Andy Briggs to head combined Aviva insurance businesses

Life, general and health insurance arms to merge

Carmen Reichman
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Aviva is to combine its life, general and health insurance businesses under the leadership of former life insurance head Andy Briggs.

Briggs (pictured) will take the position of CEO UK insurance following the changes, while former global general insurance chairman Maurice Tulloch will become CEO of international insurance. Briggs held high-ranking positions at Scottish Widows, Lloyds Banking Group and Prudential before becoming group chief executive at Friends Life, which was taken over by Aviva in April 2015. He also took on the role of chairman of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) in October. As a result of the changes Aviva Europe chief executive David McMillan will leave the insurer after 14 years at the...

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