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Mutuals not a better deal.
Your editorial comment 'Dimming the mutual galaxy' (PM, 1 July, p15) strikes an unrealistic note. ...
Physical attributes.
Technology is a vital tool in the processing of insurance claims, and Physical Evaluation Systems has identified the most effective way of using this to enhance its services.
Threat to loss adjusters.
The biggest threat to loss adjusters over the next 10 years is not from each other but from accounta...
Raise cap or risk failure.
The proposed 1% cap on charges for managing stakeholder will defeat the purpose of the government-sp...
Credit hire hostility is not helping anyone.
I read with interest the continuing debate about the effects of Dimond v Lovell, and in particular M...
Commentary - The dangers of malingering.
The recent decision that allegations of malingering are serious allegations of fraud raises the stak...
Focus on proposals.
Focus Business Solutions has launched an electronic data capture method for insurance policy proposa...
A train crash is not a publicity gift.
I am extremely dismayed by the comments attributed to Peter Golding of McLarens Toplis (PM 1 July p1...
Willis and MoD partnership.
Willis Risk Solutions has gained access to a team of over 11,000 scientists and engineers following ...
Wise network launched.
The organisation being created by the merger of the three electronic networks for the insurance indu...
Aon's new partner.
Aon Risk Services has announced a further strategic partnership in the UK, this time with AV-VACS Se...
Speedy benefits.
Fast assessment of rehabilitation cases can help both patient and practitioner. Keith Sankey explains.
No cheap cover.
With legislation increasing employers' cost pressures, Susan Robinson looks at how legal expenses insurance policies can deal with these changes.
What the Papers Say.
THE EXPRESS Nine families whose relatives died from the human form of mad cow disease are suing t...
Scottish Widows stands fast.
Scottish Widows has defended its decision to demutualise after accepting a £7bn offer from banking g...
Insurance industry is clamping down.
The insurance industry is clamping down on dishonest travellers this summer in an effort to reduce b...
The Domino effect.
Lotus Domino claims to have cut the time it takes between a customer making a claim and receiving pa...
Woolf sparks skills shortage.
The insurance industry is facing a skills shortage following a dramatic rise in the number of insure...
Darling fails to charm pension providers.
Pension providers hoping for leeway in charges for delivering stakeholder found little cheer from th...
Group plans.
Group personal pension plans will be allowed to be named stakeholder pensions providing safeguards a...
GM crop cover.
An agricultural underwriter has warned brokers and farmers over policy changes in the wake of the ge...
Pensions styled for hairdressers.
Legal & General is to offer pensions at a snip with a pioneering 'pre-stakeholder' plan for hairdres...
Panel cuts.
General insurer Iron Trades is to slash its panel of solicitors from over 50 to just 12 in a bid to ...
Commentary - MoD under fire from damages.
Personal Injury claims against the Ministry of Defence are rising, with nearly 15,000 servicemen bri...