June 22, 2015
RSA Insurance Group plc’s former Irish head was awarded 1.25 million euros ($1.4 million), as a tribunal said the company destroyed his reputation amid a scandal that triggered the biggest sell-off in its shares for a decade. Philip Smith won …
March 27, 2015
Philip Smith’s son thought the worst when friends texted him on an evening in early November 2013, saying “sorry to hear about your father.” “He assumed I was dead,” Smith, 47, told an employment tribunal in Dublin this month that …
March 16, 2015
Philip Smith, the former head of RSA’s Irish unit, asked for support from the division’s chairman as directors sketched out the shape of a probe into accounting matters, an employment hearing heard. Smith asked the Irish unit chairman, Leo Blennerhassett, …
March 13, 2015
Executives at RSA Insurance Group plc’s Irish unit wept as they recalled how their former boss, Philip Smith, pressured them, an employment hearing heard. “Men were weeping into their hands, crying,” Derek Walsh, RSA’s group counsel, said at an Employment …
March 11, 2015
The former head of RSA Insurance Group plc’s Irish unit said an internal company report effectively accused him of being a bully, laying the ground for his departure. In a hearing at the Employment Appeals Tribunal in Tuesday on Dublin, …
March 9, 2015
RSA Insurance Group plc viewed some reserves set aside to cover potential claims in its Irish unit as “treasure” to be used to offset underperformance elsewhere in the business, a former executive who said he was forced out of the …