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Chinese insurance market 2000.
China's insurance sector had premium income of 159.59bn yuan (£12.7bn) last year, up 14.5% from 1999...
Appointment at Primary Insurance.
Primary Insurance has recruited Phillip Smith to its underwriting team. He joins after seven years a...
NIG revs up motor.
NIG has added two new products to its Sovereign motor insurance product portfolio. Sovereign Prime w...
CGNU set to shelve plans for alliance.
UK insurer CGNU looks set to shelve its plans for an alliance with France's Societe Generale and is ...
Saga rules out insurer route.
Over-50s insurance specialist Saga has ruled out becoming an insurance company, and is looking to si...
Open to health.
Expatriate healthcare provider, ExpaCare Insurance Services, has selected Open Health plus from Inte...
Insurers get genetics call.
Three of the UK's largest insurers have been summoned to give oral evidence to MPs, following a comm...
Appointment at Property & Casualty.
Services Property & Casualty Services has appointed Mark Johnston as branch manager, material damage...
Appointment at Lloyd's.
The new head of market risk at Lloyd's is to be Henry Johnson. He joins after two years at Swiss Re,...
HMO talks to combat fraud.
US health insurers Humana, Cigna, United Health and Pru of America are expected to follow Aetna's le...
AGF scoops WAIG.
The AGF Group has acquired the remaining 51% shareholding of London-based Westminster Aviation Insur...
Hiscox hosts exhibition.
Hiscox is to host an exhibition, Life-Size, by Richard Elliott in its art cafe between 29 January an...
AIIB to host rules debates.
The Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers has thrown down the gauntlet to members of t...
Fraud uncovered.
An insurer's refusal to pay excessively high credit hire charges has exposed a £7000 fraud in a case...
Plain ridiculous.
Insurers have poured cold water on government plans to impose heavy restrictions on the building of ...
Appointment at Walmsleys.
Walmsleys Insurance Brokers has appointed Philip Gee, Jane Denham, Lesley Lindley, Martin Bellamy an...
Appointment at Equitable Life.
Charles Thomson has assumed the role of general manager - finance and appointed actuary at Equitable...
APIL to meet with liquidators.
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers is due to meet with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the provisio...
GISC costs a cause for concern.
Saga, one of the UK's largest personal lines brokers, is in talks with the General Insurance Standar...
Halifax travels alone.
Halifax Travel Insurance has beaten off competition from four other insurers to become the sole trav...
3 Arrows reorganises sales structure.
Non-fault accident assistance specialist 3 Arrows has reorganised its sales structure. The change wi...
Claims Direct stands firm.
No win, no fee claims management company Claims Direct is keen to work with insurers, but will not b...
RAC to target road safety.
The RAC is to target road safety among fleet drivers, after it found more than a third of drivers, w...
Reliance to self-administer run-off.
Reliance National Insurance, the UK arm of floundering US provider, Reliance Group Holdings, will se...