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Scheme offers facilities.
Peter Lusted has launched Economic Scheme Underwriting, to provide scheme underwriting facilities an...
The incredible shrinking market.
The departure of Cloverleaf is the latest loss to the non-standard motor field, but those that remain foresee brighter times ahead. Andrew Newman reports.
ACE acts on health and safety regulations.
ACE Engineering Insurance has devised a risk management package to help clients comply with two new ...
Appointment at Thompson Heath & Bond.
Edward Close-Smith has been appointed managing director of the North American division of Thompson H...
Not concerned by MMC ruling.
The recent ruling by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission that discounted holidays must be made ava...
Pastures new.
The mood may be downbeat on the farm, but there are signs that rates in the farm and agriculture markets are starting to increase. David Fanning talks to the main insurers.
Appointment at AXA Insurance.
AXA Insurance has appointed Kirsty Chandler as its new corporate account manager. Ms Chandler spent ...
Appointment at Crowe.
Crowe Insurance Group Syndicate 963 has appointed Hamilton Harper as claims controller and Nikolai K...
Chartwell's Charity Plus policy a 'must for all UK charities'.
David Marshall & Others Syndicate 839, managed by Chartwell Managing Agents, has devised a new profe...
Towergate in L&E deal.
London & Edinburgh, recently acquired by Norwich Union, has been appointed underwriter for Towergate...
RSA loses clients over Y2K.
Royal & SunAlliance has been forced to pull out of the professional indemnity market for chartered a...
Broker splits in two.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has announced that it is to split into two major operations. JLT Risk ...
Eastgate seeks £100m turnover increase after Hambro acquisition.
The Eastgate Group is set to double in size following its acquisition of Hambro Assistance from Lind...
City law firms merge.
National insurance law firm, Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave, and City-based practice Beachcroft Stanley...
Lombard tees off once more with Golf Secure.
Lombard General Insurance has relaunched Golf Secure, its product targeted at privately owned golf c...
Called to account.
Insurers providing professional indemnity for accountants are having to deal with the tough stance taken by the various chartered institutes on year 2000. Shona Cronin looks at what this means for the market.
Brockbank remedy for patent worries.
Lloyd's-based Brockbank Syndicate Management has launched a new intellectual property patent infring...
WPA goes Freelance.
WPA has put together a health insurance policy for the self-employed. The scheme, called Freelanc...
Irish merger deal.
Insurance Group Irish Life is to merge with former building society, Irish Permanent. The I£2.8bn (£...
Going global.
A small band of brokers have realised they must go global if they are to prevent the likes of Aon snapping up their corporate clients. Their solution has been to form networks with like-minded foreign brokers says Simon Threadgold.
Ansvar puts together policy for free church movement.
Ansvar has put together a policy for the free church movement, where churches who do not own their o...
Appointment at Lawclub Legal Protection.
Legal expenses insurance provider Lawclub Legal Protection, a division of Cornhill Insurance, has ch...
European issue.
Whilst discussions currently concentrate on the suitability of the IIB to administer the IBRA, we sh...
MP for president.
John Greenway, MP for Ryedale in Yorkshire, has been made the first president of the Institute of In...