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Heritage announces profit
Heritage Underwriting Agency, the specialist London based Lloyd's insurer, has announced a profit fo...
Ecclesiastical continues strong profitable returns
Niche insurer Ecclesiastical has reported a pre-tax profit of £77.1m for the year ending 31 December...
Appointment at Castle Cover
Castle Cover has announced the appointment of Helen Ricketts as head of motor. ...
ACE streamlines imarket PI offering
ACE has launched a more streamlined professional indemnity product on imarket. The move, it is claim...
Appointment at Whittington Group
Whittington Group has made Ross Bundey group general counsel. ...
Novae nets profit in "defining year"
The Novae Group announced a profit of £32.8m for 2006, following a £17.9m loss in 2005. The combined...
Appointment at Aon
Aon has appointed Steve Redgwell as head of broking for its commercial insurance division. Redgwell ...
Appointment at Close Premium Finance
Paul Barrow has re-joined Close Premium Finance as new business manager. In addition, Fiona Redmond ...
Allianz Cornhill Engineering goes live with imarket
Imarket saw the first engineering product go live at the end of March. Computer, which comes under e...
imarket scoops insurer trio MMA, Fortis and Brit
Insurers Brit, Fortis and MMA are set to join imarket, with MMA and Brit claiming to make products a...
Highway profit slip
Essex-based insurer Highway's profits slipped to £19.6m last year, compared to £27.3m in 2005 at the...
Torrance hints at personal broker buys
Following the acquisitions of brokers Home and Legacy and Premierline last year, Andrew Torrance, ch...
Appointment at Groupama Insurances
Groupama Insurances has appointed Shelley Wright to the role of proposition development manager. ...
£6m JLT bid is music to Pavilion's ears
JLT Corporate Risks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson, is set to acquire Coventry...
Appointment at RAC
Mary Livingstone has joined the corporate partnerships team at RAC as a financial services partnersh...
Appointment at HSBC Insurance Brokers
Steve Pratt has joined HSBC Insurance Brokers' intermediary marketing division from Heath Lambert. A...
Appointment at QBE
John Neal has been appointed to the position of chief operating officer at QBE. ...
Groupama navigates "tough trading" cycle
The "tougher times" managing director of Groupama Franaois-Xavier Boisseau predicted last year have ...
Appointment at Crawford and Company
Charlotte Von Krogh has been made operations manager (Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa) fo...
Appointment at IGI Group
IGI Group has made Scott Hallett business development manager. ...
Hardy profits double
Lloyd's insurer Hardy's profit before tax more than doubled from 2005 to £16.8m last year, underpinn...
Hiscox taps overseas homeowners
Specialist insurer Hiscox has started insuring homes overseas, to tap into more than one million pro...
Appointment at Arista
Arista has appointed Hasmita Zaveri as an underwriter. ...
Norwich Union and Allianz buy 'to protect' Jelf's independence
The investment arms of insurers Norwich Union and Allianz Cornhill have bought 5.1% and 5% stakes re...