Commercial
St Paul Re targets health reinsurance.
St Paul Re has formed a unit to write health treaty reinsurance outside the US, focusing on managed ...
Appointment at XL Capital.
James Veghte, executive vice-president of Bermudian reinsurer XL Mid Ocean Re, has moved to head up ...
Job goes to Sutton.
The marketing manager post at Independent Insurance vacated by Michael Gaughan is to be taken by Gra...
IIB targets Internet sales.
The Institute of Insurance Intermediaries is launching a new company to help brokers compete for Int...
Salesmen in death plunge.
Two salesmen at a conference in Manchester died after falling through an eighth floor window. Dan...
It's life, but not as we know it.
The death of the traditional life office has been announced. Like the dinosaur they are poised to be...
Exclusive - £1.5m hole in Willis books.
Broker Willis is staring into a £1.5m financial hole which has been found in the accounts of its Lee...
Digital sales talk.
Digital TV is set to kick-off as a vehicle for insurance sales, according to speculation surrounding...
IBM targets personal lines.
IBM Global Insurance has unveiled the latest stage in its insurance marketing product, DecisionEdge,...
Appointment at Scottish Mutual.
Scottish Mutual Portfolio Managers has made two appointments. Kathryn Wood becomes investment manage...
NU's bargain web deal.
Insurance intermediaries can now untangle the mystery of the Web thanks to Norwich Union. The ins...
Woolf Reforms pushing up costs.
Far from reducing the cost of litigation as intended, the Woolf reforms are costing insurers more, a...
Trend spotting.
Convergence with the capital markets will join the current reinsurance trends of globalisation and the 'flight to quality' in the next decade, predicts Donald Watson, director of Standard & Poor's in New York.
Net sales support.
Brokat has launched an interactive Internet sales support application combining call centre and web ...
Iron Trades on track for Top 10.
Iron Trades appears to be steering a steady course in its bid to become one of the top 10 UK general...
Insurers clash after law gets its first test.
A groundbreaking High Court judgment has left two insurance companies at loggerheads. Bernadone v...
Nordic merger.
Skandia has confirmed it is to ditch its Nordic non-life companies and merge them with those of othe...
How an insurer helped move old house of God in new mysterious ways.
I would like to recognise the outstanding way that my insurance company, NIG Skandia, and the adjust...
Appointment at Towergate Underwriting Group.
Lynda Thwaites has joined Towergate Underwriting group as human resources co-ordinator. Previously s...
Insurers behind in digital TV stakes.
Insurers are lagging behind banks when it comes to selling insurance products via digital TV, a surv...
Indy's profits are up but Bright is gloomy.
Independent Insurance has reported interim profits of £29.3m, up 12% on last year's figures, with it...
Nissan to appeal against ruling.
Nissan has been given permission to appeal against a court ruling which ordered it to honour two rei...
Les is more.
Chief executive of Axa Sun Life Les Owen takes up the position of group managing director of Nationa...
Losses can't dent CGU profits.
CGU's interim results showed an operating profit of £420m, up 5% on 1998's figure. This was ach...