Net written premiums grew by 3%, on a constant currency basis, at the Irish arm of international insurance group, RSA in the first half of this year.

The British insurance firm Royal and Sun Alliance has said Irish jobs will not be at risk as a result of a major cost-cutting plan announced today.

Royal & Sun Alliance is to raise £850m (€1.3bn) from the sale of the UK life insurance operation it closed to new business two years ago, it emerged today.

A motor insurance company has been found guilty of age discrimination.