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Countrywide deal for broker.
Professional indemnity broker SBJ Stephenson has been made the new provider of PI facilities for Cou...
Address these issues now.
The gradual unveiling by the government of its thinking on stakeholder pensions is proving a soberin...
Providing protection for British soldiers.
As the precarious peace negotiations with Serbia looked to have faltered this week, the Armed Forces...
Jumping the NHS queue.
A leading health insurer has devised a new public/private partnership which allows patients to jump ...
We won't stitch you up,' CGU Life tells IFAs.
A leading life insurer has pledged it will not 'stitch-up' independent financial advisers in advance...
Holocaust commission makes headway on claims holdups.
The international commission set up to settle the dispute between Holocaust survivors and insurers o...
And then the sky fell in.
The experts claim to be confident that the millennium bug has been eradicated from aviation systems, but does that really mean there will be no Y2K claims? Adrian Leonard investigates.
IFAs fear for their future.
Trade bodies are ignoring the plight of independent financial advisers as the introduction of stakeh...
Stakeholder on solid ground.
The government's stakeholder pension plans received a massive boost with the news that one scheme is...
Recharges call for intensive care.
The insurance industry fears hard-up health authorities may see proposed NHS recharges as an excuse ...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
A team of healthcare experts has joined Property & Casualty Services. The team is led by business de...
Firms under fire from customers.
The life and pensions industry is feeling the wrath of policyholder power in the wake of mis-selling...
Appointment at RP Hodson.
Vaughan Williams has been promoted at RP Hodson insurance brokers from an internal account handler t...
A remedy for years of pension botch-ups.
The only reason pensions are so complicated is because government after government has meddled in an effort to reform the system. Steve Bee argues that it does not have to be this way.
Ocaso upgraded.
Ocaso of Spain has posted a profit of over £22m for last year - an increase of 35% on profits achiev...
Cendant Claims Plus sold for over £1bn.
Claims handler Cendant Claims Plus has been sold as part of the £1.125bn acquisition of Cendant Busi...
The easy way to a pension.
Chartered accountants can now pick up their pension with peace of mind thanks to new product from PI...
Bee's stinging prediction.
There will be no such thing as retirement in the future without access to parallel pension schemes. ...
Survey backs compulsion.
Consumers and pension providers support compulsory stakeholder contributions, claims the Life Insura...
IFAs business on the up.
Independent financial advisers have reported a surge in new business over the last quarter and are f...
Appointment at Garwyn Liability Adjusters.
Three appointments have been made at Garwyn Liability Adjusters. Steve Ford has been promoted to dev...
Fraudbusting hits the Internet.
The Association of British Insurers has extended its fraud whistle-blowing facility to the Internet ...
Korma Blimey.
A woman accused of killing four neighbours, including two children, with arsenic-laced curry went on...
All in bad faith.
The American insurance industry has been dominated by bad faith litigation for over a decade. Martin Bruffell believes the Woolf Reforms may prove to be the catalyst for bad faith to cross the Atlantic.