Claims
No win, no fee debt service.
Lloyd's managing agency Euclidian has signed a deal with the law firm Eversheds as part of a new web...
What the Papers Say.
THE SUN How much worse can things get for Claims Direct? Even TV presenter Will Hanrahan, who fro...
Zurich Financial Services denies chairman is to resign.
Zurich Financial Services last week denied chairman and chief executive Rolf Huppi was planning to r...
Appointment at Eversheds.
The insurance team of Eversheds North-East has recruited Suzi Jenkins, who was previously a solicito...
Virgin pensions aid.
Virginmoney.com has introduced a stakeholder pensions information service to help customers understa...
Rehabilitation First campaign Reaches out to the industry.
Post Magazine's Rehabilitation First campaign - shortlisted for the PPA Campaign of the Year 2001 - ...
NUJ pension plan.
Norwich Union and the National Union of Journalists have teamed up to offer a tailored stakeholder p...
Insurers can't walk away.
The government has signalled it will not let the insurance industry ignore employers' liability case...
Compensation in focus.
The growing compensation culture is sending shockwaves across the insurance industry, with few remaining unaffected. Post Magazine's business breakfast focused on the issue and found it provoked vehement reactions. Jane Bernstein followed proceedings.
Gays can retire with Freedom.
Former Tory and independent financial adviser Ivan Massow has launched a new pension aimed at same-s...
BMT sets sale with Salvage Association.
British Maritime Technology, the multi-disciplinary engineering and technology consultancy, assumed ...
German merger rekindles bancassurance debate.
The Allianz Dresdner merger will reignite the debate on the relative merits of the bancassurance mod...
Power firms win pensions case
The House of Lords has overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that would have cost power firms £1.5bn in...
British Insurance Awards - Are you an award winner?
There are few ways in which you can raise the profile of your organisation and boost the morale of y...
News in brief.
GE Frankona Re, the European arm of GE Employers Re, is to pay £200,000 ($295,000) for a 25% stake i...
Asbestos register call
Over 1.4 million commercial and residential properties in the UK still contain asbestos even though i...
Husband's false claim taints entire policy.
Direct Line Insurance v Khan and Another; Queen's Bench Division; 19 December 2000.
... a City development broker.
Gareth Piggott is a development broker for City broker TL Clowes and is in the lucky position of being able to combine business with pleasure. He talks to Jane Bernstein about his role in the saddle as the company's face of motorcycle sport insurance and…
Insurers spared PI payout.
Insurers have been spared a £380m bill by a Court of Appeal decision that has kept the discount rate...
Hybrid warning.
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has expressed concern about the boundaries between...
Ex-PC loses stress liability claim.
Liability insurers were able to breath a sigh of relief last week, following the rejection by the co...
Ford claims fear.
The London market could be facing a multi-million-pound asbestos bill from car manufacturer Ford, af...
Wrong interpretation put on Fairchild.
As the solicitor representing one of the defendants in the case of Fairchild v Waddington and Leeds ...
ATE row: end in sight.
The Law Society, as predicted by Post Magazine last week (p2), has finally agreed to join the Associ...