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Joining for Elite.
Lawclub Legal Protection, the Bristol-based division of Cornhill Insurance, has joined forces with b...
Helphire sustains personal injury.
Car hire specialist Helphire intends to push ahead with plans to develop personal injury legal produ...
Claims fraud cracked.
Police are on the verge of cracking a nationwide motor fraud ring after a series of raids on an acci...
Appointment at Merricks.
Michael Lambert has been recruited as chief executive of Merricks. In addition, Richard Tinkler and ...
Appointment at David Fagen.
Adam Patt has joined London-based David Fagen as financial services director....
Appointment at Ace Europe.
Ace has appointed Colin McDonnell as UK sales manager for the multinational risk solutions team. Mr ...
Broker wins endurance contract
British Equestrian Insurance Brokers has been appointed the official insurance broker to the British ...
Hiscox spurns Chubb.
Hiscox's management this week rejected the overtures of US giant Chubb despite being offered the opp...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Chubb's move for Hiscox last week did not come as a surprise to many in the London market. And certa...
Confusion of risk managers means insurers are missing out.
Insurers who specialise in technology risks are missing out on business because corporate risk manag...
Kennedys takes on Mills & Reeve partners for NHS legal panel.
City law firm Kennedys has been appointed to the National Health Service Litigation Authority legal ...
One step up.
IT software and services company, Rebus, has upgraded its WorldView solution with the launch of vers...
Child seats a legal saver.
Jones v Jones Court of Appeal 18 December 2000 The claimant, aged three, was a passenger in ...
Motor not damned.
I read with interest the article "Road ends for Lloyd's motor" (Post Magazine 25 January, p2) quotin...
Fuller v Strum.
Chancery Division 20 December 2000 The claimant, the son of close friends of the deceased, sought ...
Insurers to create under class.
Insurers will end up withdrawing cover for certain risks, creating an insurance underclass, accordin...
St Paul's speciality.
Chris Longo has joined St Paul Companies as New York-based president of its speciality excess and um...
Lloyd's syndicate 33.
Two "major European reinsurers" are to provide 7%, or £25m ($37.5m), of the overall capital for the ...
Let the battle commence.
It looks as though 2001 could prove to be the year of the internet war. As we report on p1, last mon...
Chatset predicts Lloyd's losses.
Market analyst Chatset has joined rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P) in predicting ...
Winterthur Re downgraded.
Rating company Standard & Poor's has downgraded its counterparty credit and insurer financial streng...
Confidence lifts Lloyd's capacity.
Capacity at Lloyd's has risen by £1bn ($1.48bn) for this year to £11.06bn, the biggest annual increa...
Roberts takes over at Thatcham
Peter Roberts has been appointed the new chief executive of Thatcham, the automotive research body. H...
Hiscox-Chubb talks collapse
Hiscox has rejected the approach by US insurance giant and shareholder Chubb to acquire the company, ...