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Feeling the heat at Rims.
This year's Rims conference saw the largest ever international delegation, but dissatisfaction from risk managers. Janina Clark reports.
General Re record despite soft market.
Operating income at US reinsurance giant General Re rose by nearly 10% to a record $250m in the firs...
Ship losses falling, says ILU.
Latest statistics from the Institute of London Underwriters (ILU) show that the fall in merchant shi...
Swiss Re expands in Latin America.
Swiss Re is increasing its Latin American premium income by more than a third with the acquisition o...
Cash offer from Exel/Mid Ocean.
Shareholders in Bermudian (re)insurers Exel and Mid Ocean will have the option of receiving cash ins...
Policy wording becomes a drag.
When damages to insured properties accumulate unnoticed, the courts must sometimes decide where liability ultimately lies.
Bricks and mortar.
Are equity release schemes the answer to the problems of funding care for an ageing population? Keith Sankey takes a look at what is on offer.
Lloyd's faces further profit decline.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor has warned that 1998 looks set to be a lean year for the Lloyd's market,...
The hippy shippy shake.
Today's home incomes plans - or HIPs - have come a long way since the poor schemes of the past which put off many elderly people. With the Safe Home Income Plans (SHIP) code of practice now in force, Keith Sankey says HIP-hip-hooray for HIPs.
Woeful show from BIIBA.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Soft drinks scare losing fizz.
Any claims resulting from the recent soft drinks cancer scare are likely to be made against Terra Ni...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiastical Insurance has appointed Adam Gittins BSc CII AMIFS as strategic planning manager. He ...
GRIP offers extra AIDS protection.
Controversial underwriting agency GRIP has produced what it claimed to be the world's first income p...
Insurers in push for safer cars.
The insurance industry has been urged to "yield its considerable influence" to place additional pres...
Technology could signal the end for motor brokers.
Advances in new technology could see motor insurance broking become a thing of the past, according t...
Info centre thinks big.
Information services leader EDS is adding Forte skills to its large systems delivery capabilities, a...
ACIS offers peace of mind abroad.
Age Concern Insurance Services (ACIS) has introduced a European extension to its motor breakdown pol...
Appointment at Morgan Bruce.
Tim Jones has been made a partner at Morgan Bruce. A member of the insurance department, he joined t...
Extra help with asset protection.
A publication aimed at insurers and brokers that provides specifiers of security products with a gui...
Nationwide enters direct motor insurance.
Nationwide Building Society has entered the direct motor insurance market, and confidently claimed "...
Hiscox to insure round-the-world attempt.
Hiscox is to insure the support facilities for the Cable and Wireless Adventurer on its attempt to s...
COLOSSUS helps ITT.
ITT London & Edinburgh has signed a licensing agreement with CSC's system for evaluating personal in...
Ginger Spice' leaves group.
Insurers are bracing themselves for a potential multi-million pound pay-out after the disclosure tha...
Leicester fraud gang is jailed.
A gang behind a string of insurance frauds in the Leicester area was jailed this week as a judge rev...