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Natural selection
High premium rates attributed to a shortage of capacity have provided a welcome boost for the market, but are insurers being unduly selective in underwriting just to maintain high profits? Michael Faulkner reports
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Product news
M&S mulls pet moveMarks & Spencer is considering a move into the expanding pet insurance market.The financial services arm of the food retailer is looking to capitalise on its band of pet …
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Stop press...Conference plan
Former RUC chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan will be the keynote speaker at the Insurance Institute of Ireland's annual conference.The conference will run from 19-20 Sept ...
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Stop press...Law promotions
Dublin law firm O'Rourke Reid has made Caroline Murphy a partner and promoted Graham Duggan to senior associate.Pru eggs on motorEgg, the e-commerce company set up ...
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Reinsurance revisited
Reinsurers met up in Monte Carlo last week for a round of discussion, negotiation and relaxation.
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Stockwatch
The week's winnersBradstock up 33%Culver up 12.5%The week's losersAviva down 16.7%R&SA down 15.1%Who on earth would want Bob Mendelsohn's job? Despite the obvious att …
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Ace sees floods wash away $90m (£56m)
Ace expects the recent flooding across central Europe to strip about $90m (£56m) out of its third quarter operating income.The figure includes flood losses in France and takes into account recent increases ...
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Celltech ring-fences £6m for future liability claims
Biotech conglomerate Celltech has been hit by rising premiums on its product liability and has put aside £3m a year to cover any future claims.The company hopes to pay less for future cover by set ...
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Music honour for brokers
Two insurance brokers are to be inducted on to the Music Managers Forum roll of honour at the forum's annual dinner this week.Willie Robertson and Bob Taylor, of Robertson Taylor Insurance Brok ...
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Zurich turns to CSC to reduce costs
Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) is turning to CSC's litigation software to cut its legal costs. Zurich spends £1.4bn on claims costs each year, and a significant proportion of that is spent on lawyers. The group is using CSC's business processor to outsource bil ...
