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What the papers said this week
THE INDEPENDENT Top executives of the failed insurer HIH should face criminal charges for their...
Invaluable cash boost aids US push
Antique and fine art information specialist Invaluable has received a further cash injection from i...
At the sharp end
Lack of, or failure to, implement proper risk management has contributed to the employers' liability crisis. Rachel Gordon pins down how management of risks could yet save the day.
Highway undecided over new fraud risk manager
Motor insurer Highway has yet to make a decision about whether to appoint a new fraud risk manager ...
Appointment at The Clear Group
Surrey-based broker and IFA firm The Clear Group has appointed two senior personnel to its financia...
Charles Taylor launches new technical service
A new technical service has been launched by Charles Taylor Consulting to provide a full range of r...
Appointment at RK Harrison
RK Harrison has added a director to the board and made two appointments to its broking team. Stuart...
Appointment at Dolmans
Cardiff law firm Dolmans has promoted three senior associates to partner. Peter Bennett, Clare Knox...
Reinsurance drag on MMA
Broker-only insurer MMA cited rising reinsurance costs as it recorded a fall in UK operating profit...
NIG motor-cycle policy available online
NIG has made its motor-cycle policy Trophy available online via its dedicated broker extranet site....
At a rate of knots
The yacht and pleasure boat insurance sector is under full sail once again, due in part to the currently contracting market, and despite an industry-wide increase in liability claims. But, asks David Fanning, will rates remain buoyant and keep the market…
Appointment at Browne Jacobson
Susie Nicholson has joined Browne Jacobson's insurance and public risk team. A qualified barrister,...
Clarity and value can fight fraud.
Insurers need to explain the level of excess on policies more clearly to customers as one way of com...
Mass exodus of jobs and cash.
The world's largest financial services companies expect to transfer an estimated £225bn of their ope...
Appointment at Chubb Insurance.
David Casement has joined Chubb Commercial Insurance, a division of Chubb Insurance Company of Europ...
Appointment at Beazley.
Lloyd's managing agency Beazley has taken on Sarah Peters to develop Syndicate 2626/623's UK and Iri...
No duty of care owed in night-time diver accident.
Donoghue v Folkestone Properties Ltd (Court of Appeal - 27 February 2003).
Call for action on no win, no fee bus fears.
The coach and bus industry is very concerned about the no win, no fee industry and wants the governme...
Sabre expects big underwriting profits.
Non-standard motor insurer Sabre expects to report another sizeable underwriting profit for 2003, de...
M&SFS seeks GI counter sales as motor launched.
Marks & Spencer Financial Services this week said its long-term aim was to sell general insurance ov...
Appointment at R3: Group.
Business-to-business-to-consumer specialist R3: Group has made two new appointments to its Ipswich-b...
Surveyor fault a case of hindsight.
McKinnon and McKinnon v E Surv (Chancery Division - 14 January 2003).
A wider vision.
Allianz Cornhill's broker arm is a major player in a sector that has taken some hard knocks lately. Marcus Alcock talked to Chris Hanks, commercial underwriting and marketing executive for the division, about the company's wide-ranging plans going…
Zurich appoints Mark Bull as partnership manager.
Zurich has appointed Mark Bull as partnership manager, networks and suppliers, for its motor enginee...