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St Paul confirms its intentions.
US insurer The St Paul has confirmed it still intends to approach the stock markets again to raise a...
bid4mybusiness signs deals.
Internet-based insurance network bid4mybusiness has signed deals with affinity groups Team Boss, The...
Abbey Legal Protection teams up with loss assessors.
Abbey Legal Protection has teamed up with three loss assessors to target large regional and national...
BIBA seeks strategy to improve industry image.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association is seeking to combat the poor image and lack of confidenc...
Improveline set to expand network.
Managed claims service supplier improveline.co.uk aims to nationalise its network within 12 months t...
AIG loses contract as travel giants prepare insurance shake-up.
Travel agent Lunn Poly is understood to have placed its £100m-a-year travel insurance underwriting a...
Class action threat remains.
The failure of the claimants in the High Court this week (see p1) to win their case against manufact...
Liability class actions to rise.
Liability insurers have been warned to expect further class actions in the future against alleged fa...
Royal & Sun Alliance strikes deal.
Royal & Sun Alliance has struck a deal with State Street Bank to provide its 3000 employees across E...
Post Magazine trio win awards.
Marcus Alcock, PM deputy news editor, picked up the award for best journalist, trade research, at thi...
Appointment at Abbey National.
Abbey National business has appointed David Moran as head of sales for its re-branded cash flow fina...
Charitable foundation.
Professor David Bland, former director general of the Chartered Insurance Institute, right, was elec...
Sony and Aegon talk about life.
Japanese electronics giant Sony is in talks with insurer Aegon that could lead to it selling half it...
AIUA shows support for RABI.
Harrogate-based Agricultural Insurance Underwriting Agencies again showed its support for Royal Agri...
Palace's missile madness.
Your back page article (What the papers said this week, Post Magazine, 25 July, p48) caused me to ch...
Eureko records fall in consolidated net income.
Pan-European insurer Eureko has recorded a 4% fall in consolidated net income to EUR203.8m (£128.22m...
Pool Re extension: a broker's view
Steve Bessant gives a broker's view of the proposed chagnes to the cover provided by Pool Re. Pool ...
Authorities search offices of insurers.
Germany's competition authority last week reported that it had searched the offices of 13 insurers a...
Vertex wins customer acquisition contract.
Business process outsourcer Vertex has won a 12-month customer acquisition contract with wholesale i...
Sherwood: PI claim settled.
Insurance software provider Sherwood International has accepted £2m, in lieu of a £3.5m claim, from ...
CGI releases third quarter results.
IT and business processing services provider CGI last week released third quarter results showing re...
ATE ruling is a major landmark
Andrew Parker, Dominic Clayden and Graham Gibson believe the latest ruling in the long-running battle...
What the papers said this week.
Metro A Scarborough-based female police officer tried to make a bogus insurance claim for a set o...
Composite Legal Expenses secure deal.
Having designed a product to fit specific client requests, Composite Legal Expenses has secured a de...