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Greenberg to retire as Zarb moves in at AIG
Non-executive chairman Maurice Greenberg will formally retire from AIG tomorrow or Thursday and leave the company on 31 March. Frank Zarb will take on the chairman's duties as lead director of AIG's board.
Time to test yourself: A selection of questions from various past-CII qualification papers
Whether you are studying for Chartered Insurance Institute exams or just want to test yourself, see how you do
Fraudster gets five years
Carol Birrell was sentenced to five and a half years in prison at Liverpool Crown Court this week fo...
Appointment at Cunningham Lindsey
Cunningham Lindsey UK's complex loss liability team has recruited Gill Cooke from GAB Robins. Ms Coo...
Appointment at Budget
Kal Samra, previously senior manager at Bennetts, has been promoted to associate director. She joine...
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Looking back
What the papers said this week
The Guardian Accident and emergency nurses are being offered cash to refer road traffic accident vi...
AA in personal injury drive
The AA is set for an aggressive push into the personal injury market later this year. The news coinc...
Seven-day updates can deliver vision
I am writing with regard to the suggestion that "insurers have abandoned plans for real-time updatin...
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Social Exclusion
Time to back up the talk
The Association of British Insurers' proposals, announced this month, to halve the time taken by ins...
Appointment at Hiscox
Andrew Cheney has joined the Hiscox team as senior risk management surveyor. He will work within the...
Norwich Union finances
News in brief
Appointment at SBJ Group
SBJ has made three appointments. Simon Ellen has become chairman. Mr Ellen spent 25 years in investm...
Appointment at Kain Knight
Jennifer James has joined Kain Knight as a consultant to undertake costs work. She previously spent ...
ABI claims fraud worth £3.5m a week is being detected
Figures issued today by the Association of British Insurers reveal a dramatic rise in the value of fraudulent insurance claims being detected by insurers, with dishonest claims totalling over £3.5 million a week now being exposed.
Garvey quits at Marsh
Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) has announced that Peter Garvey, co-president of Marsh, the company's risk and insurance services subsidiary, has resigned for personal reasons effective today.
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...