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IT training show.
The latest products, services and ideas for the UK and European job training market will be unveiled...
Data goes on disk.
Specialist motor broker Footman James is enhancing the paperless environment at its West Midlands of...
Arsonists for hire.
Professional arsonists are charging as little as £200 to torch a car for insurance write-off purpose...
Choice lures the cream.
Employers seeking to recruit the cream of the country's workforce are to be given a helping hand by ...
Share Watch.
Wars are supposed to destroy capital and topple stock markets, but both London and Wall Street conti...
Glass's Information Services' new Motor Claims division.
Glass's Information Services has engineered a new Motor Claims division to provide individual soluti...
Fighting fraud.
A credit industry initiative to crack down on fraud resulted in record savings of at least £135m las...
Solent centre opens.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Ellis & Buckle officially opened its Solent Service Centre on Monday, compl...
Mergers overlook IT problems.
The insurance industry has been warned that mergers are causing unprecedented data integration probl...
Get on board the fight against fraud'.
Insurance companies must do more to help eradicate fraud, which is costing the industry a whopping £...
The shipping news.
The London company market's marine account failed to turn a profit again last year, and indications are that 1999 will be similar. Adrian Leonard reports.
CCTV prompts Cornhill deal with broker.
The Woking branch of Cornhill Insurance has joined forces with broker Tuley Hall to launch an initia...
Higher Excel limits.
Methodist Insurance has increased the limits on its home policy and set up a 24-hour helpline to sup...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny Black has delight in congratulating Lynn Santer on the publication of her novel Sins of Life. ...
GISC embodiment of current ethical crisis.
All symptoms of the ethical crisis that grips the insurance industry are seen in the proposed GISC (...
Cigna restructured in Ace interim.
Insurer Cigna, which is being bought by Bermuda-based Ace for £2.12bn has undergone comprehensive re...
Celebration of centenary of close business ties.
John Carrigan of Hinkley brokers JR Carrigan & Son and wife Ruth at a reception given by Zurich to c...
Axa managers bag shares worth £4.5m.
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings, the Axa subsidiary, granted share options worth more than £4.5m at t...
Fury over call to hike legal damages.
The Law Commission has made a monumental blunder in calling for an increase in damages awards - and ...
Strong IFA sales lift Pru premiums.
Prudential has reported an 18% rise in UK life and pension premiums for the first quarter, thanks pr...
Out-of-touch managers must delegate decisions'.
There were some hard facts hammered home to delegates at the conference and AGM of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters in Edinburgh last week. Francis Higney was there to hear them.
Weather focus - Downpours rain on March parade.
March was another mild month across the UK with temperatures eclipsing the Mediterranean on occasion...
Since when did money mean more than lives?
I refer to the article 'Insurers act in wake of NATO blitz' (PM 1 April, p3). While I appreciate ...
Beijing brokers.
With the walls to business in China crumbling slowly, the Heath Group brokerage is the among the lat...