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GE Frankona Re exits cargo & freight liability
GE Frankona Reinsurance is withdrawing from the UK cargo & freight liability market, worth some £18m ...
GE Frankona Re exits UK cargo & freight
GE Frankona Reinsurance is withdrawing from the UK cargo & freight liability market, worth some £18m ...
AIG: speculation grows over personal lines.
Speculation that US-insurer AIG is to significantly increase its foothold in the personal lines mark...
Thousands wasted on the buses.
Insurance company engineers are wasting thousands of pounds a year on poor valuations of special veh...
InsurE-com total up.
Insurance software house insurE-com has claimed the registration of 278 more intermediaries followin...
St Paul legal stretch.
The St Paul has extended its free partnership replacement plan to all its 2-15 partner firms. Under ...
Not so Goodfellows on disability site.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Self-regulation failed.
Staged in Kilkenny, this year's Insurance Institute of Ireland annual conference concentrated on the industry's need to prevent complacency within the industry threatening the advances already made. Edward Murray reports.
A Day in the Life of... a restoration specialist
Jamie Nash has won royal acclaim for his work as a restoration specialist for Munters. Richard Adams spent a day with him and discovered that even faced with the worst flooding in Kent for many years, it all came out in the wash.
New risks must be addressed.
The trend towards increasing reliance on self-insurance among risk managers should be setting alarm b...
Exaxe to attack UK market.
Irish IT consulting and software development company Exaxe is gearing up for an assault on the UK ma...
Supporting age-old scourge of uninsured drivers.
Twenty five years ago, an attempt to was made to stop the scourge of uninsured drivers as reported i...
Off-road campaign.
Universal Salvage has collected over 1000 signatures for its petitition as part of a campaign launch...
Film finance suffers a repayment blow.
Film finance insurers received a blow last week when the Court of Appeal ruled that HIH was not enti...
Retail gear shift.
Non-traditional players could soon move towards underwriting their own motor insurance policies, mar...
New NU rates as duo split.
Norwich Union has introduced new rates across its motor portfolio, which it hopes will stamp out "un...
Devitt rescue deal.
Winterthur subsidiary and specialist motorcycle broker Devitt Insurance Services has launched Devitt...
R&M takes off.
Aviation company R&M International Engineering is set to unveil a new service for insurers tomorrow,...
Claims firm to fix prices.
A new claims company aims to shake up the subsidence claims market by introducing a savings guarante...
GAB Robins investigates City University fire.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins is investigating a fire that engulfed City University in London last week. S...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny was disconcerted this week to hear that her loss adjusting and press colleagues were being giv...
Swiss Re releases share value
Swiss Re's shareholders have approved a reduction in the nominal value of the group's shares from SFr...
Indie falls 13% amid rescue rights rumour
Independent Insurance Group fell 13% mid-afternoon today amid rumours of a rescue rights issue. The f...
Munich Re to focus on insurance
Reinsurer Munich Re, which this week forecast double-digit growth in net profit this year, said it pl...