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Appointment at Swiss Re.
Dr Catherine Bell and Sir Colin Campbell have been made non-executive directors of the board of Swis...
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Alex Minajew has joined Devitt Insurance Services to take on the newly-created role of business deve...
Crystal clear NIG.
NIG Skandia has been given a glittering prize for its Trophy motorcycle policy. The insurer was awar...
High hopes for aviation take-off.
Aviation rates remained firmly grounded over the past year, according to the London Aviation Insuran...
Appointment at Cox Insurance Holdings.
Nick Potts and Maria Bourke have both left Privilege Insurance to join Cox Insurance (Retail). Mr Po...
BRIT awards itself new name.
Benfield Reinsurance has relaunched itself as BRIT Insurance following the aquisition of a 29.99% st...
NU integration kicks off.
Norwich Union has embarked in earnest on its integration of London & Edinburgh, the insurer it acqui...
Millennium hits the road.
Millennium Insurance is going on the road to help brokers unscramble the latest developments in the ...
Let's (not) do the time warp again.
High street brokers have been warned that they will be left in a "commercial time warp" if they cont...
Appointment at Axa Re.
Sarah Zhivanovich has been promoted to underwriter in the property division of Axa Re's treaty depar...
Ecuador opening.
Crawford THG has created its first local company in Ecuador in a bid to enhance its service to oil a...
Animal Insurance Management Services spots gap in pet market.
Animal Insurance Management Services has spotted a gap in the pet market and is leading the way with...
Spires and spokes.
Church insurance specialist Ecclesiastical is sponsoring the Cotswolds Cycle Race for a further two ...
The typing's on the wall for manual inputting.
Manual data entry could follow the typewriter into the confines of history with the launch of a prod...
Insurers too powerful'.
Insurers could hold national governments to ransom by threatening to pull out of the country and rel...
Playing for laughs.
The Lincoln Financial Group is set to advertise its ISA range with its first national campaign which...
Cyclone hits Oz.
One of the most powerful tropical storms ever has devastated the north west coast of Australia. Cycl...
Interest in Equine.
Entertainment & Leisure Insurance Services said this week that it had been approached by three compa...
There's nowt as queer as folk.
There is no such thing as a 'typical consumer' any more, a fact which has forced marketing departmen...
Lobby group set up.
An insurance lobby group has been set up to promote the advantages of group protection. Group Insura...
Paddick says GISC hostility is growing.
City of London brokers are rallying against the General Insurance Standards Council, according to th...
Reducing costs is biggest challange.
The greatest challenge to the industry posed by stakeholder is to get operating costs down. This ...
The drugs do work.
South African financial services Fedsure is set to acquire the healthcare business of SA Druggists f...
Share Watch.
It is a bitter irony of the unit trust industry that it is more profitable to buy the stock of a fun...