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Hidden charges?
Zurich Financial Services UK life chief executive Ray Greenshields has called on insurers to stop be...
Appointment at Peoples Choice.
Peoples Choice has made Mark Jackson an internal auditor based in the company's Manchester office. H...
RSA in £26m disposal
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance is to sell off its Royal & Sun Alliance Trust Company to the acquisitive...
Appointment at Inreon.
Inreon, an independent company founded by Munich Re, Swiss Re, Internet Capital Group and Accenture ...
Appointment at Alan Boswell.
Richard Beevor has joined Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers. He has spent 19 years in a range of roles ...
Cox sues RSA for £2m over poor reference.
Ex-Sun Alliance manager Michael Cox is seeking £2m compensation from the insurer, after a job refere...
NU quits bus and coach sector.
Norwich Union has denied it will move out of any other lines of commercial motor insurance, followin...
IUA remains rudderless
The International Underwriting Association has postponed the appointment of a new chairman to succeed...
Independent denies sale.
The acting chief executive of Independent Insurance Garth Ramsay, has denied speculation the company...
Renewals delay.
A shortage of regional underwriters accepting liability risks is leading to severe delays with proce...
Do new qualifications FIT the professional bill?
I was interested to read Dr Sandy Scott's comments on the "alphabet soup" that insurance professiona...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Churchill Insurance no doubt rued the day it poured its pounds into sponsorship of Crystal Palace th...
Appointment at Praxis Partners.
Praxis Partners has appointed three new partners to the firm. These include Jane Olive, the training...
Open for business?
The Indian market is opening up to foreign interests and now is a good time for insurers to dip their toes in the market, ideally allied with an Indian partner that knows the ropes, says Saibal Dasgupta in an update on her article last year (PM, 9…
A poor Finish?
Finland's second largest insurer Pohjola has predicted that an increase in foreign insurers will mak...
Plugging the EL leak.
The UK employers' liability market will continue to loose money, as long as insurers fail to embrace both portfolio underwriting techniques and the inadequacies of their data, argues Raj Ahuja.
New CFO at Chubb.
Chubb has named Weston Hicks, a former insurance analyst, as its chief financial officer, less than ...
Ins-sure helps increase capacity.
Following the hand-over of the processing operations for both Lloyd's and the International Underwri...
What the Papers Say.
THE SUN Petrol thieves are being scared off by old police cars rented out for £50 a week. The emp...
MPs demand QBE enquiry.
Members of Parliament will continue to demand an enquiry into the sale of Iron Trades Insurance to A...
Back to basics.
Aon's annual survey UK@Work 2001 has found that two-thirds of employees would leave their current or...
Fortis solvent despite Selby claim.
Fortis this week described speculation that lawyers were reluctant to take on new work from the comp...
Fusion opens first office in planned regional network.
Lloyd's insurer SVB's subsidiary Fusion Insurance Services has set up the first of a regional networ...
Industry shows its teeth on fraud.
Six people appeared before Leicester Magistrates Court this week to face charges of conspiracy to de...