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Not so traditional now.
Civil litigation as we knew it changed radically on 26 April. Marcus Alcock gauges the reactions to Woolf of those solicitors who are dealing with the changes on a day-to-day basis, and also looks at the effects the reforms have had on insurers.
HSBC cuts charges.
HSBC Bank has cut the charges on new personal pension plans to give customers higher transfer value ...
Commercial lines service suffering
Commercial lines business is suffering most from the failure by insurers to maintain adequate service...
Nat West to axe 1000 following bancassurance failure
Nat West, which recently failed in its attempt to takeover insurer Legal & General, and which yesterd...
Underwriter secures top rating
New London market insurer the Underwriter Insurance Company has received an A- (excellent) rating by ...
Titannic move for Hyperion
Specialist brokers Howden Spear Gulland has restructured to form Hyperion Insurance group. It has ...
Beckett's Eastward push
Go ahead insurance intermediary the Beckett group has completed its fourth acquisition in 18 months b...
Bodily injury claims rocketing says industry
Bodily injury claims in the UK have been rising at over 12% a year during the past decade, more than ...
Industry called to sign up to 'Rehabilitation First'
Insurers and claimant's lawyers are being urged to sign up a new voluntary Code of Best Practice - pu...
Cox opens new call centre.
Bradford City football club's defender Stuart McCall gave Cox employee Natasha Puttick a hand as the...
Teamwork is the key to beating the clock.
Bob Barnett, managing director of Ravenstone UK, addressed the issue of working within the time limi...
Appointment at RE Brown Underwriting.
David Hall has left AIG after 14 years to become Manchester branch manager for RE Brown Underwriting...
Internet tee off.
Direct Insurance Group has placed its golf insurance policy on the Internet. Hamilton & Wellard u...
Access Computers demonstrates.
Access Computers' managing director Brian Tolver (front) demonstrates what his firm's auto repair co...
Woolf analysis.
A seminar held by solicitors Elliotts will look at the impact of the Woolf Reforms in its first six ...
Appointment at Key Choice.
Nick Bate has been made managing director of Key Choice, the marketing group of Computer Sciences Co...
Direct Line enters Japan.
UK motor insurer Direct Line is gearing up to drive into the largest car insurance market in the wor...
Crash test dummy' fraud is costing insurers £40m a year.
A frightening new type of motor fraud is costing up to £40m a year, claims the Association of Britis...
Law firm advocates mediation instead of court confrontation.
Law firm Morgan Cole has impressed on insurers the need to utilise mediation techniques as a viable ...
Multi-million flood bill can be cut.
Over one million homes and businesses in the UK are more at risk from floods than fire, but only 5% ...
Art of the matter.
Opus Corporate Risk is to launch a new range of services for the arts and media sector. Aimed at eve...
Fraud: it's time to play hard ball.
The battle against fraud will never be won - that was one of the messages from Post Magazine's Insur...
All creatures great & small.
Despite the fact that pet ownership in the UK is falling, the cost of keeping an animal is rising, which means a man's best friend may well be his insurer when things go wrong. David Fanning talks to some of the main players involved in pet insurance
Insurance won't suffer post-merger says law firm.
City solicitor Wilde Sapte has shrugged off suggestions that its insurance practice will disappear o...