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Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has appointed Jonathan Sutcliffe as claims manager at its Cheadle office and G...
Appointment at Canada Life.
John Roberts has been appointed director of group business at Canada Life. He joined the company in ...
Training initiative.
Four industry bodies have teamed up to develop training and competence toolkits for financial advise...
Royal Commission report to be delivered today.
The now long-overdue government response to last year's Royal Commission report into long-term care ...
RSA aims small.
Royal & Sun Alliance has launched an online service aimed at small businesses. The site, www.usecolo...
Wellington denies rebuff reports.
Wellington Underwriting Agencies has denied reports that it rebuffed an informal offer from fellow L...
Axa delegates power.
Axa Insurance has upped its fight for a larger share of business from the 200 general insurance brok...
Equitas surplus up.
Equitas, set up to reinsure and run off the 1992 and prior years' on-life liabilities of Lloyd's syn...
Lloyd's chairmanship to revert to part-time
Lloyd's chairmanship is to revert from full- to part-time from 2001. The role became full-time back...
IPCRe reports catastrophe losses
Bermuda-based property catastrophe reinsurer IPCRe has reported losses of $22.1m for the quarter endi...
PXRe expects five-fold increase in losses
Bermuda-based PXRe has announced that it is expecting to make a net loss of around $23.5m in the seco...
Legal & General up in first half
Legal & General Group has recorded pre-tax operating profits of £231m for the first half of the year,...
Concorde crash costs estimates
The crash yesterday of the Air France Concorde which tragically killed 100 passengers, nine crew and ...
ECGD review a missed opportunity
The International Underwriting Association believes the government missed an opportunity in its revie...
Abbey National joins Equitable watchers
Abbey National has put itself in the frame for Equitable Life and confirmed this morning that it wou...
CGNU sells off German general business
CGNU is to sell its German general insurance business, General Accident Versicherungs to Gerling-Konz...
Insurers get green light from FSA over inheritance
The Financial Services Authority has given the thumbs up to Axa's proposed transfer of the policies a...
Ren Re reports record earnings
Renaisance Re has reported record operating earnings per share in its second quarter results. The B...
Audited accounts credit warning
Brokers and other companies with a turnover of under £1m a year could lose their access to credit fol...
Insurers welcome ruling on suing barristers
Barristers have been stripped of the immunity that they have enjoyed for two centuries following a la...
Paddick to push ahead with regulatory plan
Andrew Paddick, director general of the Institute of Insurance Brokers has written to brokers confirm...
Credit hire industry sets up trade body
A new trade association for credit hire operating companies has been launched called the National Ass...
Equitas increases reserves
Equitas, the company set up by Lloyd's to reinsure and run off its pre-1993 non-life liabilities, has...
Surge in claims due to rise in crime.
Insurers fear a continued surge in claims for compensation as government figures released on Tuesday...