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Insurance uncovered.
If you think insurance has been around for a couple of centuries, think again. David Worsfold traces the roots of the industry and also describes the birth of its most prestigious and long-established journal - Post Magazine.
New Year boost for insurers
The value of shares in major insurance companies - which have been long undervalued - are set to bene...
Floyd costs $1.8bn.
The estimated insured damage from last September's Hurricane Floyd has been revised upwards from $1....
Names choose limited liability.
Lloyd's Names are increasingly converting to limited liability, suggesting that they plan to continu...
New look for a new century.
Welcome to the new-look Reinsurance. Not for us a one-off issue to mark the new millennium, instead ...
Watch the web.
Three month's ago Reinsurance launched its website and we have been delighted with the response it h...
Yachtline pulls out.
Insurance intermediary Yachtline has pulled out of its acquisition by marine insurer CNA Maritime. Y...
LPC up for sale.
The Loss Prevention Council is to be sold by its present owners, the Association of British Insurers...
Appointment at Audatex.
Audatex has appointed Mike Williams as a business analyst to focus on product enhancement. Previousl...
Cox Insurance launches website.
Cox Insurance has launched its own website, www.insure.co.uk. As well as offering motor and travel i...
Appointment at Kiln Underwriting.
Steve Tidd has been promoted to active underwriter of the motor division of Kiln Syndicate 510. He j...
Brewtiful collections.
Mix beer and wine - you're fine' goes the saying, and it's certainly true for those people who dabble in collecting antique alcohol. Alex Broad meets the insurers and experts in this field.
Life firms named as favourites to buy Lincoln UK.
Allied Dunbar Life and Canada Life will be among the front-runners to buy the UK arm of Lincoln Nati...
Irish eyes smiling.
Legal expenses insurer DAS has returned a record year from its Ireland operation with gross premium ...
Competent Complinet.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Allianz loses out to rivals.
Investors in the German insurance market are being advised to shun giant Allianz in favour of the se...
Insurers welcome the end of tie-ins.
The government's decision to end compulsory mortgage tie-ins has been welcomed by insurers. Under...
St Paul to keep UK arm.
UK-based non-life insurer and reinsurer Unionamerica will continue to operate as a stand-alone opera...
ABI launch whiplash campaign
The Association of British Insurers has launched a campaign to halve the £1bn insurance bill caused b...
Claim tips off cops.
An insurance fraud arising out of an alleged seizure by pirates of a £2m yacht involved in a drug de...
Beep, beep benefit.
Road Runner, the specialist motor trade insurer, has included an additional benefit under its road r...
Ockham on highway out of Lloyd's
Ockham has been granted permission to establish a Financial Services Authority regulated motor insura...
Affirmative, it's a negative.
Four Lloyd's syndicates have been given a negative outlook in rating agency Moody's latest appraisal...
Motor book to be scrapped?
Iron Trades' motor business could be under threat following its acquisition by Australian insurer QB...