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Inspections 'too long'.
More than 81,000 car repairs are stalled every year because insurers take too long to carry out insp...
Crime prevention.
Commercial Union is scouring the Internet for crime busters, having launched a web site in the lates...
J&H Marsh & McLennan acquires Turkish broker.
American broking giant J&H Marsh & McLennan has acquired Turkey's leading insurance and reinsurance ...
Banned bikers could soon be back.
Banned bikers could soon be back in the saddle thanks to a new policy offered by highway, and insura...
Survey yields alarming results.
A survey by consultants KMPG has found that over 74% of companies have not tested the security of th...
Double win for Higos.
Somerset intermediary Higos Insurance Services won £10,000 in a competition run by Zurich Insurance....
Underwriting profits double at Lloyd's.
Underwriting profits at Lloyd's for 1995 rose from 7.8% to 14.4% on underwriting capacity, with Lomo...
Rossi calls for Euro market.
Marie-Louise Rossi, the new chief executive designate of the London market association to be created...
CNA's services bid.
CNA, the fourth largest US property and casualty insurer, has asked the office of thrift supervision...
Unconnected claims could not be added.
It was not open to a reinsured to add together unconnected claims which it had paid under underlying...
Playing by job-cutting rules.
In the wake of several huge mergers across the European insurance industry, Harriet Eisner explains how the trade union MSF is arguing for changes in the way companies behave towards their staff.
In place of strife.
Alternative dispute resolution should suit insurers down to the ground, but how many companies are using it and what are its advantages. Victoria Jordan investigates.
Disappointed with the response.
Disappointed with the response of the Competition Directorate of the European Commission (DGIV), the...
Pension compensation.
Insurance firms should compensate investors who opted out of pension schemes at a rate of 5% of sala...
Sherwood partnership.
Sherwood International plans to boost sales of its models-based insurance software and services, AMA...
One-touch 999 calls welcomed.
Insurers have welcomed the arrival of a £12,000 phone link which puts puts the public in touch with ...
Broker could recover cash.
The general rule that a broker could recover premiums even if he had not yet paid them to the insure...
New Sedgwick firm.
Sedgwick Noble Lowndes has set up a new company, Sedgwick Outsourcing Services, to attack the growin...
Setting representation record straight.
Further to your article relating to Collegiate Insurance Brokers linking up with Equity Claims Manag...
Insurers furious at Euro red tape.
European red tape could bind the hands of sellers of non-life insurance. The Association of Briti...
Taking it personally.
Selling personal accident cover is still proving as troublesome ever. Meanwhile, claims are rising and so too are the different ways employees are being injured. Ruth Addicott asks how insurers are tackling this problem area.
Subsidence claims set to total £40m.
Subsidence claims continue to eat huge holes in claims budgets, with insurers set to pay out an extr...
Swiss system refit.
Swiss Life UK has invested in a revolutionary intranet developed by European IT services groups CMG ...