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We failed: RSA chief.
PauI Spencer, UK chief executive of Royal & Sun Alliance, said his compnay had failed its customers ...
House vendors information pack.
Insurers this week welcomed proposals requiring house vendors to prepare and pay for an information ...
$1bn record award.
A record $1bn (£600m) verdict has been awarded against insurer State Farm in a class action lawsuit ...
Bleak perspective.
Martin Albers, chief executive officer of Swiss Re UK, said the industry was in poor shape in terms ...
Bland attacks risk trend.
The current trend among major corporate clients towards retaining a greater proportion of risk or us...
Skills shortage is an industry crisis.
The insurance industry does not have the right skills for the challenges presented by the convergenc...
Appointment at Putsmans Solicitors.
Personal injury solicitor Lisa Rhodes has joined Putsmans solicitors as an associate. She will be ba...
RSA's £42m bill.
Royal & Sun Alliance has revealed that natural disasters may have cost it £42m in the third quarter ...
New healthcare firm targets expatriates.
Morgan Price International Healthcare, set up this year to offer consultancy services to UK health i...
PMI launch.
Health insurer Western Provident Association hopes to encourage loyalty and boost productivity with ...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill International.
David Hall has been promoted to national broker manager for Allianz Cornhill International. Previous...
Help with Y2K.
Action 2000 has teamed up with the British Insurance Brokers Association to issue a guide to brokers...
Bid to compile legal list fails.
Attempts to draw up joint lists of experts between insurers and claimants' lawyers have floundered. ...
Legal protocols ready to roll.
Andrew Hunn of law firm Merricks warned delegates that a whole range of new protocols for handling s...
Insurers lagging.
Andy Miller of Impact Plus warned that banks and venture capitalists were in a much stronger positio...
No pressure from stress.
Insurance litigation specialists have dismissed warnings that insurers are set to be hit by a deluge...
Bradstock talks off.
Insurance broker Bradstock has called off talks with potential bidders because it was unable to agre...
Changing skills.
CII president Andrew Lund (pictured below) warned that failure to keep pace with changing skills wou...
Sandler brought in at NatWest.
The former chief executive of Lloyd's, Ron Sandler, has been appointed chief operating officer of tr...
NU hires duo in Top 10 bid.
Norwich Union has bolstered its attempt to become a top 10 money manager in the UK with two new appo...
C-ing I to I on the future.
Anthony Gould and David Worsfold report on last week's Chartered Insurance Institute annual conferen...
IFAs are key to stakeholder success.
A leading independent financial adviser network believes the future of stakeholder rests heavily on ...
Safetynet Group.
As e-commerce becomes increasingly crucial to companies' performance, the Safetynet Group, a busines...
Euro mergers rise.
Mergers and acquisitions in Europe have overtaken the US for the first time according to a new repor...