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Appointment at Groupama-Gan.
The Gan and Lombard insurance groups - UK subsidiaries of French giant Groupama-Gan - has formed a c...
A world of restructuring.
Software supplier Policy Management Systems Corporation has restructured its worldwide operations. ...
Appointment at SOVAG UK.
Pierre Bou Mansour has been appointed the representative and underwriter of SOVAG UK. He joins from ...
Captives move into island 'cells'.
Cayman Islands-based United Insurance is to set up in the Channel Isles to take advantage of the "pr...
It's still all-Wyatt on the night.
I would like to point out a small error in the excellent article 'The Bright Stuff' (PM 12 August, p...
Hot stuff for racy models.
Insurance product marketing company Holman is set to launch a non-standard motor scheme for brokers ...
Argyll's Sharpe buy.
Sussex broker Argyll Insurance Group has acquired Brighton-based insurance consultants Sharpe and Pa...
Bug's legal effects.
Don Cruickshank, chairman of Action 2000, has warned businesses that they could face "potentially di...
Dumping duplication.
Managing different IT projects at the same time is a problem that Lloyd's has tried to address. Sarah Berry reports.
Arson guidebook.
The Fire Protection Association has compiled The Prevention and Control of Arson. It promotes a mult...
Speedy Y2K test.
Risk management firm BSC Consulting has developed Y2K compliance software which it claims is 100 tim...
Broker goes halves.
Global shipping broker Clarksons has broadened its range of services with the acquisition of a 50% i...
Online business - time to use it or lose it.
It is time for the talking to stop and the action to start. After years of discussion about the oppo...
Website relaunch.
Scottish Widows has updated its website, 15 months after it was launched. The site's new features...
Leaves too many questions.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
A lesson in co-operation.
Your article 'Police Probe Motor Scam' (PM 12 August, p1) illustrates how a spirit of co-operation c...
Monitoring system.
Lloyd's, in connection with IT company Searchspace, has developed a new automated monitoring system ...
In need of discipline.
The UK property & casualty industry is in need of a shake-up according to a new report. Insurers working in the sector agree, but maintain they are already doing their bit to help. David Fanning reports.
CGU's seeks French connection.
CGU's desire to penetrate the French life and pensions market looks to be back on track after the la...
Not up for grabs.
Loss adjuster Woodgate & Clark has denied it is seeking to cash-in on recent successes. CGU's decisi...
Lutine Bi-Centenary Trophy.
Two hundred years after the sinking of the HMS Lutine, whose bell now hangs at Lloyd's, participants...
Neither a waste of time nor money.
I was surprised to read that lawyers at Hill Dickinson believe the Woolf reforms are leading to esca...
A to B in UK via AA.
AA cardholders can access free route information for anywhere in the UK on the AA's website at www.t...
Appointment at Aon Consulting.
Richard Cox has joined Aon Consulting as a senior consultant at its Bristol office. Previously he wa...