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FSCS levies to drop in 2005/6
General insurers' prospective levy from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme will drop by £40m...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical
Ken Burdett has been appointed to the board of Ecclesiastical Insurance. For the past seven years he...
Norwich Union launches professional risks guides
Norwich Union has launched a guide to the professional risks sector. The series of mini-guides aims...
Willis report suggests less acute market softening
The softening in liability rates has not been as acute as that experienced in other lines, a recent ...
More ado about nothing
Concerning a letter in last month's issue of Professional Broking (PB, January 2005) that likened br...
Willis acquires CR King
Willis has acquired CR King and Partners, a Northampton-based insurance broker with £1.3m in revenue...
Appointment at MMA Insurance
MMA Insurance's business development team has promoted Paul Cavanagh to the newly created role of re...
Appointment at The Jelf Group
The Jelf Group has announced the appointment of David Walker to its board as a non-executive directo...
Appointment at Alliance
Alliance has appointed risk services manager Andrew Richardson to spearhead a new health and safety ...
Appointment at Aegis Managing Agency
Aegis Managing Agency has appointed Stuart Davies as managing director. Davies has worked in insuran...
Feeling the pinch
It is forecast that, in 2005, compliance will remain top of the agenda as brokers adapt to the new Financial Services Authority regulatory regime and the resulting squeeze in profits. Nicolle Farthing reports on some of the other predictions for the year…
Marsh to seek clawback from underwriters for axed commissions
Marsh UK expects to publish details of its new business model 'within weeks', following the delayed ...
Transactor awarded software contract
Transactor Global Solutions has been awarded the contract to supply its Transactor software to Lexha...
Appointment at Lloyd's
Lord Levene is to serve a second term as chairman of Lloyd's. He became chairman in November 2002 an...
Appointment at BiB Underwriters
BiB Underwriters has promoted Anthony Murray and Andrew Spencer to new roles. Murray, previously tea...
The hottest insurance gossip
What have a gossip columnist and the managing director of an insurance broker got in common? You may...
Norwich Union (NU) Risk Services ..
Norwich Union (NU) Risk Services is hosting seminars for brokers on the implications of the new Work...
Oxygen looks to breathe life into regional market
London Market insurance intermediary company, Oxygen, said it hoped to offer a "new avenue" for prov...
The final countdown to FSA regulatory reform
The month's Power Hour, in association with Groupama Insurances, focuses on the various areas of the new regulatory regime that the panellists think the Financial Services Authority will look to change from 14 January in its first year as statutory…