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What the papers said this week
THE MAIL Directors of the insurance company at the centre of the Paddington rail crash compensation...
Imarket heralded as insurer "weapon"
Groupama chairman Francois Xavier-Boisseau claimed the insurer backed imarket initiative will be the...
S&P: syndicate performance worsens
Only Atrium and Wellington have bettered their performance in Standard & Poor's 2003 Lloyd's Syndica...
Cox reports increases in profit
London Market News
Central Fund to get extra support
Lloyd's may seek to secure additional security for the Central Fund next year, according to chief ex...
Zurich legal panel slashed by over half
Zurich is set to slash its legal panel by over half in a shake-up of its present arrangement, which ...
CILA and CII events to merge
Michael Burnett, president of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, confirmed that the institut...
Capita: new FSA solutions
Capita Consulting, the management consultancy arm of Capita Group, has adopted a business process so...
Halifax General Insurance selects Crawford & Co
Halifax General Insurance Services has selected Crawford & Company UK to handle its overflow propert...
Appointment at Ace European Group
Susan Rowland has joined Ace European Group's multinational casualty department in Manchester as an ...
Appointment at Community Broking Group
Manchester-based broker Community Broking Group has made two senior level appointments. David Worsle...
NU replaces Eric Galbraith
Norwich Union has replaced Hill House Hammond managing director Eric Galbraith with NU intermediary ...
Smart and Cook acquire insurance broking business
Smart and Cook has acquired the £1m insurance broking business of Adams Financial Services in Lincol...
Brit aims to grow its subsidiary
Brit Insurance Holdings is likely to maintain its underwriting capacity at Lloyd's in 2004, while lo...
Stephen Cane criticises Treasury
Stephen Cane, chairman of the International Underwriting Association and chief executive of Alea Lon...
Glass's Information Services forms repairer group
Glass's Information Services has formed a repairer consultative group for customers of its estimatin...
The Davis Group signs licence agreement
Broker The Davis Group has signed a licence agreement with Sirius Financial Systems to use the suppl...
New entrant targets liability market
Irish insurance giant Quinn Direct has entered the English liability market and aims to write £100m-...
FSA plans could see capital exodus
The UK insurance industry could face an exodus of capital to offshore centres like Gibraltar, unless...
Lloyd's consortium aims to fill terrorism gap
A consortium of Lloyd's insurers has stepped in to offer a new form of terrorist insurance to fill a...
ABI seeks to counter claims in Datamonitor report
The Association of British Insurers has sought to counter claims made in a Datamonitor report last w...
UK insurers fail to keep pace with terror threat
The UK insurance industry is failing to keep pace with modern terrorist threats, such as chemical an...
Handover may see GISC complaints lost
Consumers could see complaints being lost in the system when statutory general insurance regulation ...
Penny Black's insurance week
Andy Homer might claim to be visionary when it comes to insurance but he also showed sporting foresi...