Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC), a retail property & casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has purchased SafeHarbor Risk Management to boost its operations in the region. Acquisition of The ...
Premier Insurance Management Services (PIMS) has enhanced its commercial property insurance program with Zurich Insurance Group in North America. The program, which is underwritten by individual member firms of Zurich in North America, ...
Tags: Insurance, healthcare
UK-based insurance brokerage firm Lark (Group) has acquired Hinchely Wood-based HMT Insurance Brokers from its founder and proprietor, Howard Thompson, for an undisclosed sum. The acquired company delivers insurance advice to businesses ...
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Spanghero, the French meat processor that was linked to the horsemeat contamination scandal in Europe earlier this year, has re-opened with a new name - La Lauragaise. The company has been renamed after the region where it is located - in ...
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Wall Street played its own version of war games on Thursday, testing its defences against simulated cyber-attacks bent on taking down US stock exchanges. A total of 500 people took part in the exercise, called Quantum Dawn 2, in offices ...
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SurplusGLOBAL, Inc. participated in Semicon West 2013. SurplusGLOBAL CEO, Bruce Kim forecasted the increase in demand in the Asia Secondary Equipment Market. Bruce Kim, CEO of SurplusGLOBAL, has participated in Semicon West for the past ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Semiconductor Equipment, Electrical, Electronics
Aviva, a UK-based insurance group, is planning to reduce its offices from 30 to 17 over the next two years and cut about 80 jobs. The company made the decision, on the basis of feedback from its brokers, to expand its Broker Onsite ...
European over-the-counter natural gas market volumes in June jumped 20.6% from the previous year, boosted by strong growth on the German GASPOOL, French PEG Nord and Austrian VTP hubs, according to data published by the London Energy ...
Most historians herald industrial revolution of 18th, 19th and 20th centuries as a significant turn in the lifestyle and economic trends throughout the world. In this regard, transition in the energy source from coal to steam and then to ...
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The Asian LPG paper market flipped to a slight contango for the first time since August last year Wednesday, on active selling of August Saudi Aramco propane Contract Price swaps, market sources said Thursday. If the structure steepens ...
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Sydney-based underwriter QBE Australia is to divest its National Credit Insurance Brokers (NCIB) business and professional indemnity authorized representative Invivo by the end of 2013. Following completion of listing process, the ...
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U.S. consumers should be able to reclaim control of their personal data from data brokers, websites and other companies, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. Commissioner Julie Brill, a long-time privacy advocate, ...
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Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe Limited (LMIE), part of the global specialty unit of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, is forming a new consortium named Liberty Mutual Aviation Consortium to underwrite aviation insurance. The new ...
Global insurance broking and risk management firm Marsh has completed the acquisition of Alexander Forbes' stake in Nigerian insurance broker Femi Johnson & Company (FJC). Marsh intends to merge the newly-acquired business with its ...
Social media can make financial institutions seem less dull and better engage customers, according to officials on a panel at the AB+F Retail Financial Services Forum. Engaging customers through social media is a “game ...
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