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Avon Insurance develops guide.
Avon Insurance has developed a bluffers' guide to marketing to help brokers generate extra income. M...
Launch of Home Repairs Log Book.
Anna Ryder-Richardson, presenter of the BBC's Changing Rooms, knows a good idea when she sees one, w...
Getting the low-down on the farm.
Farm insurance provider Agricultural Insurers Underwriting Agency has designed a broker support pack...
Cook to fry fraud.
Fraudsters watch out. Thomas Cook has launched an investigative unit using the scientific claims scr...
Card cover wrangle.
A taxpayer offered credit card holders, on payment of a sum, a plan to protect them against financia...
Claws sunk into CAT scheme.
Fears were raised about how the industry would cope during the volatile transition period before sta...
Reasons to be cheerful ...
The annual Post Magazine conference saw industry experts outline the huge opportunities, rather than problems, facing insurers as they enter the millennium. David Worsfold, Anthony Gould and Francis Higney report.
Hewitt tries to calm FSA fears.
Economic Secretary Patricia Hewitt has moved to allay fears surrounding the accountability of the Fi...
Don't let the golden egg turn rotten.
Two major private medical insurance providers have been referred to the Office of Fair Trading for refusing customers access to particular hospitals. Sharon Lyons outlines the arguments against allowing insurers the right to make that choice.
Seminar at CGU headquarters.
Over 100 insurers, charities, local authorities and academics attended a seminar at CGU headquarters...
Knowing where the heart is.
Underwriting is the premier concern in any successful insurance organisation, which highlights the importance of training and education in this area. Diane Bromley explains.
Regulator's dirty dozen list is irresponsible.
The announcement by the Financial Services Authority that it has 12 top financial firms on a hit-lis...
Aye say, ISA ...
Scottish Amicable is hoping for a healthy future with its latest launch, Optimisa. The 'Maxi' Indivi...
Government attacked from all sides over pensions.
The government has failed miserably in its attempts to improve the pensions products of the low paid...
Share Watch.
It is a bitter irony of the unit trust industry that it is more profitable to buy the stock of a fun...
The drugs do work.
South African financial services Fedsure is set to acquire the healthcare business of SA Druggists f...
Appointment at Copenhagen Re.
Three new underwriters have joined CNA Re. Paul Brown, a property treaty underwriter, joins from Swi...
WIN-ning team.
Brockbank Syndicate Management and Aon have joined forces to initiate the first reinsurance recovery...
Farmyard frights.
With agricultural risks spiralling, insurers could soon face a windfall of claims. Rural raiders, the Millennium Bug and staff cut backs are among the latest crop of problems to soil the industry. Jonathan Swift investigates.
Whatever happened to common sense?
I write regarding the recent letters and articles on windscreen information discs. I regularly si...
2000 warning.
Up to 80% of all financial services institutions will be involved in a strategic alliance by 2000, a...
Hiscox syndicate 33 launches new policy.
With the heat once again being turned up in Northern Ireland following the fatal car bomb attack on ...
Bang on target.
A scheme aimed at the right group of people can turn into a real money-spinner if there is a good relationship between the group, the broker and the insurer, as David Fanning finds out.