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Metal theft on the rise as scrap prices increase
Risk management experts from Allianz are calling on brokers to be proactive about metal theft, following a spate of robberies that have left the company facing millions of pounds in losses.
Allianz selects repair partners
Allianz has selected building maintenance firm Mitie and insurance repair specialist MA Assist for its nationwide building repair.
News analysis - Lancashire Tax move: Bringing business back to Blighty
With Lancashire set to move its tax residence to the UK, Amy Ellis looks at proposed reforms to the controlled foreign companies rules and asks whether other insurers may follow suit.
Post history - 10 year ago: £200m bill for insurers after cash call
Looking through Post’s back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance news, as this highlight from 10 years ago reveals.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny likes to think she scrubs up pretty well but she was certainly left in the shade when tan-tastic The Only Way is Essex star Amy Childs strutted past in Soho during a coffee break with Concise PR director Alex Wise.
RSA boss: CMCs not cause of referral fees
RSA's UK chief executive Adrian Brown has called for action against "hefty" lawyer fees and the amount they pay claims management companies rather than targeting CMCs themselves.
View from the top: Equality at the table
Insurance has long been a business that thrives on relationships, between brokers and insurers, brokers and clients and the holy grail of all three working together. These relationships vary in depth and longevity from the transactional to the long term…
LV backs fun run
LV has agreed to sponsor next year's Brentwood Half Marathon and Fun Run — an event that has raised more than £1m for the local rotary club over the past 30 years.
Gay-only deal website looks to add insurance products to portfolio
A former loss adjuster, who left the industry when his firm went bust to set up Europe's first gay-only deal website, is considering teaming up with insurers to expand.
Post history - 30 years ago: Insurers wait for Salem appeal result
Looking through Post’s back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance news, as this highlight from 30 years ago reveals.
Career development & CSR: Paralympian goes for gold with Chaucer sponsorship
One of the UK's top wheelchair rugby players is hoping support from Chaucer will give him the backing he needs to realise his Paralympic medal dream.
Judge rules on National Trust negligence case
A High Court judge has ruled that the National Trust was not to blame for the death of an 11-year-old schoolboy fatally crushed by a branch in woods in Norfolk.
Allianz voted 'most green' insurer
Allianz has been voted the most environmentally sound insurer in the latest Best Global Green Brands. The eco-friendly firm, which was ranked 21st in the overall brand listings, has risen 46 places from its 2010 position in the annual Interbrand survey.
Does bad management affect business performance?
Recent research from the Chartered Management Institute found that 55% of employees do not think their managers are competent or confident enough in their roles. According to the CMI, "perhaps more worryingly, 38% of employees report that their boss…
Broking focus - Regulation: The new broom
The Financial Conduct Authority will assume responsibility for the regulation of brokers taking over from the Financial Services Authority at the end of 2012. The Institute of Insurance Brokers, the British Insurance Brokers' Association and the London &…
Editor's comment: The wheels of industry
The schools may be out for summer and European business fast grinding to a halt as workers decamp to the coast but it's good to see the wheels of British commerce continue to turn, albeit at a rather less than frenetic pace.
Postbox: Squaring a difficult circle
David Bonehill's letter 'Bursting for Improvement' quite correctly referenced the scale of the burst pipe and escape-of-water claims either side of last Christmas. He also correctly identified the finite resource that is the UK loss adjusting profession…
Allianz beats Aviva and Zurich in resort deal
Allianz Commercial has landed a £200 000 three-year deal with a luxury spa resort and golf club that hosted the Ryder Cup last year.
People moves – 4 August 2011
A round-up of people moves and new appointments in the industry, as featured in the 4 August 2011 edition of Post.
Post Magazine – 4 August 2011
This week the Post team reports on Lloyd’s decision to begin investigating Equity syndicate’s reserve deterioration. A Names protest group says the outcome should prove influential to its own campaign over Equity’s losses.
Lloyd’s pursues own probe into Equity syndicate losses – Insurance News Now
Post senior reporter Amy Ellis outlines this week's major general insurance stories including Lloyd’s decision to begin investigating Equity syndicate’s reserve deterioration. A Names protest group says the outcome should prove influential to its own…
XL boss hails Q2/H1 2011 performance as among the best of its peers
XL has announced a fall in net income for the first six months of 2011 to $80.1m (H1 2010: $392.3m) on gross written premiums of $3.8bn (H1 2010: $3.43bn).
Lloyd's building is best of the 1980s
It has been described as an oil rig, Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, a life support machine and, by some, an eye sore but the Lloyd’s building is London’s favourite 1980s building.