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Aviva to cut 100 staff in John Kitson's division
Changes linked with announcement about broker sales and marketing restructure.
UK General hires medical assistance firm
Healix to work with newly formed business
ABI welcomes flood bill
Bill spells good news for homeowners
Councils gain more powers to manage floods
Flood and Water Management Bill published today
Rate rises scuppered by competition
Aon predicts "slower than predicted" increases in 2010
Lloyd’s report says microinsurance provides opportunities for all
Insurance for low income individuals can play an important role in helping communities in developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to provide the security needed to develop long term sustainability projects, according to Lloyd’s.
Ace: Recession creating supply chain risk
Insurer calls on businesses to mitigate exposure
Brit director joins Markel
Hugh Maltby appointed operations director
Helphire and Hastings join forces
Credit hire firm to provide motor customers with replacement vehicles
Zurich appoints private clients head
Matthew Schofield joins private clients, broker division
FHA may collapse as US struggles with recession
The Federal Housing Administration may collapse and thousands of regional banks may go under as the US continues to struggle with recession, sources attending a US conference have told Reinsurance.
Manulife to raise $2.7bn to fund takeovers
Manulife, the US’s largest insurer by market value, plans to sell as much as $2.7bn in stock to build up capital and finance possible takeovers.
Woolf issues contingency fees warning
Move to US-style fee structure could "destroy professional standards"
UK takaful insurer into run-off reveals Post
The self-proclaimed first Shariah-compliant general insurer in the UK, Salaam Halal Insurance, has gone into solvent run-off, Post Magazine revealed exclusively this week.
Marsh aviation boss comes out of retirement to lead insurer push
Ironshore agrees deal with Starr to enter market.
Chaucer ahead of schedule
CEO Ewen Gilmour also encouraged by prospects for 2010.
Need for speed
Removing the need for paper in the accounts payable department might not only go some way to saving the planet, but could also help to keep suppliers happy by speeding up the payment process, writes Stefan Foryszewski.
The appliance of science
With more than 17 000 pollution incidents in England and Wales in 2007, Dr Jon Burton looks at how clean-up costs can be cut by adopting innovative techniques.