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Percentage revision.
Following a review of the latest financial position, Price WaterhouseCooper's scheme administrator P...
CIGNA teaming can't wait to do business.
One of the world's largest providers of personal accident reinsurance has teamed up with a Lloyd's m...
Year 2000 warning.
Property loss prevention specialist Factory Mutual has warned that businesses are going to suffer pr...
AMP makes Australia's biggest takeover bid.
Australian insurer AMP, which owns British company Pearl, has shocked the antipodean market by launc...
Axa poaches ITT staff for new operation.
AXA Provincial has 'poached' three top ITT London & Edinburgh property employees to spearhead its 'P...
After-the-event covers.
After-the-event cover First Legal Indemnity has unveiled a range of 'after-the-event' litigation cos...
AIG to buy SunAm.
American International Group (AIG) has agreed to purchase SunAmerica, a leading seller of annuities,...
Government has got sums wrong over risk-pooling'.
A leading NHS Trust insurer has announced that it is "saddened" by the Health Minister Alan Milburn'...
Distribution crisis hits annuities.
Distribution channels for the vast range of variable annuity products currently on the market are dr...
Getting stuck in the web.
After a year of surfing through insurers' web sites, Richard Griffiths looks at how they have improved and gives tips to prospective site-holders.
Teamwork can beat arsonists.
The cost of arson is immense, both in human and financial terms. Glenn Miller explains how the industry is teaming up with the police and fire services to spark off a nationwide bid to foil the firebugs.
Ellis & Buckle secures NU deal.
Norwich Union has become the latest insurer to scrap its adjusting panel and sign a sole agreement -...
Got a new motor?
Iron Trades has launched a motor trade policy for businesses which specialise in mechanical repairs,...
Allstate files multi-million lawsuit.
United States medical insurer Allstate has filed two lawsuits asking for £15m from two Southern Cali...
IBRC says it knows nothing about cash injection plans.
Rumours are rife that the Insurance Brokers Registration Council is to be buoyed through its "lame d...
BIIBA leaflet causes latest skirmish in regulation war.
The bitter war of words surrounding the successor to the Insurance Brokers Registration Council has ...
Standard Life stay put.
Standard Life has issued a statement saying that it has no plans to relocate to the other side of Ha...
Luck of the Irish eludes non-life insurers.
Figures released by the Irish Insurance Federation show Irish non-life insurers suffered higher oper...
Exclusive - Internet copyright claims to rocket.
Insurers have been warned to expect an increase in the number of Internet copyright claims coming to...
Michael Meacher to deliver keynote speech at conference.
The minister for the environment Michael Meacher will deliver the keynote speech at an insurance ind...
Finding their calling.
Michael Tarte-Booth charts the history of call centres and looks at their booming prospects.
Robinson Hoggs stakes in Paymaster.
Financial services group Hogg Robinson has bought the remaining 70% stake in pensions administration...
Injury row boils over.
An angry policyholder is battling with two insurers over their refusal to settle on a personal healt...
Commentary - Ghosts in the legal machine.
A recent World in Action programme which dealt with alleged phantom litigation claims made for alarm...