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Swiss Re sets up UK-based e-business
A new e-commerce business is being set up in the UK by Swiss Re which will be headed up by chief exec...
Munich Re's profits hit by catastrophes
1999 was the worst year for natural catastrophe losses in Munich Re's 120-year history, the group has...
Bermuda targets Rims conference
Bermuda's insurance and reinsurance industries are to join forces to help put the island on the map a...
RSA in If rumour
Royal and Sun Alliance is considering a bid for If, the general insurance joint venture of Swedish in...
Layton Blackham in Surrey acquisition
Acquisitive broker the Layton Blackham Group has snapped up the general insurance business of Surrey-...
Mortgage insurance growth
There was a 9% increase in the take-up of mortgage insurance in the last six months of 1999, followin...
ERC combines Canadian p&c portfolio
US-based Employers Re (ERC) is to combine its Canadian property and casualty (p&c) operations in an a...
CGNU gets life listing
New insurance giant CGNU, which will be formed next week from the merger of Norwich and CGU, will be ...
Co-op triumphs at Millwall
Co-operative Insurance won the Impact Plus Cup for the second year running as they comfortably overca...
Print and be damned.
Veronica Cowan looks at the difficulties that arise when providing some parts of the media with professional indemnity insurance.
Aon/QBE teaming.
Broker Aon has joined up with Australian insurer QBE to devise a new range of products for the solic...
Olympic sponsor.
Lloyd's broker MRM Hancock is to sponsor the British Olympic men's heavyweight rowing squad at this ...
Crafty cover.
The yacht and pleasure craft market is seeing a change of fortune after several years of soft rates. Eric Alexander asks the sector's main players what they think is driving this upturn.
Liability in Crisis.
If you dread the latest news from the US about the extension of liability into previously unthought ...
What the Papers Say.
THE BIRMINGHAM POST A church built near Stratford more than four centuries ago and which was desi...
Claims-cutting bid.
Insurers are increasingly looking to third party providers in an attempt to cut claims costs, accord...
Questions that hang over corporate killing law.
The government's move to introduce a law on corporate killing, which will make companies criminally ...
KKR eyes Germany.
The American restructuring house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which already owns broker Willis, has said...
Exclusive - Promark offers 'fix' for online trading problems.
Promark Software has launched a new Internet quotation solution for online trading which supports it...
MULRA reaps Dimond reward.
The Motor Uninsured Loss Recoveries Association looks set for a membership boost on the back of the ...
Exclusive - Insurer backs e-initiative.
Robin Merttens, former managing director of broker Heath Lambert's overseas operations (PM 13 April,...
Exclusive - New ARM muscles in on ratings.
A former boss of rating agency Fitch IBCA has set up a new ratings market for small-to medium-sized ...
McLarens Toplis Watford opens new office.
McLarens Toplis Watford formally opened its new office last week, giving the company an extra 2250 s...
Amlin bucks trend.
Amlin has bucked the trend of poor results among Integrated Lloyd's Vehicles by posting a profit for...