Commercial
RenRe's income down
Property catastrophe reinsurer RenaissanceRe has reported a $5.9m drop in net income after realised l...
Bolam says insurers are broker-phobic.
Simon Bolam, chairman of the British Insurance Brokers' Association, has called on insurers to stamp...
New faces at ABI.
The Association of British Insurers has made two senior appointments. Alan Woods, currently direc...
E-mortgage coup for providers.
Two mortgage specialists aim to help mortgage introducers with new online services. First Active ...
Boys in the black stuff.
The Irish financial services market is currently booming as the Celtic Tiger sinks its claws into the international market. Jonathan Swift reports on how some of the new entrants in Dublin aim to win their stripes.
Bankhall bought by Lynx.
Independent financial adviser network Bankhall has sold out to international IT solution provider Ly...
Judicial Review, High Court.
23 March 2000 An employee was killed by the jaws of a crane grab on his first day at work. He had...
Accidents or damage to vehicles cost nearly £1m a week.
Compensation to drivers, cyclists and pedestrians for accidents or damage to vehicles caused by poor...
dot.com pensions.
A new London-based company Quote-master.com has launched an Internet service which enables companies...
Heritage goes round the houses.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Appointment at DAS Legal Expenses.
DAS Legal Expenses has made two new appointments. Lyndon Willshire has been made corporate business ...
Country and western.
Eric Alexander discovers how the UK and US political risks market is coping with turbulent times in other parts of the world.
Burn your budgets.
The Inspiration Group, which includes Prudential, Aon and HSBC, has been warned that agility, hunger...
Munich Re to go on spending spree.
The news that giant German reinsurer Munich Re plans acquisitions in all of its key business areas w...
AIFA happy to become host.
Members of IFA Association Critical Illness Working Party have unanimously accepted the Association ...
JLT decides to risk solutions.
International broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has lured a senior team on board to set up a new practic...
Dial calls up CSC.
Dial Direct, Coventry-based intermediary GF Bennett's motor call centre operation, is to install a n...
Quality is key - and you can quote me on that.
A number of the remarks attributed to me ('Cash hike plan will ruin Lloyd's says director', PM 6 Apr...
Get cracking.
David Fanning reports that councils and their insurers must be aware of court decisions and new legislation otherwise they may find themselves on the receiving end of massive claims.
Men at the top.
Lloyd's chief executive Nick Prettejohn, GISC chief executive Chris Woodburn, CII chairman Reg Brown...
Brokers must wake up to the business realities of 2000.
A small section of the broking community - and a vocal one at last week's British Insurance Brokers ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny must admit it was lovely to see Vizards Staples & Bannisters partner Caroline Berens musing on...
No life in e-selling.
Life companies are still failing to embrace the Internet three years after a majority claimed they h...
Local underwriting for local brokers.
Allianz Cornhill is to set up a network of local commercial underwriting teams for brokers. Based...