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Endsleigh ties up IBM web analytics deal
Endsleigh bosses hope to improve the completion rate of online insurance applications after signing up to IBM's Coremetrics Web Analytics.
RSA joins forces with UN to promote sustainable insurance
RSA is one of 30 companies and associations across the insurance industry to join a United Nations-backed set of Principles for Sustainable Insurance.
Risk Technology partners with Fresh Insurance for telematics launch
Risk Technology has joined forces with Fresh Insurance to offer a telematics car insurance product called Autosaint.
LV hires new chief investment officer
LV has appointed former Unilever fund manager Wendy Mayall as chief investment officer.
MGAs need to focus on EL and PL changes, BLM urges
Managing general agents have been urged to consider the implications of changes in costs regimes and processes for handling employers' liability and public liability claims, due to be implemented in 2013.
Allianz makes string of new hires
Allianz has boosted its commercial and legal protection divisions with four new appointments.
Olympics Countdown: Q&A with Hannah Cockroft
With just a month to go to the games, Caravan Guard-sponsored wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft talks McFly, heterochromia and spaghetti bolognese.
Axa and Aviva join UN sustainable insurance group
General insurance giants Axa and Aviva have signed up to the UN-backed Principles for Sustainable Insurance.
RSA signs up to UN sustainable insurance initiative
RSA has joined an UN-backed set of Principles for Sustainable Insurance which aims to provide tools for risk management in support of environmental, social and economic sustainability.
Food liability insurance in China: a promising market yet to take off
China has recently faced a number of food scandals leading to a public outcry for safer products. Artemisia Ng investigates whether insurers have the appetite to underwrite this market.
European investors warned over hidden flood exposures in international interests
European investors in emerging markets and their insurers need to be more aware of possible exposure to flood risk, according to Swiss Re's head of flood risk.
View from the top: Civil litigation costs at a crossroads
Despite a seemingly unpredictable and punishing costs regime, the UK has remained the world's preferred location for solving disputes over the past decade.
Guest blog: EU Sustainable Energy Week
This week is European Union Sustainable Energy Week, seven days dedicated to promoting and celebrating the use of renewable energy across Europe.
Ecclesiastical pledges support for new scrap metal bill
Church insurer Ecclesiastical has welcomed a private member's bill clamping down on metal theft by giving police and councils more power.
Ace appoints president for personal lines and commercial
Ace Group has appointed Darryl Page as division president for international personal and business insurance.
RSA creates dedicated Asian business
Global insurer RSA has restructured its Asia Middle East business to provide a stronger focus on Asia as its own region.
NIG introduces underwriting manager for Scotland
NIG has vowed to further strengthen its proposition in Scotland following the appointment of Neil Bowen as area underwriting manager.
Scrap metal bill to get second reading in House of Commons
A Private Member's Bill that would give local councils and the police greater powers to suspend and revoke the licences of dodgy scrap metal dealers is to undergo a second reading in the House of Commons next month.
Allianz recruits partnership development boss
Allianz Insurance has appointed Richard Nettleship as partnership development manager for the firm's corporate partner division.
Vienna Insurance committed to CEE, but no return to Russia in the pipeline
Vienna Insurance Group's new chief has reiterated the firm's commitment to investing in central and eastern Europe.
Compare the Market makes insurance boss promotion
Compare the Market has promoted Simon McCulloch to director of insurance.
Argo appoints director of alternative risk capital
Argo Group has appointed Mark Gibson to the new role of director of alternative risk capital.