Insurer
Select & Protect reveals rise in new business
Half-year results show 14% increase despite down turn on mortgage market.
QBE wins Marsh tender for Swedish business
Broker acts as cover holder on portfolio programmes.
Novae’s new reinsurance unit to operate from London and Zurich
Novae takes on 12-strong team of senior reinsurance professionals.
AIG sued by customers for not covering Madoff losses
AIG customers with homeowners’ policies have accused the company in a lawsuit of denying coverage for losses suffered in Madoff’s scheme.
Novae launches reinsurance arm
Novae Re expected to write over £100m in GWP.
New MGA launched to service the PI market
Tobell Insurance Services Group sets up its own underwriting agency, to cover PI lines including architects and engineers.
QBE announces 19% profit hike for first half of 2009
CEO O'Halloran confident after average premium rate increases around 4% and European GWP increases by 26%.
A healthy outlook
Lynn Rouse meets Catherine McLoughlin, chair of the UK Rehabilitation Council, to talk about the body's coming election and address concerns and criticisms recently raised.
Cards on the table
The AA has pressed ahead with its controversial 'pay-as-paid' scheme. Sarah Hills reports on how the bet appears to have paid off and what it could mean for premium finance providers.
Green footprints
Ana Paula Nacif reports on the debate about how to accommodate more sustainable building materials and techniques, without increasing property risk.
The future of modelling
Once the preserve of geeks, financial modelling is almost mainstream today, although there is still much more to achieve. Andrzej Czernusewicz concludes this three-part series with a look into the future of modelling.
Black swan theory
Unlike bankers, insurers have so far averted trouble in the recession. But, how much of this is due in part to the effective use of modelling and can this help them stay out of trouble? Rachel Gordon speaks to key market figures about modelling…
From first steps
It is a decade since Post launched its Rehabilitation First campaign. Mark Baylis charts the progress achieved over the past 10 years, and what more could be done to encourage the use of rehabilitation within the insurance industry.