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Not always a beautiful option.
Insurance firms are getting increasingly sophisticated in their choice of legal firms. Audrey Snee examines the stiffening competition in the beauty parades and what this means for the future relationship between insurers and law firms.
Howden restructure.
Specialist broker Howden Spear Gulland has restructured to form Hyperion Insurance Group. The new co...
Court victory for brain-damaged boxer.
Boxer Michael Watson was injured during a high-profile bout. He suffered a sub-dural haemorrhage whi...
Seminars on tour.
Zurich IFA Group is holding a series of Professional Development Foundation seminars to explain to a...
Iron Trades teams up with Marsh.
Iron Trades has teamed up with broker Marsh to help the New Millennium Experience Company get off th...
New friends.
A two-way street has opened up between Lloyd's and the London companies market, as both realise they need each other for the greater good of the London Market. Marcus Alcock reports on the innovations of this union.
Going global.
The Worldwide Broker Network has signed up five new brokers: ADD in Belgium, Rasini Vigano in Italy,...
Appointment at Vale Insurance Brokers.
Kevin Roberts is to run the new Llandudno office of Vale Insurance Brokers. Mr Roberts was previousl...
CGU out to woo IFAs with pensions overhaul.
CGU Life hopes to woo independent financial advisers by making its pensions more stakeholder friendl...
St Paul Syndicate goes global.
St Paul Syndicate Management syndicate 1211 has acquired a global property team from troubled Lloyd'...
Offline brokers.
Over 60% of brokers have no website and only 10% are working towards developing one according to a n...
Crowe at Solihull supports local hospital.
Motor insurer Crowe at Solihull rallied to support a local hospital where underwriter Jimmy O'Reilly...
The human touch.
Even though technological advances are moving at a furious pace, there are areas where men should not be replaced by machines. Neil Harris explains why.
Tackling legal loopholes.
Six months into the new Woolf regime, Post Magazine surveyed a wide range of insurance claims managers to see if they felt they had adequately prepared. Alex Broad looks at the comments made.
Lloyd's/ILICA joint conference in Milan.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor addressed Lloyd's underwriters, brokers and members of Lloyd's Italian C...
A well-travelled road for agents.
Brokers and agents have always faced the challenge of being missed out of the insurance sales chain,...
Broker challenge.
Zurich Financial Services threw down the gauntlet to it brokers at an activity day in Newbury. Guest...
Radio competition winner.
Carole Nash customer adviser Sarah Cathcart (left) started her job on the right note after entering ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Although newly-formed London market insurer The Underwriter has come racing out of the blocks with a...
Taking note.
Post Magazine asked a selection of law firms to profile a recent landmark case which they believe has serious implications for insurance companies. Their wide-ranging choices impact on almost all sectors of the industry.
LIA backs mortgage rules.
The Life Insurance Association has joined the call for statutory mortgage regulation - despite conce...
Bad press - and rightly so.
What is happening to the insurance industry? One insurer is not accepting telephone calls until 12.3...
Widows win.
Scottish Widows has reported a 44% increase in new business for the first nine months of this year, ...
Axa merger on the cards.
Axa has finally conceded that Axa Re and Axa Global Risks are likely to merge. At a star-studded vid...