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Subsidence focus.
Post Magazine's first technical masterclass looked at the problems of investigating and reserving for...
easyclaims.com denies market exit.
Internet-based personal injury specialist easyclaims.com has denied it is considering pulling out of...
Technical hitch.
Last week's Post Magazine round table highlighted some important issues, claims Theo Duchen, particularly relating to the problems generated by the use of technology in the troubled commercial lines sector.
Strategic focus points to good future for brokers.
I enjoyed reading the article "High-flying Specialists" (see below), because I believe there are terr...
Bachmann joins NU.
Dublin-based Norwich Union International is looking to enter new markets and sell a broader range of...
Fortis records loss.
Belgian-Dutch insurer Fortis has recorded a 5% fall in profits for the first three months of this ye...
Allianz profits rise.
German insurer Allianz, reporting its first quarter profits for the first time, said premium income ...
NU panel beaters.
The announcement last week of the winners and losers, following insurer Norwich Union's loss adjust...
Home rule.
The Homes Bill's progress through Parliament has been disrupted by the election, but Labour has made it clear it intends to reintroduce legislation to speed up house buying if it is re-elected today. Liability insurers face the prospect of more and…
Hannover on the up.
German group Hannover Re increased its net profit in 2000 by 81% to £293m, thanks largely to a cut i...
Friends Provident votes to float
Members of mutual life insurer Friends Provident voted 97% in favour of floating the company on the s...
Broker assault off.
Bristol-based independent healthcare broker Insurety has temporarily abandoned its plans to make a ma...
PIA fines Westerby.
The Personal Investment Authority has fined Leicester firm Westerby Investment Management £20,000, o...
Towergate makes army move.
Towergate has acquired the military insurance arm of employee services specialists Hogg Robinson, ma...
Ace move gains Momentum.
Ace Europe's minority shareholding venture Momentum Underwriting Management is set to exceed its tar...
Speedy action needed on lead cases.
The indications this week are that lead is set to become the new asbestos for insurers, as a result o...
LMP slips up.
The 1 July renewals in the London market will no longer utilise new standardised slip wordings put t...
Lead liability: fears mount.
The possibility of the insurance industry facing another multi-million-pound compensation headache -...
What the Papers Say.
THE GUARDIAN The magnificent, but increasingly veteran, flying machines of the second world war c...
Learning the hard way.
Stress is emerging as a major problem among teachers in schools, but this is only one of the risks local authorities have to address, as they have learned from several recent high-profile court cases, says Veronica Cowan.
Pensions sales up.
Sales of new life and pensions products was buoyant in the first quarter of 2001, according to new f...
Slow and steady.
The numbers of women represented at all levels of the traditionally male-dominated arena of insurance is rising, albeit slowly. Richard Adams finds out what is attracting them into the sector.
Bland wins SBS deal.
Bland Bankart has won the contract to administer a household insurance scheme for Swansea Building S...
GE Frankona dumps cargo & freight.
GE Frankona Reinsurance is withdrawing from the UK cargo & freight liability market, worth some £18m...