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High five for Rapidinsure.
Channel 5 television's decision to take an 8% share in new online insurer RapidInsure.co.uk in a £1m...
Top 50 motor insurers by gross premium written 1998 - amount in
Rank Company PREMIUMS Gross Market Reins...
Meningitis cases at worrying level.
Medical liability insurers have been warned about the dangers of escalating meningitis claims. Th...
Life added online.
Direct insurer Eagle Star has added life insurance to its online service, www.eaglestar.co.uk. It in...
Commentary - What a load of rubbish.
The Al-Fayed v Hamilton defamation case has focused attention on the method of disposing of waste pa...
The UK market dissected.
The 1990s saw enormous cross-border merger and acquisition activity, partly as a result of European ...
A passport a day ...
Norwich Union has launched a medical passport for children. With one in 10 children visiting the doc...
e-asy name change.
Mortgage 2000, which supplies mortgage information to intermediaries, has re-branded its sourcing sy...
Arup Associates.
A 27 metre-tall beacon can now help long-lunch insurance workers in the City of London find their wa...
Old waters, new routes.
Andrew Coutts explains why marine insurers need to be inventive to survive in the 21st century's rapidly-changing insurance climate.
Insurer to exploit new law change.
The Bank of Ireland has joined up with legal expenses insurer Greystoke Legal Services to exploit a ...
Europe tops life insurance league
The European Union has overtaken Japan to become the world's largest market for life insurance. Stati...
European life sector increases despite falling premiums.
The Comite Europeen des Assurances will reveal today that growth in European life premium volume slow...
Birmingham Midshires signs household agreement with Legal & General
Home loans provider Birmingham Midshires, a division of the Halifax Group, has agreed a five year arr...
Woollard weighs up options
Standard Life carpetbagger Fred Woollard is currently "reviewing my various options" following the in...
Budget mish-mash
Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget speech contained an interesting mish-mash of measures. Insurers an...
Marsh creates new risk division
Broker Marsh's US owner Marsh & McLennan is to set up a risk management unit for corporate clients th...
Countdown to CGNU vote has started
There are ten days to go before shareholders will vote over the proposed £18bn merger of Norwich Unio...
Hercules goes online
A new household insurance service - underwritten by Lombard - which enables homeowners to get instan...
Peers backdown over long-term care insurance
Rebel Peers have backed down over the issue of the regulation of long-term care insurance following g...
DNA testing by the autumn
The government plans to allow insurance companies to use DNA testing for underwriting purposes to ass...
Banks may be forced to sell off businesses
Banks could be forced to sell off viable parts of their business - possibly including their insurance...
Cox down on investment
Cox Insurance Holdings has reported a drop in pre-tax profits for 1999 to £15.1m from £18.3m the year...
US property casualty set for downturn
US-based property casualty insurers are set for their worst underwriting results ever, according to I...