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Mergers: money for nothing?
Big is not beautiful. Nor is it good for staff, industry competition or customer service. These are ...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has made four new appointments to its sales team. Neil Peters will become the ...
Unitas moves up with Scottish signing.
Broker network Unitas has signed up Aberdeen-based Central Insurance Services as its 10th member, ex...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The Baltic Exchange this week pledged to support a legal challenge to the gov...
Caught in the crossfire.
While their is no magical solution to the distressing process of being fired, Robert Charles explains how to look after your own interests and avoid being caught out.
Closure completed.
Broker Heath Lambert has completed the closure of its Southend back-office operation, and is looking...
Broker team defects to AHJ.
A 12-strong non-marine reinsurance team has defected from Lloyd's broker Heath Lambert to join rival...
Europa opens treaty office in Dublin.
Europa Re has opened a subsidiary in Dublin to write non-marine treaty reinsurance. Europa Re (Du...
PR pensions online.
Public relations professionals will soon be able to buy pensions online, following the latest affini...
Ryan to join Unitas network.
Ryan Insurance Group of Ipswich is to join the independent broker network Unitas pushing its members...
No publicity is bad publicity?
"Insurance publicity, they say, compared with that of other interests - financial and otherwise - do...
Rhine takes new routes.
Rhine Re is putting last year's major losses behind it and hitting the acquisition trail. New chief executive Dennis Purkiss tells Cameron Andrews about his plans.
Commentary - Mutual status: the best option?
In Equitable Life v Hyman, the court held that directors' wide-ranging discretion under the company'...
CGNU: more closures due?
CGNU has refused to rule out the possibility that other London market operations could be shut down ...
Sirius takes to the road.
Technology solutions and systems provider Policy Master hopes to recruit 300 brokers for Sirius, its...
Oxford put on hold.
The broker-only syndicate Oxford, which was due to start trading on Tuesday, has delayed its opening...
LPC processing down to five days.
The London Processing Centre has exceeded its service level standards for the second quarter of 2000...
Brum in Euro co-op.
Birmingham broker Perkins Slade has been appointed UK partner for the European network International...
Orphan assets look set to go to good homes.
Any move to release from dormancy the estimated £20bn in orphan assets held by the UK's life insurer...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH David Harding is to make the transition from pensions to patents when he take...
Aon Aviation Re restructures
Aon Aviation Re, part of reinsurance broker Aon Re Worldwide, has been renamed Aviation Consultancy a...
The third phase.
David Neave, personal lines claims and IT guru at Royal & Sun Alliance, explains to Adrian Leonard his vision of the revolutionary way in which insurers must approach the claims function.
Penny Black's insurance week.
Congratulations must go this week to two legends of the golf course: Tiger Woods for his breathtakin...
Local voices give the CII a national shout.
With reference to Sue Hibberd's letter (PM 8 June, p16), the selection process for the elections to ...