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Motor book surge pushes up Fortis premium income
100,000 policyholders added despite rate rises
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Global markets help Hiscox profits boom
?Hiscox has posted record half-year results with its Lloyd’s-written global markets business making up the bulk of the booming profits.The Bermuda-based, London-listed insurer posted gross written premiums up more than 17% from £625.1m to £733m with pre-tax profits leaping more than 72% from £61.3m to £105.6m. The company’s combined ratio ...
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Currency rates hit QBE Europe
Australian insurer QBE announced in its annual report that tough currency rates had hampered its European and Lloyd’s operations. The report said gross written premium (GWP) for European operations was down 4% to $2.9bn (£1.17bn) compared to the previous year, and net earned premium fell 6% to $1.9bn.But the combined ...
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Hardy ups 2005 forecast Hardy Underwriting Group, the specialist Lloyd’s insurer reported that the expected profit for Syndicate 382, which it owns and manages, for the year ended 2005 to be in the range 11% to 16% (previously 7.5% to 12.5 %). In accordance with Lloyd’s requirements, the 2006 ...
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Dixons plans commercial comparison site
Hig street retailer's aggregator site to offer personal lines products by autumn
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Insurers to reassess product recall risk
The recent spate of multi-million pound product recalls from China will lead insurers to reassess how to manage the associated risks, according to industry figures. Aon associate director Mark Quinn said many customers would soon make it a contractual requirement for their suppliers to buy product recall protection, but cover ...
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SMEs face bankrutptcy over foot and mouth
Specialist underwriter Crowe Livestock has warned that the full extent of financial casualties among industries that support farming following the recent foot and mouth outbreak has yet to become clear. It said that while affected farmers and cattle owners would receive compensation from the government for animals that had been ...
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UK insurers face US mortgage fall-out
Legal actions launched in the US over bad loans may have to be paid for by London market insurers
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UK seeks EU aid to pay for summer floods
?The government has admitted that it has applied for relief aid to the European Commission, after the floods in June and July . The ABI said about 45,000 households and 14,500 businesses had made insurance claims following the UK’s worst flooding in more than a half-century. The cost of the ...
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Hastings underwriting error hits 3,000 policies
Almost 3,000 people have had their motor insurance revoked after Hastings Direct discovered an underwriting error.Customers began receiving calls two weeks ago warning that their insurance would be can-celled within seven days as a system programming error meant they were being under-charged on their premiums.Hastings spokesman Jeffrey Roberts said clients ...
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Relief as hurricane Dean calms
UK insurers are breathing a sigh of relief after the calming of Hurricane Dean which ripped through Jamaica and Mexico amassing about $1.5bn in insured losses.Hurricane Dean was a Category 4 when it swept through Jamaica last weekend and Mexico earlier this week, however, it stayed mainly offshore and in ...
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Bupa survey rates PMI as top priority for employees
Flexi hours and bonus schemes for employees take backseat to PMI
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JLT targets Japanese construction
New hire to develop opportunities with Japanese business community
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Ryanair calls for lower insurance premiums for good behaviour
Differentiate between low risk airlines
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NewsNU reports 40% increase in delayed baggage
Increased travel and airport bungles contribute to rise says insurer
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Online onlyCBG appoints Texas Group CEO to board
Paul Mannning takes up non-executive role to assist with expansion
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Select & Protect website traffic booms
Additional microsites to go live in coming months
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Online onlyFoot and mouth outbreak may cripple farm support industry
SME businesses could be hardest hit
