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• ABI Motor Conference: Live

  17-10-2016 18:16
  
  Live updates from the ABI Motor Conference.
  
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• ABI Motor Conference

  17-10-2016 18:16
  
  Live updates from the ABI Motor Conference.
  
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• IIGL to support Gable brokers

  17-10-2016 16:02
  
  MGA to help brokers replace construction business following the news that Gable has gone into administration.
  
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• Energy market change on horizon: Willis

  17-10-2016 14:51
  Willis Towers Watson has predicted that rate declines in the
  energy market will decelerate as the impact of prior-year losses is
  felt.
  In its Energy Market Review Update for October, released today, the
  global broker said while the pressures of competition and abundant
  capacity persisted, pricing levels were becoming increasingly
  untenable as premium income had fallen by around 30 percent in the
  upstream sector in the last year.
  The issue has been compounded by the deterioration in upstream
  loss
  
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• MGA to help brokers replace Gable business

  17-10-2016 14:04
  
  The unrated Liechtenstein-based insurer has been put into administration
  
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• Brexit video: 'Insurers must consider what they would do in a worst-case scenario' says KPMG

  17-10-2016 13:55
  
  KPMG partners Paul Merrey and Siân Hill on the choices insurers are faced with following the EU referendum result
  
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• Deloitte appoints insurtech expert Walsh as insurance partner

  17-10-2016 13:36
  
  Deloitte has appointed Nigel Walsh, former head of insurance at Capgemini as a partner in its insurance practice.
  
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• Lucas Fettes turnover hits £16.2m

  17-10-2016 12:02
  
  Operating profits are £854,000, up from £552,000 in 2015 but profit before tax falls to £1.1m from £4.3m the previous year.
  
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• Markel International hires two in Scandinavia

  17-10-2016 11:47
  Markel International has appointed Daniel Lells as programme
  business manager in Malmo and Jakob Holmen as underwriting manager
  in its Stockholm office.
  Both join from RSA's Swedish insurer Trygg-Hansa, where
  Holmen was head of underwriting in the affinity and specialty
  division, and Lells was Nordic portfolio manager for specialty
  business.
  In his new role, Lells will focus on building and developing
  Markel's business in southern Sweden and extending its reach
  into Denmark.
  Meanwhile, Holmen wi
  
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• Lloyd's makes Revilla LatAm chief

  17-10-2016 11:47
  Lloyd's has appointed Daniel Revilla, former head of operations
  and strategy for global markets, as regional head for Latin
  America.
  Revilla will also become the Corporation's country manager
  for Mexico and will be based in Mexico City.
  Prior to joining Lloyd's, Revilla worked at Zurich for nine
  years in M&A and strategy roles, the most recent of which was
  head of strategy for the general insurance segment.
  He also worked in M&A and strategy at UBS's investment
  bank, and held...
  
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• Liberty hires reinsurance development chief

  17-10-2016 11:47
  Liberty Specialty Markets has recruited Miguel Martinez
  Álvarez as head of business development for its reinsurance
  business.
  He joined from Munich Re, where he previously served as senior
  strategy consultant in the company's Madrid office.
  Álvarez started his new role on 1 October in Cologne,
  reporting to Dieter Winkel, chief underwriting officer for
  reinsurance....
  
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• Legal & General and Prestige join forces on home market

  17-10-2016 11:38
  
  Legal and General has teamed up with Prestige Underwriting Services to tackle the ‘non-standard’ home market in the UK.
  
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• Century launches new underwriting division

  17-10-2016 11:38
  
  Century Underwriting has launched a liability underwriting division and made two senior appointments.
  
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• InsurTech Futures: Can brokers benefit from the Internet of Things?

  17-10-2016 11:02
  
  Smart home expert Kevin Meagher addresses how connected devices could impact brokers.
  
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• #Insagepeople: 17 to 23 October 2016

  17-10-2016 10:41
  
  Keep up to date with all the latest people moves.
  
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• This week: Let downs, whiplash and administration

  17-10-2016 10:37
  
  Sometimes in life people let you down. Maybe they are not as invested as you, maybe they don't have the same energy levels or maybe they were never going to do it in the first place.
  
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• Former Thistle MD joins JRW Group

  17-10-2016 09:53
  
  Paul Williams takes up the role of executive chairman at the niche insurance specialist.
  
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• Reliance on passporting rights ‘exaggerated’ says think thank

  17-10-2016 09:37
  
  Open Europe outlines that there is no real single market for insurers
  
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• West Midlands top hotspot for uninsured drivers

  17-10-2016 09:28
  
  But London has the highest number of uninsured vehicles overall
  
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• ProSport partners with Jelf Group for services to ‘ignored’ group

  17-10-2016 09:23
  
  New partnership targets area that has been underserved by the broader market
  
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• Former Thistle boss joins sports and leisure broker

  17-10-2016 09:00
  
  Company hoping to accelerate growth with new hire
  
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• Blog: Whiplash reforms must be based on evidence

  17-10-2016 08:05
  
  Now the small claims reforms have been put on hold, it is time for an evidence-based review.
  
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