Claims
Unum offers return-to-work guidelines
Unum Provident has launched a checklist of guidelines for employers to help members of staff return ...
Know your rights: This month - Workplace Surveillance
Nicola Hosfield explains the various regulations, codes of practices and guidelines that govern employee rights in the emotive areas of surveillance and monitoring
Commentary - Cracks exposed in UK ceramics industry
The ceramics industry is experiencing severe difficulties as it struggles to cope with competition f...
96% think 'blame and claim' culture on the rise in Britain
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Rallying against a risk-averse society
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Refuse 'bonkers' claims, high-street firms urged
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ATE can beat 'farmers'
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QuestGates' environmental claims unit relocates
QuestGates' environmental claims unit relocated from Oxford to Maidstone this week. The unit was set...
Swiss Re calls for more research
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Xosoft to provide replication system
Xosoft will provide a replication system for Max Re's hurricane-prone Bermuda headquarters. Its prod...
Crisis is 'fuelled by public inability to connect premium rises with claims'
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Windsor Group pre-tax profits up 17%
The Windsor Group has revealed a transformation in the fortunes of its retail broking subsidiary Win...
Costs, not claims, the issue
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Phillipson joins Hardy Underwriting
Specialist insurer Hardy Underwriting has announced that its new financial institutions underwriting team is complete following the appointment of Tom Phillipson.
Swiss Re calls for nanotechnology research
Swiss Re has called for more research on the possible effects of the growing use of nanotechnology.
Local authorities failing on emergency planning says Marsh
Broker Marsh, is claiming that Britain's local authorities are largely unprepared for the impending Civil Contingencies legislation, which is set to become law later this year.
Apil campaign to tackle rehab take-up
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has launched a campaign to increase the use of rehabilita...
Appointment at Mills & Reeve
Mills & Reeve has appointed two new professional indemnity solicitors to its London office. Virginia...
Appointment at Vision Underwriting
Huw Griffiths has become legal expenses after-the-event underwriting manager at Vision Underwriting....
Appointment at Ryan Insurance Group
Ian Ling has joined the commercial insurance team as commercial account handler at Ryan Insurance Gr...
Getting better sooner
Rehabilitation
Government publishes guidance for directors of quoted firms
The Government's Operating Financial Review Working Group today published guidance for company directorsproducing Operating and Financial Reviews, which will be a requirement for all UK quoted companies from the beginning of 2005.
NU sceptical about voice-stress analysis
Norwich Union does not believe voice-stress analysis to be an essential fraud-detection technique, d...
Commentary - Appeal decision not likely to have stress impact
The case of Walker v Northumberland CC (1994) was an early decision which highlighted that, where an...