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DP Mann and Cologne Re of London become Faraday
The broker distribution business formed from the Lloyd's managing agent DP Mann and Cologne Re's UK o...
London takes tough stance on asbestos
The London market, led by Lloyd's reinsurer Equitas, has toughened its stance on asbestos in the face...
XL Capital boosts reinsurance profit
Bermudian (re)insurer XL Capital increased its net written reinsurance premiums by 4.3% year-on-year ...
PartnerRe profit surges ahead
PartnerRe of Bermuda more than quadrupled its first quarter profit to $96m from $23m in the first qua...
Inter-Alliance to offer Pru staff jobs
Inter-Alliance, the independent financial advisory group, is to offer opportunities to Prudential sal...
Aon down, but broking up
Chicago-based broker Aon has recorded first-quarter net profits down 84% to $19m for the same period ...
MPs debate Chester Street collapse
In a debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the collapse of Chester Street Insurance, the gover...
Fairfax Q1 profit falls
(Re)insurance group Fairfax Financial has reported a 14% drop in its profits for the first quarter of...
Q-Max to help Budget with staffing.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Window into insurance.
This week sees the launch of Post Magazine's internet-based service, insurancewindow.net, the perfect complement to our successful website Postmag.co.uk.
Cooper and Gay: Jones steps down.
Michael Jones, executive chairman of Lloyd's broker Cooper and Gay, is to step down from his executi...
Art theft site update.
Website www.FindStolen Art.com, which aims to assist police forces across the UK in the recovery and...
Chubb eyes Hiscox.
Dean O'Hare, chief executive of Chubb, confirmed this week that the US insurer was still very intere...
Eurobase victim of industrial espionage.
Software supplier to the London market Eurobase believes it has been the victim of industrial espion...
As IBRC door closes, GISC opens for business.
After all the wrangling and in-fighting - some of which seems set to continue - the Treasury finally...
Connex crash.
Railway operators are again under scrutiny after a Connex train carrying staff overshot the platform...
ITS reports a loss.
Insurance Technology Solutions reported a loss of £1.1m for the year ending 30 June 2000, compared w...
The Hiscox Art Cafe.
The Hiscox Art Cafe is currently exhibiting portraits of inhabitants of Colombian shanty towns by Ca...
CIS enters group pension market.
Manchester-based Co-operative Insurance Society has entered the group pension market with a stakehol...
Cornell at the helm.
Clifford Chance partners have voted for joint European managing partner Peter Cornell to become thei...
Pearl in data deal.
Pearl Assurance has begun working on a multi-million-pound data migration contract with the data tra...
Sick travellers get the AllClear.
Bishopscourt Group Insurance Services has launched a new travel policy, AllClear Plus, aimed at holi...
Ace's high profits.
Ace has reported net income for the first quarter of 2001 of $118m (£81.3m) compared to $175m for th...
Homing in on costs.
Home improvement website improveline.com believes it can save the insurance industry over £100m a ye...