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Repairer gutted in every sense.
A motor repairer is facing bankruptcy for starting a blaze which caused damage estimated at £3m and ...
Chubb goes online.
Chubb has launched an online quotation system for brokers. The first Chubb cover available on Soluti...
Zurich acts to promote new star in province.
Zurich has strengthened its Northern Ireland operation by launching a personal lines business which ...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The launch of a giant poster of Kelly Brook, the former Big Breakfast present...
Steaming ahead.
The Standard Steamship Owners' Protection & Indemnity Association, which failed in its attempt to me...
MULRA plea to extend assessor inquiry.
Following a survey into the small print in ULR contracts, the Motor Uninsured Loss Recovery Associat...
They shoot, you sc.
Post Magazine is once again offering its readers the chance to snap up football tickets in the third...
South African office.
Lloyd's insurers Kiln has opened a subsidiary office in South Africa. Kiln South Africa will look...
Churchill eyes brokers to boost business.
Direct writer Churchill is about to burst on to the broker market. The insurer believes it could ...
Hot stuff for racy models.
Insurance product marketing company Holman is set to launch a non-standard motor scheme for brokers ...
Argyll's Sharpe buy.
Sussex broker Argyll Insurance Group has acquired Brighton-based insurance consultants Sharpe and Pa...
Arson guidebook.
The Fire Protection Association has compiled The Prevention and Control of Arson. It promotes a mult...
A lesson in co-operation.
Your article 'Police Probe Motor Scam' (PM 12 August, p1) illustrates how a spirit of co-operation c...
In need of discipline.
The UK property & casualty industry is in need of a shake-up according to a new report. Insurers working in the sector agree, but maintain they are already doing their bit to help. David Fanning reports.
Not up for grabs.
Loss adjuster Woodgate & Clark has denied it is seeking to cash-in on recent successes. CGU's decisi...
A to B in UK via AA.
AA cardholders can access free route information for anywhere in the UK on the AA's website at www.t...
Red phone firm rings in Internet changes.
Direct Line has launched a new website aimed at the motor and home insurance market (Internet sales ...
Re - 30 years - Messages ignored.
Trawling through the Reinsurance archive to compile this 30th anniversary issue (see pp25-39) has be...
Terra Nova sold to Markel for $905m.
US insurer Markel's agreement to pay $905m for Bermudian (re)insurer Terra Nova has received a cauti...
Twenty-twenty vision.
Twenty years ago, Andrew Drysdale, managing director of Andrew Drysdale Ltd, wrote of life, the universe and the underwriting cycle. His forthright and entertaining views still have relevance today.
Refocus - Le Mans Re - XL takes stake in French firm.
Bermuda's XL Capital has made a further foray into continental Europe by paying $95.75m for 49% of F...
Unsteady foundations.
Jeremy Golden finds reinsurers still eager to write catastrophe cover in East Asia in the wake of the region's financial crisis, despite soft rates and high risks.
Central co-operation.
Canadian group Co-operators has set up a captive - Co-operators of Canada Reinsurance International ...
Lawyers go east.
London-based law firm Cameron McKenna is expanding its (re)insurance activity in Asia through the Si...