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Smart & Cook in Newcastle
Broker Smart & Cook, has opened a new 17-strong office in Newcastle with two teams covering both inde...
No replacement for experience.
Insurance is often its own worst enemy. You have only to look at the letters in the national newspap...
S&P gives Ozzy health insurers thumbs down.
Ratings agency Standard & Poors has warned Australia's private health insurers that they could lose ...
Willis seeks US float
UK broker Willis, which is majority owned by investment vehicle KKR, is to seek a partial flotation i...
Body network two.
Bodyshop network ABS is aiming to recruit a secondary network to handle work overflow from the main ...
Allianz banks on expansion.
German insurance giant Allianz, which is set to become the world's fourth largest financial group, a...
Future committee.
Lloyd's is to set up a new high-level committee to review the future strategy of the Lloyd's market....
Insurers shift fraud focus.
Paul Crake, recently-installed fraud manager at the Association of British Insurers, plans to scale ...
Helping to crack fraud with Post Magazine.
Post Magazine has joined forces with WeatherNet to offer a weather-related claims validation service...
Insurers can't walk away.
The government has signalled it will not let the insurance industry ignore employers' liability case...
McLarens steps up Asian operation following deregulation.
Loss adjuster McLarens Toplis is stepping up its operations in Asia, following the deregulation of t...
Appointment at AE Wyeth and Co.
Dartford-based AE Wyeth and Co has appointed Anne Wilson and Jennifer Harris as partners....
Jumping the gun on genetic tests.
Oh dear. The insurance industry, despite having had the opportunity based on its experience of AIDS ...
Aon sells out to Beazley.
Lloyd's managing agency Beazley completed a management buyout this week, after investor Aon decided ...
Appointment at R3: Group.
Peter Cooper has been appointed account executive at Ipswich-based R3: Group. He will be focusing on...
IUA open about LMP signings.
The basis of your news story (London market reforms shunned, Post Magazine, 29 March, p1) was both o...
Heath Lambert in Acordia deal.
Heath Lambert hopes to boost its multi-national business, after signing a deal with US broker Acordi...
ILMS takes over Cigna run-off
Independent London Market Services is to administer the run-off of Cigna Corporation's London-based l...
Winner's prize is just the ticket.
Lee Bryant from broker Oughtred and Harrison will be entertaining friends and colleagues in an execu...
Crowe owner takes Stock.
Lloyd's insurer Crowe Syndicate Management looks set to be sold by its parent company Stockton Re, a...
Compensation in focus.
The growing compensation culture is sending shockwaves across the insurance industry, with few remaining unaffected. Post Magazine's business breakfast focused on the issue and found it provoked vehement reactions. Jane Bernstein followed proceedings.
Horton quits Terra.
David Horton is to quit Terra Nova Insurance, where he underwrites its US property treaty account, t...
Fund cover launched.
Following the implementation of the Trustee Act 2000, broker Stuart Alexander has teamed up with Fun...
Gays can retire with Freedom.
Former Tory and independent financial adviser Ivan Massow has launched a new pension aimed at same-s...