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Catlin Europe names new liability underwriter
Catlin Europe has confirmed that Detlef Offenhau has joined the company as senior liability underwriter for Europe.
View from the top: Time to share fraud data
Industry fraud statistics are normally presented as a good news story. Last year, insurers stopped 122 000 frauds, preventing payment of a huge £840m.
Catlin Europe names new liability underwriter
Catlin Europe has confirmed that Detlef Offenhau has joined the company as senior liability underwriter for Europe.
Axa names new finance director
Waseem Malik, Axa's former head of M&A, has been appointed to the role of finance director at the insurer.
Chaucer recruits former Axa CEO Wood as non-exec
Chaucer Holdings has appointed Mark Wood as a non-executive director from today. He joins the audit, remuneration and nomination committees, and following FSA approval, will become a non-executive director of Chaucer Syndicates, the group’s Lloyd’s…
Rok to create 50 new jobs following £40m Axa contract win
Rok, the maintenance and building services group, has signed a contract with Inter Partner Assistance, a wholly owned subsidiary of Axa Assistance to provide home emergency services to its UK customers.
Post in print - 26 August 2010
Post senior reporter Leigh Jackson outlines the main news from this week's issue of Post.
Penny Black's insurance week
Ecclesiastical invited Penny and a bunch of insurance hacks for a snoop around Wellington Arch and Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington, last week.
Postscript - 10 years ago: Axa merger unveiled
Looking back through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance news, this highlight from 10 years ago reveals.
Climate change - flood defences: Manning the defences
With the government cutting the budget for flood and coastal risk management and the coming expiry of the Statement of Principles, Amy Ellis looks at the future of flood defence.
Long chase for true Brit
Little more than a month ago I mused on the vacant position of UK chief executive at Brit Insurance, as the insurer looked to replace Peter Burrows.
Meehan throws hat in ring for senior Axa commercial role
Axa Insurance customer experience director Paul Meehan has expressed interest in filling the senior management vacancy in the company's commercial division.
Axa CEO Maso insists it has no plans to sell broking arm Bluefin
Axa has insisted that it has no intention of selling its Bluefin Insurance Group and remains fully committed to the distribution market.
Health insurance - IPT rise: A bitter pill
With the failure of the industry's efforts to persuade the Treasury to freeze, or indeed lower, insurance premium tax on private medical insurance, Veronica Cowan looks at what it would take to lobby more effectively.
RSA spotlight - Andy Haste: Playing the long game pays off for Haste
Following his interview with former RSA CEO Bob Mendelsohn and the news that RSA has approached Aviva to buy its UK, Irish and Canadian general insurance assets, Jonathan Swift reflects on the general insurance career of the company's current CEO Andy…
Brokers worry about client choice as RSA bids for Aviva
Brokers have voiced concern that RSA's £5bn bid for parts of Aviva's general insurance business, including the UK, could ultimately limit client choice and competition.
First RSA, now Axa is linked with Aviva swoop
Aviva's share price has continued to rise today despite its rejection of RSA's £5bn bid amid speculation that others may be interested.
IFB welcomes landmark fraud convictions
Two brothers behind one of the UK’s biggest 'crash for cash' scams have been convicted.
Post Magazine - 12 August 2010
The August 12 edition of Post magazine is now available to subscribers as a digital interactive e-book.
Post in print - 12 August 2010
Post reporter Amy Ellis outlines the main news from this week's issue of Post.
Axa goes live with commercial combined product on Acturis
Following a successful pilot, Axa is releasing its commercial combined e-trade product to all brokers on the Acturis platform on an open market basis.
Axa chief hails 'one-off' CL opportunity
Axa Insurance is preparing to unveil a restructure of its commercial division after revenues in the first six months fell by 18% year-on-year.
Axa and Aviva tread carefully as large commercial rates stagnate
Aviva and Axa have admitted the lack of rate hardening in commercial lines has dampened their appetite for some larger risks, at least in the short term.
Axa boss joins Zurich UK operation
Zurich’s UK general insurance division has appointed Peter Clark as head of property and strategy exposure management, commercial lines.