Claims
UK firms: profits healthy.
UK companies are effectively combating the economics slowdown by shedding jobs and scaling down inve...
Mortgage rate cuts.
Wesleyan Home Loans has reduced the interest on its variable rate mortgage from 8.59% to 8.10% (8.5%...
Commentary - Bang bang, you're deaf.
A report in the US showbusiness journal Variety Daily suggested that blockbuster movies featuring sh...
Core service offers commercial key.
Should commercial claims handling be kept indoors or entrusted to outside help? Steve Banner finds out.
Experian signs deal.
Experian will host databases of insurance claims information for the whole industry, following the s...
Personal injury claims to rocket.
The insurance industry has been told to expect millions of pounds worth of backlogged personal injur...
Of course millennium problems are forseeable.
I read Ian Drewer's attack on the Association of British Insurers' exclusions with a certain degree ...
A heart chorus of 'good riddance'.
The insurance industry does not appear to be shedding any tears over the prospect of stakeholder pen...
No point crying over spilt cream.
The Central London County Court recently held that a shopper could not be held liable to another sho...
Three into one will go.
NLA and DWM insurance groups have now been merged with subsidiary Clayton Bishop under the name Mill...
Friends boosts ethical range.
Friends Provident has added a number of new services to its ethical investment range - an area in wh...
GRE's Y2K check.
To make sure that its computer systems are in order for the millennium Guardian Royal Exchange is ge...
IFA's peace-of-mind policy.
IFA Portfolio has a new unemployment and disability mortgage protection policy. 'Mortgageguard' p...
Face to face with python
A broker which insures people tying the knot - rather than those being tied in a knot - had a slippery surprise last week
Greedy idiots deserve to be put out of business by Phase 2.
I do not understand why you feel it necessary to rush to support independent financial advisers thre...
Healthy move for Fogg.
Fogg Medical Administration opened its first office in Dubai earlier this week. The new office will ...
Opt out of all Y2K cover'.
The General Insurance Association of Malaysia has advised its members to take a firm stand against y...
Genetics decision.
The industry will know today what the government's attitude towards genetic testing and insurers' us...
Eagle Star sponsors arson detectors.
The fire service has gone to the dogs in the battle against arsonists. Eagle Star has sponsored arso...
Food for thought.
Lloyd's syndicate Beazley Furlonge has launched a protection plan for restaurant owners. In response...
Hiscox opens City cafe.
Hiscox, the London-based insurer, has opened a cafe in the City featuring the works of contemporary ...
Only £1.2m set aside for ISA ad campaign.
The government has earmarked only £1.2m for its campaign to educate the public on the benefits of th...
Fears over low charges.
Concern was voiced about the low charges that must be levied to comply with the government's CAT sta...
Moving against delay tactics.
All insurance policies contain a clause setting out the obligations of the insured when giving notic...