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Zurich to rebuild arm.
Zurich UK Commercial is restructuring its construction business into a single unit, which will opera...
Folgate managers poised for buyout.
The former commercial management team of Folgate Insurance is close to signing a deal to acquire par...
Rate hikes in the motor market are continuing to ease ...
Rate hikes in the motor market are continuing to ease, according to figures from the Automobile Asso...
One for the road?
The government has recently refused to implement tighter controls for drink-driving. However, the ABI is keen to remind drivers, when they are deciding whether to have that last drink, that premiums are loaded against those that flout the law, says…
Bupa to be official health partner for Commonwealth Games.
Bupa has signed a deal to be the official health partner for the Commonwealth Games, taking place in...
Appointment at Chubb Insurance.
Chubb Insurance Company of Europe has made Dave Brosnan commercial insurance manager for Chubb Europ...
Enter the Lutine Regatta now.
Post Magazine is delighted to sponsor this year's First Title Lutine Lineslip Regatta, the premier y...
Alexander Forbes Classic Car to sponsor Aston Martin Challenge.
Broker Alexander Forbes Classic Car is to sponsor the Historic Aston Martin Challenge at Brands Hatc...
Mutual protection welcome.
Mutuality is back in the news this week, as the long-running Parliamentary campaign to protect mutua...
Appointment at AIG Europe (UK).
AIG Europe (UK) has appointed Ray Antes as vice president, political risk for UK and Ireland. Based ...
Open+Direct rebrands its acquisitions.
Northern Irish financial services company Open + Direct has rebranded three of the brokerages it bou...
Appointment at Chaucer Insurance.
Kent-based Chaucer Insurance has recruited Stephen Butler as personal lines underwriter, responsible...
Health & safety alliance signed.
RIMS has signed an alliance with the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administr...
Appointment at James Chapman & Co.
Manchester-based insurance litigation firm James Chapman & Co has appointed five new partners in its...
McCarthy calls for compliance.
Frances McCarthy, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, said it was wrong to sugg...
High cost if UK mimics US.
If the UK develops a full-scale US-style compensation culture, claims volumes and settlements levels...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
This week I was sent something quite cool through the post as an enticement to review a website. Ins...
Budget latest
Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon put his f...
US P&C makes first annual loss
The US property and casualty (P&C) sector in 2001 suffered its first ever full-year loss — $7.9bn, ac...
Lack of terrorism cover causes crisis in confidence
Corporate confidence in the US insurance industry has fallen in the wake of the 11 September attacks,...
What the papers said this week.
METRO For £1500 a day, a California treatment centre is offering film companies the ultimate insu...
Lloyd's facing struggle as ALM laments losses.
Lloyd's faces a desperate struggle to raise more funds this week, after it emerged its losses for th...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny's pride in her own fairer sex continues to soar with news of yet another lady set to pound the...
Covered for play.
The organisers of this year's Commonwealth Games in Manchester have escaped price hikes for insuranc...