Latest Uk Headlines
All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
RMS Upgrades Website, Releases New U.K.
Oct 11 2001 // Risk Management Solutions of Newark, CA announced the introduction of its newly upgraded website containing complete information on its publications, updates on catastrophe events, including a full report on the WTC...
Hollywood and The Insurance Industry
Sep 17 2001 // Once upon a time in a country far, far away, a few visionaries (and yes, a few con artists) laid the foundations of the multi-billion dollar motion picture industry. It required taking considerable risks, and still does....
Hollywood and the Insurance Industry
Sep 10 2001 // Once upon a time in a country far, far away, a few visionaries (and, yes, a few con artists) laid the foundations of the multi-billion- dollar motion picture industry. It required taking considerable risks then, and it...
Outrage in U.K. Over Claims Direct Share Sale
Sep 3 2001 // By applying the old merchants’ rule, “buy it for a nickel, sell it for a dime,” a bit too opportunistically, Colin Poole and Anthony Sullman, the original founders of the U.K.’s Claims Direct, have...
AXA Appoints Dennis Holt as New U.K. CEO
Aug 17 2001 // AXA’s U.K. operations will finally have a new CEO when Dennis Holt, currently the head of retail banking for Lloyds TSB, takes over as Group Chief Executive on September 1st. Holt’s selection ends a search for...
U.K. Insurers Await Levy on Independent, as RSA Picks Up More Pieces
Jun 28 2001 // Britain’s Royal & Sun Alliance is in advanced talks with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the liquidators for Independent Insurance, to acquire more parts of Michael Bright’s failed company. RSA has already agreed...
Terrorism from Newly Empowered Pressure Groups Poses a Threat
Jun 18 2001 // Firebombs, booby-trapped letters and packages, kidnappings, assaults and extortion—as these violent acts continue to proliferate, insurers have stepped up to offer financial protection. Handling threats from terrorist...
Terrorism from Newly Empowered Pressure Groups Poses a Threat
Jun 11 2001 // Firebombs, booby-trapped letters and packages, kidnappings, assaults and extortion—as these violent acts continue to proliferate, insurers have stepped up to offer financial protection. Handling threats from terrorist...
U.K. Study Highlights Home Hazards
Jun 7 2001 // A survey by the U.K. ‘s Department of Trade and Industry highlights the number of serious, and often fatal, accidents which occur in British homes each year, many of them from trivial and unsuspected causes, which...
U.K. Commercial Premiums Will Continue to Rise
Jun 7 2001 // Delegates at the annual meeting of the U.K.’s Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Birmingham were told by insurance industry representatives that commercial insurance rates would continue to rise, with...
The Changing Face of the London Insurance Market: Lloyd’s Admits ‘Foreign’ Brokers-Ins-sure Takes Ov
Jun 4 2001 // The London insurance market achieved two significant milestones recently with the admission to Lloyd’s membership of three non-U.K.-based brokers, and the launch of Ins-sure Services, Ltd., which will assume the...
Further Increases Seen in U.K. Auto Rates
May 25 2001 // According to a survey conducted by Datamonitor, a U.K-based consulting firm, automobile premiums in the U.K. and Ireland, which have already risen by around 20 percent in the last year, are set to increase further. The...
Lloyd’s Admits ‘Foreign’ Brokers, Ins-sure Services Launched
May 21 2001 // The London insurance market achieved two significant milestones recently with the admission to Lloyd’s membership of three non-U.K.-based brokers, and the launch of Ins-sure Services Ltd., which will assume the...
U.K. Approves Benfield Greig, E.W. Blanch Deal
May 17 2001 // The U.K.’s Personal Investment Authority has approved the acquisition by London’s Benfield Greig Group of Dallas-based reinsurance broker E.W. Blanch. The action clears the way for the merger of the two leading...
Prudential (U.K.), Other Europeans Seeking U.S. Acquisitions
May 16 2001 // Enriched by the $600 million it received as a break up fee from AIG-American General, Britain’s Prudential plc is still looking for opportunities to expand in the U.S. market, but it’s not alone. According to...
U.K. Government, Insurers To Assume Asbestos Liability
May 11 2001 // The British Government and the country’s insurance industry have agreed to set up a fund to pay the asbestos related claims of Scottish shipyard workers, whose claims payments were threatened when Chester Street...
U.K. Genetic Test Ban Controversy Continues
May 3 2001 // The British government’s Human Genetics Commission called for a three-year ban on the use by insurers of genetic test results in screening applicants for insurance. The proposed period is a year longer than a...
Lloyd’s Admits Non-U.K. Based Brokers For the First Time
Apr 30 2001 // Of the six new brokers admitted to Lloyd’s select fraternity five are based outside of the U.K., marking the first time that the venerable institution has given foreign brokers direct access to the Lloyd’s...
Anxiety Over Foot-and-Mouth Creates Upswing in Coverage Inquiries
Apr 23 2001 // Parts of Europe continue to be ravaged by two devastating livestock diseases: foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), or hoof-and-mouth; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow” disease. In the...
Anxiety Over Foot-and-Mouth Creates Upswing in Coverage Inquiries
Apr 20 2001 // Parts of Europe continue to be ravaged by two devastating livestock diseases: foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), or hoof-and-mouth; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow” disease. In the...
