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IFAs can cash in through new disabled law.
Tough legislation concerning the treatment of disabled people could provide a new opportunity for in...
Insurers losing out on ISAs.
Insurers are missing out on the popularity of individual savings accounts according to statistics re...
Post Magazine scores double win.
Post Magazine scored a remarkable double by winning General Insurance Magazine of the Year and Best ...
Blackburn dies.
Brian Blackburn, a director with Manchester brokers Alec Finch & Company, has died aged 57. The insu...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill Engineering.
Allianz Cornhill Engineering has installed a new management team. It comprises Jason Griffiths as re...
Where will mortgage regulation end up living?
Mortgage regulation - the lack of it and the future of it - is fast becoming a farce. The Treasury l...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
Nick Hatch has been promoted by Ecclesiastical Insurance to intermediary sales manager at its Glouce...
Norwich Union turns crimebuster.
Norwich Union has published a handbook to help small and medium-sized firms beat the burglars. Re...
Appointment at Clement Doherty & Co.
Jamie Kemp has left Cunningham Ellis & Buckle after 16 years to join specialist City loss adjuster C...
Groupama vows 'to get it right'.
Gan and Lombard have emerged from the rigours of merger with an aggressive strategy designed to crea...
First for Nationwide.
Nationwide building society has begun what is believed to be the world's first customer trial of spe...
More courses added.
Broker Direct has added to its series of training courses. Some places are still available at its ve...
Halifax to go online.
Halifax will sell insurance over the Internet from next April. The company said £600m would be inves...
Exclusive - Heads roll at Axa?
A shake-up of top management at Axa has seen one high-profile departure and uncertainty surrounding ...
Road to victory.
Axa's Alex Rowe raced to victory in the Insurance 10 mile road Race at Battersea Park. It marked a h...
Firm lays down law of the land.
A law firm has stressed the importance of environmental risk analysis in light of forthcoming change...
FSA may defy treasury
The Financial Services Authority may defy the Treasury and set up an independent complaints commissio...
Media Awards.
Post Magazine was voted the Best General Insurance Trade Publication for a third time at last week's...
Appointment at Friends Provident.
Martin Jackson has joined the board of Friends Provident as group finance director, succeeding Tom P...
Meditating on mediation.
After an initial period of hostility, lawyers have come to see the benefits of alternative dispute resolution. Simon Threadgold outlines how it can save both time and money.
Appointment at AIG Europe.
AIG Europe has appointed David Palmer as London-based crisis management corporate manager for the UK...
Grassroots champion.
David Worsfold meets Reg Brown, the straight-talking new president of the Chartered Insurance Institute, who has a hectic agenda lined up for his year in office.
Go directly to debit.
Small and medium-sized brokers and intermediaries are being encouraged to get their house in order t...
Winter of discontent warning.
A salvage company chief has warned that winter could bite hard for several businesses in the sector....