All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 27 2000 // German insurance giant Allianz AG announced that premium income for the first 9 months of the year reached a record €50.9 billion ($42.675 billion) a 15.5 percent rise over 1999. Property and casualty operations...
Nov 16 2000 // British police will soon be able to use a new program to run roadside checks on drivers to see if they carry insurance coverage. A new computer database, sponsored by U.K. insurers and established by the government, will...
Nov 10 2000 // Insurance companies and risk experts may not agree on the exact amount of the insured losses caused by the recent and ongoing floods and storms in Britain, but they all agree that the damages will be substantial. (See...
Nov 10 2000 // Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) estimates that it could face claims of £100 million ($145 million) or more from the current storms sweeping the U.K. Lloyd’s insurer Wellington said the events over the last three...
Nov 8 2000 // St. Paul International Insurance, a unit of the St. Paul Cos., Inc., which is one of the primary insurance carriers for the U.K. ‘s privatized railroad companies, is seeking a change in policy rules to permit...
Nov 6 2000 // Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its single A+ insurer financial strength rating on U.K.-based Lloyd’s Insurance Market, reflecting a judgement made by the U.K. High Court in favor of Lloyd’s. The...
Oct 31 2000 // According to a BBC report, U.K. insurers’ preliminary estimates of the claims they may face from three days of high winds and rain, which have caused extensive damage in southern England, is put at around £200...
Oct 19 2000 // CGNU surprised analysts on Wednesday when it reported a 21 percent increase in its U.K. life sales totaling £5.5 billion ($8 billion) over the past 9 months, despite a general slowdown in long-term investments in the U.K....
Oct 17 2000 // Standard & Poor’s rating service announced that it had “lowered its long-term counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on U.K. insurer Cornhill Insurance PLC (Cornhill) to double...
Oct 16 2000 // The Department of Health’s Genetics and Insurance Committee (GAIC) has granted U.K. insurers permission to consider the results of genetic testing for Huntington’s Disease (also known as Huntington’s...
Oct 3 2000 // After months of speculation Scottish Life announced that it has agreed to be acquired by fellow U.K. mutual insurer Royal London for £1.1 billion ($1.62 billion). The announcement ends speculation that other companies,...
Sep 29 2000 // Lincoln National Corp. announced that it was transferring its U.K. sales force of approximately 1000 to the Inter-Alliance Group Plc, an independent financial advisory group, after the failure to conclude a sale of its...
Sep 27 2000 // French insurer AXA’s U.K. subsidiary Sun Life & Provincial announced plans to distribute up to £1.7 billion ($2.47 billion) in unclaimed funds to shareholders and policyholders. The amount has been accruing...
Sep 20 2000 // In what’s shaping up as a battle of big fish, bigger fish, the Times reported that three companies were interested in acquiring U.K. Mutual life and pension insurer Liverpool Victoria, at the same time that it is...
Sep 11 2000 // The St. Paul Companies have had considerable success with their professional liability policy for English and Welsh lawyers. Since receiving the designation “qualifying insurer” last January from the Law...
Sep 4 2000 // Drivers in the U.K. face automobile insurance premium increases of 25 percent or more within the next 12 months, warned Mintel, a marketing research firm. The average premium in 1999 was £226 ($336). It’s expected...
Aug 24 2000 // Drivers in the U.K. face automobile insurance premium increases of 25 percent or more within the next 12 months warns Mintel, a marketing research firm. The average premium in 1999 was £226 ($336); it’s expected to...
Aug 16 2000 // Drivers in the British isles will soon be offered another option for their automobile coverage following the announcement by Egg, the U.K.’s biggest online bank, that it will begin offering automobile policies...
Jul 26 2000 // Following on the heels of the United States, Britain legalized electronic signatures Tuesday, giving them the same status as hand-written signatures in an effort to boost the country’s e-commerce. A second law will...
Jun 26 2000 // According to reports which appeared in the Times of London, and France’s financial newspaper Les Echos, the world’s largest broker Marsh & McLennan (Marsh,Inc.) plans to expand its operations in the U.K....