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Liability in Crisis: insurance in the litigious age - 22 June,
One of the biggest issues facing the insurance industry is the explosion in liability, both in terms...
IBM solution.
IBM has teamed up with software provider Versata to develop VisualAge Application Rules. They claim ...
TIFCO defends Dury ad.
Penny Black chided TIFCO (Post Magazine 13 April, p64) for continuing to run with an ad campaign tha...
Another Gerling.
Credit insurer Gerling has opened a new company, Gerling International Credit Insurance Services in ...
Crowe v French Edinburgh Court of Session 29 March 2000.
The claimant was awarded £14,000 by the court to compensate for the weekly costs of hairdressing aft...
Appointment at Cigna Healthcare.
Kate Wakefield has been made healthcare services sales manager at Cigna Healthcare. She joins from B...
Bermuda government criticises US tax move
Bermuda's government has finally hit back against proposals to change US tax rules to prevent US insu...
IBRC to continue
The Insurance Brokers Registration Council is set to continue as a 'self-regulatory professional body...
Direct Line claims online lead
Insurer Direct Line claims to have taken a 40% share of the online car insurance market in the UK in...
RSA profits down despite rise in premium income
Royal & Sun Alliance, the UK's largest general insurer, saw profits for the first three months of the...
ING to buy ReliaStar Re
ReliaStar Re is to be absorbed by the ING Group as part of a $6.1bn acquisition deal for its parent, ...
Ace & Willis announce partnership
Ace Bermuda and UK-based broker Willis have entered into a strategic partnership to develop a protect...
Professional indemnity lawyers slated
Professional indemnity lawyers have been slammed for letting down their clients and failing to maximi...
Willis art in Guernsey
UK broker Willis has entered into a strategic partnership wit Ace Bermuda Insurance to establish an A...
All for one progress by Zurich
Anglo-Swiss Zurich Financial Services has taken a step forward in its quest to end its twin holding c...
JLT risks move in US
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson is to form a US-based risk consultancy in a joint venture with private ...
JLT launches US joint venture
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) has launched a US-based specialist risk services business in a jo...
Colonial goes to Winterthur
Colonial has sold its UK life and pensions business to Swiss insurer Winterthur, part of the Credit S...
Zurich ties up with MDU
Insurer Zurich has invested an estimated £25m in a joint venture with the Medical Defence Union to un...
Axa strikes deal for SLPH
French insurance giant Axa has sealed a deal to acquire the remaining 44.7% of Sun Life & Provincial ...
QBE bids for Limit
A bidding war looks set to start for Lloyd's-based Limit following an unsolicited approach from QBE I...
Chubb presses for US tax reform
Chubb chairman Dean O'Hare countered accusations of protectionism over his company's campaign to chan...
Lloyd's forecasting fails.
AM Best has assigned a negative outlook to its 'A' (excellent) financial strength rating of Lloyd's....
Labuan for Scor.
French reinsurer Scor has been granted a licence to write business from Malaysia's offshore financia...