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Appointment at Helphire
Helphire Group, has appointed Richard Arnold as business development manager.
Allianz reports connectivity success with imarket
Allianz Cornhill and Acturis have successfully completed connectivity testing through imarket. Acturis currently provide Allianz Cornhill brokers with the ability to obtain quotations through a structured e-mail solution, which totally removes the need…
Chaucer profits up six per cent
Chaucer has reported record profits for the year ended 31 December 2004.
Chaucer and Highway in takeover talks
Chaucer and Highway have confirmed they are in advanced discussions about a possible recommended all share offer by Chaucer for Highway on the basis of 44 Chaucer ordinary shares for every 54 Highway ordinary shares.
First Assist forges new healthcare partnership
Health and wellbeing specialist, FirstAssist, is forging a new partnership with Premier Occupational Healthcare, one of the UK’s leading occupational health solutions providers.
75% use internet to buy insurance
More than three-quarters of home and motor insurance customers use the internet to research the mark...
Fortis awaits affinity effect
Fortis Insurance will have to wait until it reports its annual results in 2007 before witnessing the...
URS sails towards £50m income
London Market News
SMEs are more likely to defraud insurers
The Association of British Insurers conference tackled a raft of issues last week. Post Magazine reports on the key findings
Appointment at Robin Simon
Robin Simon has made John Wasty a senior solicitor in its directors and officers and financial insti...
US sell-off talk fails to lift cloud over RSA
Rumours that Royal and Sun Alliance will finally sell off its troublesome US liability book failed t...
Penny Black's insurance week
Last week, Penny strolled along to the Association of British Insurers' conference in London and not...
Appointment at Horwich Farrelly
Manchester law firm Horwich Farrelly has made Antony Wong a partner. Mr Wong, a solicitor in the fir...
Kelly takes up same role
London Market News
Broker La Playa launches division
Broker La Playa has launched a farms and estates division for large-scale agricultural business and ...
Medical negligence claims increase
Medical negligence claims for more than £1m have increased by almost fourfold in the past 10 years, ...
Insurers reject MID update
Insurers have abandoned plans for real-time updating of the Motor Insurance Database on cost grounds...
Beazley doubles profits
London Market News
Unison urges caution over personal injury threshold
Plans to raise the small-claims threshold for personal injury could drive those injured at work into...
Reading crash will not raise MIB levy
Motor insurers' annual levy to the Motor Insurance Bureau is unlikely to be changed, despite claims ...
Appointment at Mondial
Martin Lyons has joined Mondial as the new general manager for its Ireland division. He joins from C...
Appointment at Freeclaim-IDC
Ashington-based litigation funder Freeclaim-IDC has appointed solicitor Louise Gudgin to head up its...
Insurers consider fraud case
Insurers Zurich and Royal and Sun Alliance are thought to be considering pursuing a fraud case throu...
Budget 2005: ABI response
Peter Vipond, Association of British Insurers' director of financial regulation and taxation said: “The Government is right to freeze Insurance Premium Tax. This is entirely justified by the fact that the Government took £2.4bn for the current tax year,…