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Solicitors' PI: The road to reform
In recent times, the solicitors' professional indemnity market has been travelling a difficult path. Jane Bernstein examines the road ahead by taking a close look at proposed industry changes and the effect they may have.
Broker event to be repeated
Leeds-based Henderson Insurance Brokers has attracted 35 insurers to its inaugural conference and plans to make it an annual event.
Integro elects Byrne as chairman
John (Jack) Byrne, who led Fireman’s Fund and its former parent company, White Mountains Insurance Group, as well as Geico, has been elected chairman of the board of Integro.
Insurers show hands over PI renewals
RSA has confirmed it has closed its doors to new clients looking for solicitors' professional indemnity insurance.
Call for solicitors to act as PI renewal deadline looms
Solicitors have been urged to get on with securing professional indemnity insurance with only a month left until the PI insurance renewal date.
Travelers to take on Quinn PII
Travelers has struck an exclusive agreement with Quinn’s former broker, Prime Professions, to offer cover to sole practitioners who are no longer covered after Quinn’s departure from the market, the Law Society Gazette reports.
RSA on track to double book
Mark Christer, managing director of More Than, has taken over RSA's global renewable energy book.
Editor's comment: In search of a CEO
The news that Travelers chief operating officer Tony Dilley has left the UK business this week raised questions again about how the hunt is going for a successor to Martin Hudson, the business' CEO who departed in October 2009.
COO follows CEO out of Travelers UK
Travelers remained tight-lipped this week on the future of its UK management after it was hit by a second senior departure in less than a year when Tony Dilley stepped down as chief operating officer.
Catlin to join solicitors' PI market exodus
Bermuda-based insurer Catlin has become the latest player to withdraw from the troubled solicitors' professional indemnity insurance market.
CNA expands technology underwriting team
CNA Europe has made two appointments to its European technology practice.
CNA expands technology underwriting team
CNA Europe has made two appointments to its European technology practice.
Solvency II - Cost V opportunity: A cost worth paying
After complaints over the amount of management time needed to comply with Solvency II and the costs associated with this, Rachel Gordon asks if the grumbles are justified.
RSA's Devitt to leave UK business
RSA’s sales and strategic relationship director Aaron Devitt is to leave the UK business after taking an internal promotion in Copenhagen.
RSA's Devitt to leave UK business
RSA’s sales and strategic relationship director Aaron Devitt is to leave the UK business after taking an internal promotion in Copenhagen.
RSA seeks two after director departures
RSA's commercial broking division is to lose a second key director within a month, when Aaron Devitt leaves the UK business. Mr Devitt, sales director since November 2008, will leave to take over as commercial lines director for RSA's Scandinavian…
RSA SME boss to move to Travelers
Ken Norgrove, director of SME business and chief executive of group renewable energy at RSA, is to return to Ireland to take a role at Travelers.
RSA SME boss to move to Travelers
Ken Norgrove, director of SME business and chief executive of group renewable energy at RSA, is to return to Ireland to take a role at Travelers.
Lloyd's Market Association names new chairman
Barnabas Hurst-Bannister, chairman of Travelers Syndicate Management, has been elected chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association, which represents the interests of the Lloyd’s underwriting community.
Allianz tops Towergate service survey
Latest research conducted by Towergate Risk Solutions has revealed Allianz as the top performing key insurer servicing its broking operations.
Approval of Chubb's move into Lloyd's market imminent
US insurance giant Chubb is set to enter the Lloyd's market almost a decade after its failed bid to buy Hiscox. According to sources, Chubb has received conditional approval for market entry with full authorisation following a Financial Services…
US insurance giant Chubb set to enter Lloyd's with new syndicate
Almost a decade after its failed bid for Lloyd’s insurer Hiscox US insurance giant Chubb has become the latest corporate player to bid for Lloyd’s entry.
Prime Professions to replace Quinn on solicitors account
Prime Professions is poised to replace Quinn with another insurer for its UK solicitors account, with Zurich and Travelers as frontrunners, Post has learnt.
Insurer trio ordered to pay up to £20m over faulty sofas
Axa, Chartis and Travelers will pay a share of up to £20m in compensation to thousands of consumers who received serious chemical burns from sofas manufactured in China.