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General Re swoops to snap up DP Mann.
One of the last independent agencies at Lloyd's has been taken over by giant American reinsurer Gene...
Pru's £250k deal.
Prudential has signed a long-term agreement to use ISL's Risk Selection and Marketing software in a ...
Credit agency to examine merger.
International credit rating agency Standard & Poors is unimpressed with plans for Ireland's biggest-...
Ridiculous' and 'stupid' behaviour of ABI over Y2K.
Regarding the year 2000 problems, I find the response of the insurance industry to this matter - and...
First Active pick L&G.
Legal & General has been selected by First Active to be their sole provider for mortgage related lif...
JLT merges operations.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson is to combine its London market insurance and reinsurance operations from the...
Charity's minibus insured.
Essex broker FMW Corporate Risks and Royal Sun Alliance have arranged to insure an MS charity's mini...
Looking down the road to the future.
Fifty years ago the motor show at Earls Court threw up a number of interesting insurance issues. The...
Warning signs that must be heeded.
The most striking facet of the analysis of motor insurers market share is just how sharply the share...
Shrewsbury Town Football Club's pitch becomes a swimming pool.
Shrewsbury Town Football Club's physio Ray Pullem donned his flippers and snorkel after the pitch be...
Appointment at Winter Richmund.
Tim Wakelin has been promoted to national sales manager with Winter Richmund. An associate member of...
IT staff are highest paid.
Finance and business IT staff earn more than peers.
NewRo move pours fuel on regulatory row.
Any hope of consensus in the general insurance regulatory row was blown away with the revelation tha...
Belge moves for bank.
Royal Belge is to strengthen its distribution of insurance products by launching a friendly bid for ...
Exclusive - Isle of Man leads the way with pensions law.
The Isle of Man is to be the first offshore centre to introduce pensions regulation, with legislatio...
Insurer looks to MPs to save polarisation.
A campaign to safeguard the concept of polarisation in the selling of insurance and pension products...
Insurers hold their breath for estimated £100m flood claims.
The industry is playing a game of 'wait and see' over the expected wave of claims arising from flood...
Fish farmers not covered for culling of diseased salmon.
For most in the insurance industry, ISA means the forthcoming government-sponsored vehicle for encou...
Preferential Travel Insurance prepares for new year.
Preferential Travel Insurance is packing its rucksacks in preparation for the new year. After a numb...
New Polaris chairman.
Steve Broughton, the UK managing director of personal financial services for Royal & SunAlliance, ha...
Irish road safety talks.
Ireland held its first national road safety conference in Dublin last week. In a country where car o...
Lost jobs put more than 300 firms below the Plimsoll line.
The insurance broker job market looks to be in tatters with over 13,000 job losses last year and few...
Appointment at Brian Sharp.
Two appointments have been made at Brian Sharp. Derek Lyons, who has been with the firm for 11 years...
Appointment at UK Facilities.
Wholesale insurance brokers UK Facilities has recruited Albert Robinson as a director....