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Donns' new role.
Manchester-based Donns solicitors has been appointed by West Midlands intermediary Bennetts to opera...
Appointment at Compensation Claims.
Former president of the Insurance Institute of Leeds, Bernard Thornton, has established a new busine...
Appointment at Silver Shield Windscreens.
Silver Shield Windscreens has made several appointments as part of a campaign to target the insuranc...
Appointment at Mondial Assistance.
Nicola Burchell joins Mondial Assistance as marketing manager. Prior to this appointment, Ms Burchel...
Fortis ups anchor on yachts.
Fortis is to cease underwriting yacht and pleasure craft business from 30 June. It will transfer the...
Christianson: mp.
Birmingham-based Shakespeare's Solicitors has chosen the head of its personal injury practice, Gary ...
Enviego: more help.
Lifestyle management service provider Enviego has teamed up with Bupa to offer its clients 24 hour h...
Shoddy label for insurers.
The commercial lines insurance industry was last week branded as inefficient and fragmented at the ...
Rise in motor rates.
Motor insurance has risen by 6.21% over the past three months, according to the latest AA insurance ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Is the CII presidency a poisoned chalice? Penny has been pondering this question over the last few d...
Coming to terms.
Term insurance, enjoying a boost as repayment mortgages grow in popularity, is attracting insurers' attention away from less profitable sectors. Trevor Hemsley reports on the new spin providers are putting on this product.
News in brief.
Independent is to sponsor the Grosvenor House Art and Antique Fair, 13-19 June. Among the pieces on ...
Fortis to pay out claims to victims of Selby rail crash.
Fortis Insurance, which insured the Land Rover that caused the Selby rail disaster, is to pay out cl...
FM Green needs cultivation.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Mean streets?
The country's soaring crime rates mean South Africa's general insurance market is only for the resolute. Despite this, competition is fierce and insurers manage to record an acceptable profit, says Jeremy Golden.
Appointment at Invaluable.
Invaluable, provider of off- and online information on the art, antiques and collectible markets, ha...
Wren's combination plan hits obstacle.
Lloyd's managing agency Wren Syndicates Management's plan to combine four out of five of its Lloyd'...
Acott: MD at Zenith.
Lloyd's insurer Zenith, which completed a management buy out last year, has appointed the former ope...
Nappy dust claims.
Manufacturing giant Procter & Gamble has settled claims worth £250,000 brought by six employees who ...
Appointment at Munters.
Munters, the property restoration specialist, has recruited Craig Scandrett to join its Nottingham t...
Hiscox profits jump — on balance
Hiscox, which recently rebuffed a bid offer from US giant Chubb, has recorded a rise in pre tax profits to £3.5m compared to only £112 000 in 1999, claiming that gross written premiums of £384.7m helped offset market volatility in it's Lloyd's operations.
RenaissanceRe sees hardening market
RenaissanceRe Holdings, primarily a property catastrophe reinsurer, has recorded a 21% increase in ne...
Aon to spin off underwriting business
Broking giant Aon plans to spin off its insurance underwriting operations - and to re-enter the prop...
Appointment at Fortis Insurance.
Fortis Insurance has appointed Clare Tilly to the newly-created role of affinity schemes manager. Sh...