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IFA's new funds.
Aitchinson & Colegrave, Scotland's largest private independent financial adviser, has launched a fun...
When poisoning was a bitter pill for insurers.
"Poisoning and Life Assurance" was the heading at the top of page 2 of Post Magazine of Saturday 7 October 1848. The article reflected the growing concern that the industry was the subject of a rash of suspicious claims.
Marsh Mac deal with Sedgwick on the rocks.
The US Federal Trade Commission has swooped to scupper Marsh & McLennan's proposed takeover of the S...
Fears come true as Treasury sinks CAT claws into ISAs.
Rumours that the government might back down on its proposed benchmarks for its new Individual Saving...
Holocaust cash freed.
From 1 January next year, Holocaust victims and their families living in California will be entitled...
Wellington results.
Wellington Underwriting announced its penultimate half year results on Monday. The company, which is...
Appointment at Berryman Davies Lavery.
Stephen Cornfield has joined BDL solicitors from Dibb Lupton Allsop in Manchester. He will be workin...
Swire Blanch sold in one-off deal.
Lambert Fenchurch has acquired Swire Blanch in a deal described as 'one-off' and denied the move was...
From zero to insurance heroes.
The Government could become a hero to the insurance world if its plans to crack down on crime are ef...
Motor insurance losses reached £1.2bn in 1997.
Motor insurance losses in the UK reached record levels of £1.2bn last year, matching the figures of ...
Buy-back completed.
Topdanmark has issued an announcement to the Copenhagen Stock Exchange to say it has completed the s...
Appointment at Bartlett & Company.
Richard Pedley has been promoted to marine insurance manager with Leeds-based broker Bartlett & Comp...
One day all web sites will be like this'.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Exclusive - Fishers Group completes sweeping re-branding.
The Fishers Group has announced it has changed its brand name to Miller Fisher Group following six m...
Royal & SunAlliance expands in the far east.
Royal & SunAlliance is expanding its operations in the far eastern market. The leading international...
Lincoln Financial Group to sponsor rugby league test series.
Financial services provider Lincoln Financial Group has converted a major deal after announcing it w...
Drivers shop around.
The AA has revealed motorists are looking to an increasing number of companies for quotes each renew...
Nine insurers develop the Gemini 2 package.
Nine 'top league' insurers have come together to provide brokers with a system which will allow them...
Sedgwick/IBM teaming.
Sedgwick and IBM have teamed up to develop what is believed to be the first consulting and risk tran...
Balance is needed amid the merger-mania.
There seems no end to the helter-skelter consolidation in the insurance industry: its insurers one w...
Appointment at O'Halloran & Co.
Lincoln-based brokers O'Halloran & Co has made three appointments. Steve Toole joins from Christian ...
Turning the world of loss adjusting upside down.
As mergers and acquisitions become more frequent among loss adjusters, Jonathan Guy and Francis Higney asks what the future may hold for both UK companies and loss adjusters worldwide.
Taylor will need to be at his Max for broker debate.
I hope Max Taylor is on good form on Friday when he chairs the emergency session on broker regulatio...
Softlab makes info read, all right and blue.
Insurers trying to keep on top of fast moving information systems are able to do so more easily foll...