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No broker panels for PRI.
Professional Risks Insurance, the London market liability insurer that intends to raise £130m when i...
Appointment at 1st Software.
1st Software, the provider of integrated technology solutions to financial advisers and intermediari...
Eye Risk launched this week by GAB Robins.
Instant collation of claims data is to become available to risk managers with the launch this week o...
Accidents will happen.
Every five minutes, someone in the UK has a serious accident - and many of these happen in the home. Yet personal accident insurance is relatively low on most people's shopping list. Simon Threadgold looks at how insurers are getting the importance of…
MMA increases its online offering.
Broker-only insurer MMA has increased its online offering, on the Software Solutions Partners Gilt E...
Subsidence monitoring questioned.
Loss adjusters and engineers have been challenged to justify the almost universal monitoring of buil...
NU to open up data files to rivals.
Chris Hill, who took over as head of claims fraud at Norwich Union in April, plans to try to kick-sta...
Appointment at Misys Insurance Management.
Tim Rogers has been appointed to the newly-created position of Countrywide fleet manager at Misys In...
Appointment at Hill Dickinson.
Law firm Hill Dickinson has promoted Adrian Marsh to the position of partner in its Manchester offic...
Insurers losing £70m a year.
Insurers are losing £70m a year in larger claims settlements because policyholders are taking too lo...
Audatex teams up with Allianz Cornhill.
Audatex has teamed up with Allianz Cornhill to launch a new programme to address the training needs ...
Cornhill rules out online channel for commercial lines.
Allianz Cornhill has ruled out offering any commercial lines insurance products direct to clients vi...
A new dawn.
Changes are streaming down on the role of the risk manager, with increasing liaison between client, broker and insurer essential in the production of a long-term, co-ordinated risk management strategy. Hugo Cranmore sheds some light on the subject.
Insurers fail to respond on cost savings.
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Off to a shaky start.
So far, local authorities are not scoring particularly well when it comes to developing modern strategies for risk management. But, as insurers become more discerning about the risks they cover, Veronica Cowan says the public sector must tread carefully.
Judgement day.
The shortlisted companies in this year's prestigious British Insurance Awards were announced at a sp...
Sugar losses leave a bad taste in the mouth - James Budgett Sugars v
(QBD Commercial Court - 15 May 2002) The claimant (Budgett) supplied Kerry Ingredients (Kerry) wit...
Chaucer Syndicates expands into financial institutions arena.
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer Syndicates has expanded into the financial institutions arena, with the appo...
Appointment at Experian.
Global information solutions company Experian has recruited Gary Wood as managing director of its fr...
M&SFS to segment market with Cedar.
Marks & Spencer Financial Services has signed a three-year deal with Cedar Knowledge Solutions to he...
The way to go.
The answer to combating the challenges faced by the insurance industry does not lay in increasing premium rates, says Rachel Gordon, but in making risk management a core part of an insurance policy.
Latin American market set for growth, says Swiss Re
Hardening premium rates globally and pension reforms locally are likely to be key drivers in the cont...
Usage of the web-based Equasis database ...
Usage of the web-based Equasis database for quality and safety information on the world merchant fle...
Telematics and CybIT team up with Norwich Union.
Telematics and fleet management solutions provider CybIT has teamed up with Norwich Union to help it...