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There's a time and a place for adjusters.
I note with interest the response from Chris Miller ('Long live adjusters', PM 25 March, p20) of the...
Stakeholders slated.
A consumer watchdog has blasted the government's stakeholder pensions proposals and urged it to impl...
Appointment at Ward Evan Group.
Several appointments have been made by Ward Evans Group to its corporate insurance broking arm. Susa...
Race against time.
Updating IT sytems is an integral part of being ready for the Woolf reforms. Alex Miller finds that some companies are keeping pace while others are lagging behind.
Compulsion is key to pension success.
Insurance industry pensions experts met last week at a specially convened business breakfast to voice fears over the government's plans to reform pensions provision. Francis Higney and David Worsfold report.
Providers wary of laws.
Pension providers are scared of testing the water with new pension products in case they fall foul o...
PEP up your jargon.
If you have trouble sorting out your TESSAS from your ISAs, a new guide from United Friendly could h...
The typing's on the wall for manual inputting.
Manual data entry could follow the typewriter into the confines of history with the launch of a prod...
Reducing costs is biggest challange.
The greatest challenge to the industry posed by stakeholder is to get operating costs down. This ...
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.
Claws sunk into CAT scheme.
Fears were raised about how the industry would cope during the volatile transition period before sta...
Commentary - Bill is not a help but a burden.
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, which is likely to come into effect on 5 April, appears to be y...
Cook to fry fraud.
Fraudsters watch out. Thomas Cook has launched an investigative unit using the scientific claims scr...
Police defend Lloyd's.
City of London police have moved swiftly to defend the reputation of the Lloyd's insurance market fo...
Woolf workshops.
Cornhill has produced a newsletter for its brokers to help them understand the impact of the upcomin...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Financial analysts Bacon & Woodrow pride themselves on the accuracy of their information. So it came...
London's rising damp.
The race is on to stem the rising water table which is threatening widespread property damage in Lon...
Y2K: US firms hit hard.
US property/casualty insurers will be harder hit by year 2000 costs than life/health companies accor...
Exclusive - RSA offers no win, no fee cover.
Royal & Sun Alliance has launched an innovative 'after-the-event' protection plan aimed at tipping t...
Banks kept at bay.
Aegon has announced a 24.5% increase in annual net profit to £0.85bn with US results bringing a stro...
Millennium plans vital to fight risk.
Sharing with confidence will help defeat fears over the Millennium Bug, argues Derek Brighton of Reed Elsevier.
The Loss Recovery Group devises new scheme.
The Loss Recovery Group has devised a new scheme to cut the claims handling costs of brokers. Instea...
Share Watch.
They say that share buy-backs are the last resort of a management team which has lost its direction,...
LTC stuck in purgatory.
The becalmed long term care market is destined to remain in limbo following the Royal Commission's r...