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Swiss Life in UK push.
Swiss Life has made a greater push for the UK medical insurance market, with the purchase of occupat...
Aviation claims soar to £1.3bn.
Aviation claims returned to average levels last year, following 1999, which was the safest year on r...
Barclays and Legal & General in talks
It is understood that Barclays is in talks with insurer Legal & General over the bank selling its sta...
FSA ducks question on tied-agents.
The Financial Service Authority's decision to relax polarisation regulations for certain product lin...
Belfor Relectronic branch expansion.
Disaster recovery and business continuity company Belfor Relectronic, which was formed by the merger...
Appointment at Audatex.
Audatex has promoted Paul Tucker to managing director from the role of general manager, which he has...
IMVA makes tracks.
Hull-based IMVA, the company behind the National Mileage Register, has purchased Salisbury-based veh...
The Claims People gets off the blocks
New loss adjuster The Claims People Group, which is focused on personal lines and small commercial ad...
Permanent branding to stay.
The Permanent Insurance brand is expected to be retained, following the sale by Equitable Life of th...
Wind-up threat to insurers.
A new European Union directive that aims to give policyholders more protection when insurers go into...
New board for GISC.
The General Insurance Standards Council's proposals for increasing the representation of its board f...
Eureko recruits second UK partner to its fold.
The pan-European consortium of insurers Eureko has recruited its second UK partner by acquiring inve...
Insurers must take a European stance.
European insurance companies' failure to take a company view on cross-border issues is seriously ham...
Kott heads Wellington in US
Stanley Kott has been promoted to chief executive of the US subsidiary of the Lloyd's property and ca...
Unemployment initiative from Goodfellows
Protection underwriter Goodfellows has launched a new package of stand alone income protection insura...
GISC plan to increase transparency
The General Insurance Standards Council's plan to increase the transparency and representation on its...
Liverpool Vic snaps up Permanent
Equitable Life has sealed a £150m deal to sell Permanent Insurance to Liverpool Victoria. Permanent...
Qantas orders 'superjumbo'.
Airbus looks certain to build its huge A3XX "superjumbo" (artist's impression above with mock-up) fo...
Panel power.
Peter Chaffetz and Cecilia Froelich take a look at the power of US arbitration panels to compel third-party discovery.
London market reform accepted.
More than 20 London market companies had, by early December, signed up to a raft of measures aimed a...
FSA to review role.
The Financial Services Authority is to review its role in the Equitable Life saga, Treasury minister...
ABI pursues GISC cause.
The Association of British Insurers is to actively pursue members who are 'ambivalent' to the Genera...
Appointment at JK Buckenham.
Neal James-Crook has recently joined the board of independent Lloyd's broker JK Buckenham from Aon G...
Axa wins orphan dispute
Insurer Axa has won its case in the High Court concerning the future of its orphan funds, in a case w...