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Acquisition : Giles acquires Rossborough
Giles Insurance Brokers has announced the acquisition of RA Rossborough Limited and its general insurance broking companies.
Rossborough is the largest broker in the Channel...
Report : 2010 had the Second Highest Number of Atlantic Hurricanes on Record
The 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season, which officially ended on November 30, had the second highest number of hurricanes since records began in 1851, according...
Zurich closes the acquisition of Compagnie Libanaise D’Assurances in Lebanon
Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) announced today that its subsidiary Zurich Insurance Company Ltd has completed the acquisition of 99.99% of Compagnie Libanaise D’Assurances...
Aegis / Synovate : Expands presence in Russia
Aegis Group plc (“Aegis”), the media and market research group, today announces that Synovate, its market research business, is expanding its presence in Russia...
EuroTempest: Creating Calm in a Chaotic Climate
As freezing temperatures hit Europe, EuroTempest reviews the extreme cold and snow fall experienced across much of the continent last winter, looks into the...
Prudential has new Asia target
Insurance giant Prudential has underlined its potential in Asia by revealing a new target to double new business profits from the region by 2013.
The...
Short news : tiny blood vessels show pollution and heart disease link
By photographing tiny blood vessels in a person's eyes, researchers have found a way to link exposure to air pollution with a higher risk...
AXA signs acquisition agreement
French insurance company AXA, Australian wealth manager AMP Ltd. and AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd. or AXA APH, signed an agreement that will allow...
Japan culls 23,000 chickens to contain bird flu
Japan began slaughtering about 23,000 chickens Tuesday at a poultry farm in western Shimane prefecture where an outbreak of bird flu was discovered, the...
Canadian health-care costs should rise
If Canadians truly want a public health care system that's sustainable, they're going to have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for...
Medicare Advantage provision going smoothly so far
One of the most significant savings envisioned in the new health-care law - limiting payments to the private health plans that cover 11 million...
Hannover Re insures energy savings guarantees in the United States
In cooperation with the US company Energi, Hannover Re has developed an insurance product for businesses, municipalities and homeowners. The financing of energy efficiency...
Aon Benfield : ReMetrica capital modeling tool for the proposed Solvency II regulations
Aon Benfield, reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, today launches its new Solvency II-focused version 5 of ReMetrica, its dynamic financial analysis tool for capital...
UK National Insurance hides tax rise
National Insurance should be abolished when the government's proposed universal state pension is introduced, a leading think-tank has claimed.
The NI system has been abused...
Health insurance : rise in prices for Ireland
Families are facing the prospect of shelling out an additional €200 a year for private health insurance.
Yesterday, Quinn Healthcare said it would impose average...
Rising fear of terror increases demand for terrorism insurance
Rising fear of terror attacks in Germany is apparently spurring sales of insurance policies covering terror damages. Extremus, the country's only insurer offering such policies,...
Appointment : Hideyuki Yoshida is new Head of Aon Benfield Analytics Japan
Aon Benfield, reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, has appointed Hideyuki Yoshida as head of Aon Benfield Analytics in Japan.
He will be responsible for managing...
Generali : eyes real estate boost in U.S. and China
Assicurazioni Generali, Europe's third-largest insurer, plans to expand its real estate holdings to about 10 percent of its 330 billion euro ($441 billion) investment...
Good to know : don’t leave without proper ski insurance
A great number of skiers and snowboarders will head to the slopes this winter without adequate insurance, according to a new survey, potentially leaving...
Weather warning : early snow this weekend
Parts of south-west England are expecting their own snow showers after much of the eastern half of the country was blanketed by up to...
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