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Commercial risks database next possible move for IFB
The Insurance Fraud Bureau could look to build a database on commercial risks as its next logical st...
Appointment at Mathieson-Ingham Adjusting
Elaine Johnson has joined Mathieson-Ingham Adjusting's head office as a case manager. She will have ...
Insurers dealt twin blow by clawback and Ogden
Claims costs received a double blow this week after new rules potentially adding hundreds of million...
Appointment at CNA
CNA has appointed Chris Hurford-Green as senior development underwriter, personal accident and trave...
Appointment at Barlow Lyde and Gilbert
Neil McGilchrist is joining Barlow Lyde and Gilbert's aerospace team from Gide Loyrette Nouel, follo...
Heritage in income boom
Heritage Underwriting Agency's net premium income increased by £62.1m to £262.6m in 2006. The increa...
Liv Vic bags Britannia in bid for rescue supremacy
Liverpool Victoria has added 300,000 customers to its roster following the £36m acquisition of Brita...
What the papers said this week
Financial Times HSBC plans to double the proportion of profits it makes from insurance by 2012. T...
GAB Robins promotion
GAB Robins has promoted George Bentley to the role of client services director for its UK operations...
ABI's young driver reply
The Association of British Insurers has submitted a written response to the Department for Transport...
Highway reveals Espinoza
Highway has appointed Frank Espinoza as its motorcycle underwriter. Reporting directly to motor prod...
KPMG snaps up Hicks
KPMG Forensic has appointed David Hicks as its new head of forensic insurance. Mr Hicks joins from D...
UK brokers singled out in EC transparency row
Broker transparency has come under the spotlight again as lawyers claimed policyholders would be qui...
Appointment at Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander
Steve Robinson has joined Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander as development director, a part-time non-...
Appointment at Media/Professional Insurance
Media/Professional Insurance has appointed Rob Jones as senior underwriter, joining from Hiscox, and...
Colossus five-year licence
Groupama Insurances has signed a five-year licence for Colossus, the personal injury claims solution...
Appointment at Aon
Aon has appointed Shaun Cooper as network risk consultant. Mr Cooper previously worked in underwriti...
CMGL hires disease expert
CMGL has hired Jim Prew as head of disease claims, following a stint managing the disease claims uni...
Appointment at JK Buckenham
JK Buckenham, the reinsurance broking platform of the Hyperion Insurance Group, has appointed Ian Sm...
Appointment at TT Club
The TT Club has appointed Laurence Jones as manager of risk assessment. Based in Sydney, Australia, ...
Swiss Re calls for claims index as Kyrill costs forecast at $5-10bn
Swiss Re is advocating the establishment of a market-loss index for natural-catastrophe risks to aid...
RAA calls for single US reinsurance regulator
The Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) has called for the US to have a single reinsurance regu...
Bermuda hikes registration fees 260% to pay BMA staff
The Bermudian government has passed a bill increasing Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) fees for bank...
Paris Re launches new Bermudian sidecar
Paris Re, the Trident III-backed company that recently took on Axa Re's business, has formed a new B...