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Appointment at Towergate Underwriting Group.
Lynda Thwaites has joined Towergate Underwriting group as human resources co-ordinator. Previously s...
Legal and General.
Legal and General is to help a football club's fans beat the financial exclusion blues. Birmingham C...
Axa says FA Cup deal is up and running.
Axa has hit back at claims that Manchester United's decision to pull out of this year's FA Cup is th...
Brokers: blow your own trumpets.
It is now more important than ever for brokers to effectively communicate the real added benefits th...
Far 2 much 4 Y2K.
Over 40% of UK organisations are being ripped off by IT services companies over millennium issues, a...
Commentary - Stopping cases before they start.
A professional negligence pre-action protocol has now been drafted and comments should be sent to th...
Penny Black's insurance week.
What a week it's been. Fin de sie cle madness seemed to engulf the nation as everyone raced from the...
Brokers have edge on direct.
Brokers are beginning to win the battle against direct writers in the motor market, says market anal...
How an insurer helped move old house of God in new mysterious ways.
I would like to recognise the outstanding way that my insurance company, NIG Skandia, and the adjust...
Pension alternative.
CGU Life has launched a new profit annuity product as an alternative means of providing income durin...
Risk and responsibility.
The developing world needs major upgrades in its infrastructure to meet the needs of its burgeoning population. Who is going to provide the funding and take the risks. Richard Willsher finds out.
Losses can't dent CGU profits.
CGU's interim results showed an operating profit of £420m, up 5% on 1998's figure. This was ach...
Les is more.
Chief executive of Axa Sun Life Les Owen takes up the position of group managing director of Nationa...
Hiscox dump Fitch.
Hiscox has dumped Fitch IBCA as one of the ratings agencies it uses. At Hiscox's request, Fitch IBCA...
Appointment at Helphire Group.
Barry Williams and Lisa Nicholas have joined Helphire Group to head the new national sales team of i...
Nordic merger.
Skandia has confirmed it is to ditch its Nordic non-life companies and merge them with those of othe...
Lords decide bank not guilty of discrimination.
A woman worked for Midland Bank from 2 July 1979. She worked full-time until taking maternity leave....
Salvage update.
A new form of compensation for salvage firms involved in environmental damage came into effect this ...
How would you like your stake?
The answer is well-done if your talking about stakeholder pensions, because, as Francis Higney reports, any half-baked pension provision could only mean another radical shake-up in a few years.
Hughes and Company.
Northern Irish broking giant Hughes and Company has moved into a new £2m custom-built headquarters i...
Appointment at CMG.
European IT services group CMG has appointed William Watling as project director in its life assuran...
Not all that it seems.
I am writing regarding Penny Black's comment about the attendance of 29 at the football match betwee...
GIO pulls out of reinsurance after disastrous year.
GIO Australia Holdings is to pull the plug on its reinsurance operation after posting record losses ...
Appointment at Loss Adjusters Limited.
Malcolm Head has joined Gibraltar-based Loss Adjusters Limited as a director. Mr Head will be respon...