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Swiss Re's £6m deal.
Swiss Re New Markets has compled a new reinsurance transaction that provides £6m of risk protection ...
Brockbank Syndicate has WINner of a system.
Brockbank Syndicate Management has underwritten the first risk to be placed in the Lloyd's market us...
Scottish Mutual primed to launch investment bond.
Scottish Mutual has decided to launch a new With Profit Investment Bond at the start of September. ...
When mum was definitely not the word.
Scary Spice, Posh Spice and All Saints' Melanie Blatt. It seems its hip to be pregnant at the moment...
Rights for divorcees.
Sedgwick Noble Lowndes retirement policy director Richard Malone has called for the government to he...
Fire Regulation.
The government has set out proposals for the implementation of the general fire safety provisions of...
Appointment at Norman Insurance.
Andy Norman has been made south east England sales representative for Norman Insurance, the UK arm o...
Treasury must stop being the department of headlines.
Am I the only person who has watched the government's handling of the pensions mis-selling saga with...
Travel add-ons.
Standard Life has launched a new worldwide insurance add-on to complement its Company Primecare and ...
Appointment at Jardine Lloyd Thompson.
Tony Pollard has been made chief executive of Jardine Insurance Services' Birmingham office. He join...
Danes' need for Swede.
Danish mortgage credit institute Nykredit and Swedish insurer Trygg-Hansa, part of the Swedish backi...
Charcol fires off trio.
John Charcol has extended its redemption-free product range with three new packages. Marketing direc...
Buyout will trip up regulation.
The acquisition of Sedgwick by J&H Marsh & McLennan comes as little surprise given the hectic consol...
Exclusive - Hiscox puts system to millennium test.
Hiscox has successfully completed a pilot test of its systems that are used to trade electronically ...
Law firms to merge.
Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave has announced it is to merge with Manchester law firm Vaudreys. The merg...
Underwater proposal.
Some people are said to dive into relationships, others take it literally. Tracy Houghton, of Cornhi...
AA hits back at reports of trade falling off.
AA insurance has stressed that its closure of 142 shops has nothing to do with dwindling trade. A...
Appointment at Axa Global Risks.
Jean-Remi Bernard has been promoted to management information manager of Axa Global Risks (UK). He w...
FSA says rebate-only pension cases may not escape review.
The Financial Services Authority has refused to rule out including rebate-only personal pension case...
Building sire raided.
More than 20 police officers and five-plant investigators raided a construction site in Scotland ove...
You can't party on if the party's off.
Millennium parties can be covered against unforeseen problems by a policy from Insurex Expo-Sure. ...
Insurers count clost of blaze that gutted Army homes.
Crawford-THg is handling all 29 losses as a result of brush fires which swept through the officers' ...
Deadline for merger.
The Zurich Group has announced that it aims to complete the merger with BAT Industries on September ...
Risky times in Hong Kong.
As Hong Kong's new airport finally starts handling all air cargo, Jeremy Golden looks at the shakey start up of this huge infrastructure project, and assesses the insurance implications.