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Reg Brown joins Kiln board
Former Lloyd's underwriter and immediate past president of the Chartered Insurance Institute Reg Brow...
CNA Re London downgraded
Rating agency AM Best has lowered its rating of CNA Re's London subsidiary, raising doubts about the ...
Everest Re income boost
Bermuda-based Everest Re Group saw its earnings increase by almost a quarter in the second quarter of...
St Paul Re hit by cats
St Paul Re was hit by $30m of catastrophe losses in the second quarter of this year, $20m of which we...
CNA Re rating lowered
Rating agency AM Best has lowered its rating of CNA Re's London subsidiary. AM Best said it had low...
Insurers face new year crisis claims salvage company
Insurers face a crisis on the 1 January 2002, when the EC's End of Life Vehicle Directive will classi...
Date set for ruling on IIB challenge to GISC
The Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal will rule on the Institute of Insurance Brokers' challenge...
Indie collapse costs Baldwins £1m
Baldwins Industrial Services has become the latest company to announce the failure of Independent Ins...
RenRe income up 13%
Bermudian property catastrophe reinsurer RenaissanceRe has reported a 13% increase in its operating i...
Marlborough goes to court in travel insurance dispute
Lloyd's insurer Marlborough is going to the High Court today in a bid to determine how many travel i...
Lloyd's grants access to first independent US brokers
Lloyd's today announced that the first ever independent US brokers have been granted access to the Lo...
Equitas fears confirmed
Concerns over the level of asbestos claims at Equitas, the company set up by Lloyd's to reinsure and ...
Stress claim falls at forseeability hurdle
An office manager who brought a claim against her employees for work-related stress has had her case ...
Government shakes up employment tribunals
New proposals to radically reform employment tribunals were announced today by Employment Relations M...
Equitas adds £1.7bn ($2.4bn) to asbestos reserves
Equitas, which Lloyd's set up to reinsure and run off its syndicates' liabilities for 1992 and earlie...
Hannover Re reveals first quarterly figures
Gross written premiums received by Hannover Re totalled Euro 2.4bn in the first quarter of 2001 and a...
Playing the Ace.
Marcus Alcock seeks the story behind the headlines from Gary Schmalzriedt, president and chief executive officer of Ace's European Group.
The Risk Management Award
By involving every one of its 4000 staff in its risk management programme, East Lothian Council has saved nearly £2m - and made the area safer too, writes Lynn Rouse.
The Loss Adjuster Award
McLarens Toplis - the UK arm of which is now owned by outsourcing specialist Capita - decided its Property Management Portfolio had to be accessible whenever disaster struck, as Anthony Gould reports.
Reinsurance Innovation of the Year
GE Frankona Re took careful note of users' needs when it designed its online reinsurance tool for brokers. The easy-to-use system has already paid off in financial terms, reports Janina Clark.
Ross to chair ABI.
Mike Ross, chief executive of Scottish Widows, has been elected as chairman of the Association of Br...
Direct teamwork.
Insurance and risk management group Criterion has teamed up with IBM to develop an internet-based pr...
Giving staff the skills to excel.
The emphasis on customer service in today's industry makes it more important than ever for firms to grasp the training nettle. Jane Bernstein looks at the options for brokers and insurers.
Customer Care Award
A staff fitness programme with a difference is bringing swift change to business practices at Zurich Personal Insurances. And the customers are the winners, says Jane Bernstein.