Regulation
Marine moves.
Reliance National Insurance (Europe) has relocated its London-based marine hull and cargo division f...
Hutter quits Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has lost the world's most senior female reinsurer - Heidi Hutter - as a result of the merge...
Back for more.
The famed complexity of life in Italy is reflected in its reinsurance market - and foreign companies joining in has made it even more complicated. Adrian Leonard reports.
Overexposed?
Christine Gomes explains why the directors and officers of captive insurers should make sure of the extent of their professional liability cover.
Zurich's Asian base.
Zurich Re has opened an office in Malaysia's offshore financial services centre on Labuan. The branc...
Swiss Re buys Underwriters.
Swiss Re is moving more strongly into broker reinsurance in the US by buying property/casualty reins...
Looking after their own.
Insurers are increasingly turning to group retention vehicles in an attempt to retain their most profitable business. Adrian Leonard reports.
Making all the right moves.
While the Financial Services Authority has sensibly held back from stoking the flames of consumer fe...
Funds shun insurers.
Insurers are being shunned by two of California's largest pension funds who have done deals directly...
Pru in fresh scandal.
A whistleblower in insurer Prudential's US operation claims the company cheated customers over life ...
ABI's man from Pru.
The British Damage Management Association has confirmed that Andy Tomlinson, Prudential claims servi...
A safe way to sell mortgages.
The Association of British Insurers has drawn up a 10-point plan to safeguard endowment mortgage cus...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Leave for all fire services across Britain has been cancelled over the New Ye...
Appointment at Cornwell Affiliates.
Bernard Levins, a specialist in insurance and other financial services, has joined strategic consult...
Pru in China deal.
Prudential is to form a joint venture with China International Trust and Investment Corp (CITIC) in ...
North Sea to stay calm
Ace Bermuda Insurance, Lloyd's syndicates reinsured into Equitas and CGU will all benefit from the ju...
Insurers act on endowments as FSA rejects inquiry
The insurance industry has drawn up a ten point plan to safeguard endowment mortgage customers follow...
Pru joint venture in China
Prudential is to form a joint venture with China International Trust and Investment Corp (CITIC) in G...
Come clean and start again.
The Treasury has the most outrageous cheek to suggest that companies selling Individual Savings Acco...
Casual staff were not employees.
In 1989, National Power advertised for the posts of station guides and subsequently offered the jobs...
Setting standards.
A new range of National Vocational Qualifications is explained by Sarah Johnson.
Appointment at Hiscox.
Specialist insurer Hiscox has appointed Charles Dupplin to head its pan-European high-net worth unde...
Don't be fooled over the Millennium Bug.
The year 2000 continues to pervade the press and no doubt as it draws ever closer there will be more...
Appointment at Wellington Underwriting.
Stanley Kott has been appointed senior vice-president and a member of the board of US compnay Wellin...