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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 ...
Bid to claw back £3bn.
The industry has moved to slash the estimated £3bn lost to businesses last year because of employee ...
Still in the dark over stakeholder pensions.
Are we much wiser about the government's plans for stakeholder pensions after the announcements last...
Counting the pennies.
Cathy Hargreaves and Jamie Randell explain why the threatened removal of VAT group treatment could have a catastrophic effect for insurers.
What the papers say.
THE SUN The latest chart-topping girl band, All Saints, ran for their insurance policies when the...
Archer aims at D&Os.
Archer Underwriting is hoping to hit the target with its new worldwide policy for company managers a...
Two go at Hiscox.
A damage limitation exercise was activated this week by a Lloyd's syndicate following the revelation...
Population must become savers.
Demos deputy director Ian Christie warned the conference audience how "an ageing UK population must ...
Sewing the seeds of the LIA 50 years early.
The Life Insurance Association has just celebrated its 25th anniversary, but may be the seeds of its...
Witchell a success as chairman.
BBC Newscaster Nicholas Witchell chaired the Insurance '98 to the Millennium conference. Througho...
Insurers can plug gaps in DSS'.
Insurers can help patch the the holes in the increasingly threadbare social security blanket, advise...
Financial illiterates.
Many people are ill-prepared to make financial decisions because of poor basic financial literacy, s...
Easing pain of prescription hike.
Western Provident Association is pushing its cash injection policy to help ease the pain of increase...
Merger chief must bring a dose of commonsense.
The white smoke has at long last emerged from the lofty portals of the London market and we have a c...
Irish Life reports rise in profits.
Irish Life, Ireland's largest insurer, last week reported a rise in operating profit of 21% in 1997 ...
Davidson says professionalism is missing link for success.
Closing the conference, Chartered Insurance Institute president Ken Davidson said that increased pro...
Ups and downs of Portfolio Analysis.
Figures show 306 insurers boosted their position in the industry in terms of sales in the past four ...
Boots to offer prescriptions for health and travel covers.
Boots the Chemists has joined the High Street stampede into the insurance market, it was announced o...
Not a team of tea leafs.
Eyebrows have been raised following a feature in last week's PM which quoted Guardian's business dev...
What the papers say.
THE SUN Royal & Sun Alliance is warning of the increased chances of burglaries during the longer ...
Staffware exceeds all expectations.
A report has found that companies who implemented Staffware workflow software have enjoyed much grea...