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Brokers offered deal by insurer.
Brokers are being urged to go out and sell key personnel insurance by a health insurer. Exeter-ba...
Sun, sea and scam.
I do not know who in Berrymans Lace Mawer wrote the article 'Pack It In' (PM 30 September, p33) but ...
£1bn fire loss figure.
UK fire losses are running at over £1bn a year says the UN - 40% higher than the Association of Brit...
Legal merger.
Nottingham-based insurance law firm Berryman & Co is to merge with fellow east Midlands company Shac...
Insurer in switch of tactics.
GE Financial Insurance is to focus on the broker and independent financial adviser market, an area i...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Barclays Bank has apologised to customers in Reading and Didcot, Berks, where...
IBRC gets official death knell.
The Treasury formally announced its plans to disband the Insurance Brokers Registration Council on T...
Barclays to rethink.
The Advertising Standards Authority has told Barclays Bank to use a different example in its health ...
On CUE to beat fraud.
Churchill insurance has taken a further step in the fight against fraud. The insurer has become t...
The phantom menace.
The use of 'phantom' ships to carry out massive sea frauds is costing insurers a fortune, as Joe Corless explains.
Ockham to develop life force.
Lloyd's insurer Ockham is to establish a life services company to provide greater access to the inde...
Pru & NU sales up.
Prudential's new business figures for the first nine months of 1999 showed worldwide sales up 60% to...
Foremost for £508m.
Zurich Financial Services Group has announced that the Insurance Exchanges managed by its subsidiary...
Appointment at Carmichael & Co.
Charlotte Knowles has been appointed claims adjuster with Maidstone-based Carmichaels & Co. She join...
Regulation updates.
Internet specialist Complinet has launched a new website aimed at providing regulatory and complianc...
A cut above its rivals.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Lloyd's loses appeal.
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Lloyd's cannot serve bankruptcy proceedings on non-accepting Name...
ABI's 'cheatline' a success.
The Association of British Insurers' 'cheatline' for the public to tip-off suspected insurance scams...
Utopia or wasteland.
Is recruitment in the south east thriving or struggling, asks Ian Bowen.
Korean sell off.
Two of South Korea's troubled life insurance companies are to be sold to large domestic buyers. Chos...
HSBC pins hopes on high net worth and the Internet.
HSBC Select is looking to expand through the growth of its high net worth business and the Internet....
Controversial cover will at least raise rape debate.
The very nature of the proposition we call insurance places it at the heart of many of life's trauma...
Charity work may cost you dearly.
Charity should begin and end at home - unless you want to risk becoming homeless. As a race, the ...
Let's hope Turnbull is turning point.
It is to be hoped that the Turnbull Report on corporate governance will at last ensure that risk man...