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Lloyd's denies FBI interest.
Lloyd's has denied it has become embroiled in the fall out following the recent scandal in the Calif...
Pru sets up new company
Prudential has launched a new company, Scottish Amicable Financial Services, combining the existing ...
Zurich transfers 800 staff to IBM.
Zurich Financial Services' UK operation is looking to prune annual expenditure by £15m through an ou...
Axa: "No urgency" to replace Pru-bound Wood.
Axa is in no rush to replace its UK chief executive Mark Wood, who is to join the board of Prudentia...
London signs up to LMP2001 reforms.
A majority of organisations in the London market has now signed up to proposals for modernising proc...
Appointment at GE Re.
Karen Pachyn (right) has joined GE Re as chief actuary. She will be based at the Lincolnshire, Illin...
Fast track for EU reforms.
The prospect of reinsurers being able to trade more freely around the European Union (EU) has moved ...
News in brief - Life business in central and eastern Europe.
Life business in central and eastern Europe has been growing at 17.4% a year and non-life by 7.6% a ...
Appointment at PartnerRe.
PartnerRe has recruited Marvin Pestcoe to the new position of global head of new solutions. He will ...
Nuclear revival raises concerns.
Unlikely as it seems in the increasingly environmentally conscious world, nuclear energy is not just surviving but may even expand. Maria Kielmas investigates the liability issues.
Raising reinsurance standards.
Argentina's reinsurers and brokers have to abide by new rules, but they are not all happy, report Mauricio Kitaigorodzki and Vic Wyman.
Liquidator at a loss.
Steven Schwartz reviews Alabama Re's recent success in defeating an aggressive claim by the liquidator of Inter-American Insurance Company of Illinois.
Names continue to fight.
The organisation that represents Names who rejected the 1996 restructuring of Lloyd's has promised t...
Zimbabwe to sell state reinsurer
Zimbabwe Re said that the government of Zimbabwe had decided to sell its 56.75% stake in the company....
Lloyd's denies wrongdoing in Quackenbush case
Lloyd's has denied suggestions that it is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
Archaeological insurance is uncovered.
With regard to your news story Asbestos claims reach a dead-end (PM, 15 February, p1), I am a specia...
Aon goes to sea.
Aon Occupational & Health has cemented its position as a leading OH services provider to the North S...
Life goes on.
The fallout from the South-east Asian financial crisis has done little to hold back the life insurance business, in fact the region is proving very attractive to foreign insurers as many recent joint ventures have proved, says Jeremy Golden.
PMI promises are slammed.
Private health insurers this week welcomed a Conservative Party promise to make group private medica...
Chester Street buck passed.
The government has washed its hands of the Chester Street asbestos insurance claims debacle that has...
Wood to leave Axa for Pru
Mark Wood, chief executive of Axa UK, is to join the board of Prudential in the new role of chief exe...
Insurers admit partnerships not working
Almost half of the UK's insurers have admitted disappointment with their partnership deals with non-t...
Diversifying Halifax up 7%
The Halifax bank, which is taking over the troubled Equitable Life business, and which also now has ...
Winterthur sells off insurance arm
XL Capital is to acquire Winterthur International, the property and casualty insurance business of Wi...