Regulation
Brokers warned over Zurich's Folgate plan
The British Insurance Brokers' Association this week warned the intermediaries Zurich is using to wi...
Zurich transfers 370 staff
Zurich is to transfer 370 UK jobs to an outsourcing company as part of a drive to improve efficiency...
Royal and Sun Alliance launches product
Royal and Sun Alliance has launched a packaged offices product aimed at accountants, solicitors and ...
Airmic will be exempt - that is, once the law's been changed
Speaking of issues that seem to go round and round, the news that risk managers are to be excluded f...
British Damage Management Association launches new logo
The British Damage Management Association has launched a new logo in an effort to raise its profile ...
Airmic steps up pressure on Treasury
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers is stepping up the pressure on the Treasury to grant ...
Low number of secondary intermediaries
Last week, on its website, www.postmagazine.co.uk, Post Magazine posed the question: are you surpris...
Space age technology for insurers
Technology company QinetiQ has teamed up with financial modelling company Sciemus to develop an insurance risk analysis tool that aims to simplify risk assessment for the space industry.
Fitch calls for ECR to be made public
International rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has called for the Financial Services Authority to make Enhanced Capital Requirements public at the earliest possible opportunity.
Zurich reveals outsourcing deal
Zurich today announced that it has signed a global information technology applications outsourcing agreement with Computer Sciences Corporation.
Fitch downgrades ERC
Fitch Ratings has downgraded its insurer financial strength rating on Employers Reinsurance (ERC) to 'AA-' from 'AA' and its long-term and related senior debt ratings on ERC's parent company, GE Global Insurance (GE Global) to 'A-' from 'A'. The rating…
XL Re Europe appoints Romagné
XL Re Europe has announced the appointment of Bertrand Romagné as senior vice president and head of the Property Treaty Department.
Survey claims US P/C market softening
The commercial property/casualty insurance market In the US showed signs of continued softening in the second quarter of 2004, with one-third of the small accounts and more than half the medium and large accounts experiencing significant premium…
BMA lays out takaful proposals
The Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA) has published a consultation paper that sets out proposed rules to regulate the takaful (Islamic insurance) and retakaful industry.
Darwin Rhodes cements City base
Insurance recruitment agency Darwin Rhodes has opened a new headquarters in the City. The premises i...
Murphy joins DLA
DLA has announced an expansion of its contentious reinsurance/insurance team with the appointment of new partner David Murphy from Eversheds.
Airmic warns of FSA application uncertainty
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers has warned that, until the Treasury grants its member...
Appointment at XL Re
XL Re, a subsidiary of XL Capital, has made Jeremy Hindle ceded reinsurance and underwriting risk ma...
Brokers in new FSA warning
Brokers are being warned they must end their relationship with secondary intermediaries that have no...
Founders of Towergate Underwriting give up shares
Founders of Towergate Underwriting Group, Peter Cullum, Paul Dyer and Tony Proverbs, have given up a...
Sir Anthony Holland appointed complaints commissioner
Sir Anthony Holland, chairman of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission and a former principal ombu...
Appointment at Clinicare
Laurent Pochat-Cottilloux, Clinicare's actuarial and corporate strategy manager, has been appointed ...
ABI calms new EL premium hike fears
The Association of British Insurers has played down fears that the Government's decision this week t...
FSA has not gone soft
And so 13 July - known in the market as GI Day minus six months - has gone. The Financial Services A...