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Talking insurance strategy - Insurance 2000.
Date for your diary: Post Magazine's popular and highly respected annual strategic conference for se...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Officials investigating the death of Simon Long, a rider killed at the Burghl...
Branding vital in virtual age.
The importance of branding to the financial services industry was hammered home to delegates by Dann...
Boom in legal cover.
Demand for legal expenses cover has grown dramatically since the present government came to power, a...
US/Japan venture.
American International Group KK, the Japanese arm of US insurer AIG, and Orix, a Japanese leasing co...
Appointment at Jardine Lloyd Thompson.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Corporate Risks has appointed Alan Percival as its regional managing director...
Insurers insist they're safe from the hackers.
The insurance industry this week moved to affirm the integrity of its e-commerce security systems fo...
Days of thunder mark Weathernet report.
According to the Cunningham Weathernet report for July 1999 thunderstorms caused considerable damage...
Insurers failing to maximise 'Net.
The world without boundaries created by the Internet also provides a headache for governments as the...
Head-in-the-sand attitude to Y2K will get you beached.
The problems with the satellite navigation network recently highlighted the difficulties which we mi...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Graeme Sutton has been chosen to succeed Michael Gaughan as marketing manager of Independent Insuran...
Appointment at NIG Skandia.
Bob Butler has joined NIG Skandia as information systems manager. Previously he held similar positio...
Bryan James & Co.
Music specialists Bryan James & Co has composed a new policy to help out aspiring Pete Tongs and Spi...
Britannic looks to strengthen its IFA profile.
Britannic Assurance has denied it is ditching its industrial book business as it looks to strengthen...
P&I Group: oil's not well.
The International Group of protection and indemnity clubs has hit out at Aon's decision to launch an...
GAB says shake-up is coming.
GAB Robins has dismissed rumours it will use the announcement of its new American parent to cut staf...
Cornhill mission to be benchmark.
Cornhill has embarked on a mission to become "the benchmark by which other insurers are judged". ...
EMU is no dodo.
Insurers' complacent attitude to Economic Monetary Union could mean they miss new business opportunities, whether the UK joins or not, argues Alan Clark.
Cash reward for trainee IFAs.
The Financial Services Training College has devised a scheme to help reward the independent financia...
MetLife's $1bn cash buy.
New-York-based MetLife is to pay $1.2bn cash for General American Life while agreeing to pay £1bn to...
Online business - time to use it or lose it.
It is time for the talking to stop and the action to start. After years of discussion about the oppo...
Leaves too many questions.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Neither a waste of time nor money.
I was surprised to read that lawyers at Hill Dickinson believe the Woolf reforms are leading to esca...
In the wake of Woolf.
With the Woolf Reforms now several months' old, Ken Cannar looks at the impact that they have had so far and also on the ways in which they have still to affect legal cases for insurers.