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Help for Euro insurers.
Risk Management Solutions and English Matthews Brockman have signed a co-operation agreement to deve...
Arsonists burning £750m hole in insurers' pockets.
Incidents of arson have more than doubled in the last 10 years, costing insurers over £1m per day, d...
Mandarins hedge bets on IBRC.
Just what is one to make of the Treasury's apparent willingness to countenance a reprieve for the In...
A voice London needs.
At last the International Underwriting Association of London is off the ground, with the issues surr...
Staff pass the test.
Three employees from Harrogate-based farm insurance specialists Agricultural Insurance Underwriting ...
We're losing war on fraud'.
The insurance industry has to do something about the cost of motor fraud before premiums get to a le...
Insurers sign Armistice Day agreement for Nazi victims.
Six European firms agreed on Remembrance Day to set up a £54.2m humanitarian fund to aid Holocaust v...
Up, up and away with NU.
The first winner of Norwich Union's non-standard motor 'Great Quotes' scratchcard is an insurance cl...
Medics need more training to detect bogus injuries.
GPS need specialist medical training if they are to be the front line of the insurance industry's fi...
We must stop being a soft touch': Baker.
Association of British Insurers' deputy director general Tony Baker has urged the industry to stop b...
Federation promises high noon for salvage 'cowboys'.
The salvage industry has put aside its differences to try and stave off the spectre of government le...
Owen to succeed Sinclair as GRE chief.
John Sinclair has announced that he is to retire as Guardian Royal Exchange executive director for t...
Breakthrough' court decision.
The insurance industry is set to benefit from what has been called a "breakthrough victory" in the r...
Axa Life sell-off.
Axa is to sell 90% of its Luxembourg-based life insurance unit PanEuroLife to Nationwide Global Hold...
Independent loses £5m after calling off moves into life market.
Independent Insurance has abandoned plans to enter the life market, forcing it to write off £5m. Int...
CGU finance chief breathes easy after surprise profits.
CGU finance director Peter Foster has spoken of his relief at the company's nine-month operating pro...
On-the-piste cover.
Club Direct is offering its Prima Plus policyholders seven days extra winter sports cover. From 1 De...
Nikols Sedgwick looks forward to takeover by Aon.
Broking giant Aon has launched a friendly bid for leading Italian insurance and reinsurance brokerag...
Core service offers commercial key.
Should commercial claims handling be kept indoors or entrusted to outside help? Steve Banner finds out.
Brains at Kiln rethink intellectual property.
Kiln has picked its brains to come up with a new innovative range of business continuity cover, whic...
Keeping track of the law.
Where do claimants stand if they are involved in an accident with an uninsured driver? Ken Cannar looks to Europe for legal guidance.
BCWA back at school.
A BCWA Healthcare policy gives independent school pupils in-patient, day-patient, out-patient treatm...
Stokholm's Zurich job.
President and chief executive of Zurich Denmark, Gunnar Stokholm, will become the head of corporate ...
Store denies rumours.
Sainsbury's has denied it is about to move into travel insurance - but didn't rule it out as a futur...