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ASC's new digital recording device.
Call centre managers are now able to record up to 65,000 separate conversations on a single hard dis...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Several new staff have joined Property & Casualty Services. Four new liability adjusters are Mark Ol...
Football competition winners.
John Smith is the third winner in the Avon Insurance Combination Football competition. An insuran...
Union City blues hit shares.
The stock market has reacted disapprovingly to the proposed merger of CGU and Norwich Union, wiping ...
Open season.
Post Magazine analyses the implications of the CGU and NU merger for both firms' staff, the stock market and the global insurance industry.
Wood's forecast.
Peter Wood (above) the founder of Direct Line who has been hired by Halifax to launch an Internet-ba...
Flasher with nothing worth looking at.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
JLT to focus on the Internet
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thomson said it expects its e-commerce strategy to play a major part in its deve...
Hackers warning.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor (below) has highlighted the need for companies involved in e-business to...
Newly created company will be.
- The UK's largest insurance group, with worldwide premium income and retail investment sales of £26...
Don't leave customers as a merger afterthought.
We are concerned at the merger of Norwich Union and CGU. Experience has shown that economies of sc...
Prescott to rule on Swiss Re head office
John Prescott, the environment secretary has announced this morning that he is considering whether to...
Royal London confirms £1.5bn bid for UAG
Mutual Royal London this morning confirmed its £1.5bn agreed bid for insurer United Assurance Group. ...
4000 jobs to go in UK as CGNU is born
The boards of CGU and Norwich Union this morning confirmed the merger of the two companies to create ...
PIA suspends firm.
The Personal Investment Authority has suspended Grosvenor Employee Benefits of Swindon. The interven...
Finding the right tools for the job.
Alternative risk transfer is an area that is growing all the time, yet David Chancellor discovers that recruiting the right staff means looking away from traditional insurance skills.
Exclusive - AIG to open in Belfast.
AIG Europe is to open a new office in Belfast later this year. A spokeswoman for the company confi...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has made Brian Wood director general of its French operation Independent Insur...
Ratings agency predicts turbulence in P&I sector.
The Protection & Indemnity market is heading for stormy waters, according to a new report by rating ...
Beginning of the end?
Mutuals look like a throwback to the past in today's fast-changing, consolidating insurance world. ...
Intech wins contract.
Insurance software specialist Intech Solutions has won a contract to supply Sackville, managing agen...
... a risk manager.
In the second part of our new series, Anthony Gould spent a day with Graeme Lee, risk manager at logistics company Tibbett & Britten to find out what a risk manager gets up to ...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL A couple's weekend break at a hotel ended with them spending seven hours in police cel...
IBM picks Siebel.
IBM has selected e-business specialist Siebel eBusiness Applications on a global basis. Siebel will ...