one of its trading subsidiaries after failing to find a buyer. I...
MD quits to start firm
The UK arm of disaster recovery giant Belfor was hit last week by the resignation of its managing di...