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Insurer to pay £125m.
State Farm, the largest property and motor insurer in the United States, has agreed to pay around £1...
Fire raged through Bath Street in London.
Adjusters are still counting the cost to insurers after fire raged through properties in Bath Street...
Mondial picks UNIFACE.
Mondial Assistance, one of the world's leading providers of motor, medical and legal customer assist...
Six of the best for Canvey but fans ask 'Who are Axa?'.
In the first in a series of articles. PM follows Axa as it seeks a return on its £41m FA Cup investment.
First Active team rise to rebranding challenge.
Leading flexible mortgage provider, Mortgage Trust, officially became First Active Financial last we...
Chubb Re aims to take on the world.
US insurance giant Chubb is to enter the global reinsurance market with the creation of a new subsid...
Appointment at Ace.
Robert Patten has been appointed vice-president, excess liability at Ace Insurance. Mr Patten joined...
Chartwell specialises.
US reinsurer Chartwell Re increased second quarter operating income to $7.4m in 1998, up from $6.7m ...
Shipping losses improve again.
Merchant shipping losses continued to fall in the second quarter of this year, according to the late...
All open and above-board.
Robert Hiscox responds to Robert Miller's criticisms last month of the actions of Lloyd's agents in advising Names to sell their capacity.
Appointment at LCCA.
Robert Hiscox, chairman of Hiscox plc, has been appointed chairman of the Lloyd's Corporate Capital ...
France's non-life nightmare.
As the French property and casualty industry continues its major restructuring, Moody's Martin Mills sees problems ahead for the industry.
Less regulation, more red ink.
Deregulation and liberalisation have made the German insurance market one of the most competitive in Europe - and rates have plummeted, says Adrian Leonard.
Appointment at Hiscox.
Gloria Davis has been appointed senior cargo underwriter on Hiscox syndicate 33. Ms Davis joins from...
Summer sees merger frenzy.
Merger mania has continued apace during the so-called 'silly season'. There are certainly plenty ...
Scottish risk managers gather at Stirling.
The Association of Local Authority Risk Managers in Scotland held its first conference and exhibitio...
Nothing worth cheering about.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Norwich Union Risk Services announces training programmes.
Norwich Union Risk Services has announced details of three new training programmes for 1998. The cou...
AA in EDI link up.
AA Insurance has gone live with GAN Alpha as its first panel member to use industry quotation and ED...
The insurance man who arrested Hess.
In early September 1948 Post Magazine was filling its pages with previews of the forthcoming Charter...
What the papers say.
THE SUN Businessman KIM Barrett was amazed when he was given legal aid - to sue legal aid chiefs....
SURL warns syndicates.
Moody's SURL has warned that fierce competition in the global insurance markets will leave many Lloy...
Toplis sleuths rumble fraudster.
The crime-busting Watford branch of the McLarens Toplis Special Investigating Unit has rumbled a cro...
Farming out claims.
Over two fifths of UK farmers made an insurance claim last year. This discovery was made by farm ins...