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Independent rise.
Independent recorded an 11% rise to £506.9m in gross written premium and 25% growth in operating pro...
Sharing and caring.
Is technology really speeding up the way we work? That, it seems depends on how we use it. For insur...
Appointment at Versata.
E-business automation specialist Versata has made Ian Osborne vice president, Europe. The appointmen...
Tapping into cybercrime.
The most dangerous predators stalking the UK insurance industry might not necessarily be foreign cor...
Appointment at Donns Solicitors.
Donns Solicitors has appointed three new partners and now believes it is the only UK law firm which ...
Man fined for asthma wheeze.
A man who fraudulently claimed on his insurance disability policy has been hit with an $800,000 (£50...
Life and Seoul.
German insurance giant Allianz has acquired a 12.5% stake in Hana Bank of Seoul. The £90m deal makes...
Broker dogged in pursuit of Highway.
Lloyd's guaranteeing broker Edgar Hamilton is determined to take Highway Motor Policies to arbitrati...
BIBA bows out of awards.
The British Insurance Brokers Association has quit its sponsorship of the Birmingham-based Insurance...
Has the demutualisation tide started to turn?
While Standard Life's rebuttal of the attempt to force it to put demutualisation to its members was ...
Tangley's claims.
Adjuster Crawford & Company has been appointed by NFU Mutual to deal with the claim arising from the...
Aegon puts TIFCO up for sale.
The world's biggest global premium finance provider has been put up for sale by its owners. Dutch in...
Aon thinks big on back of office opening.
Aon is planning to expand in Scotland on the back of a new Edinburgh office and a possible acquisiti...
XL to form new company.
Worldwide insurer and reinsurer XL Capital is to form a new subsidiary holding company to oversee th...
£6bn bid for Aetna.
Troubled US health insurer Aetna is the subject of an unsolicited $10.3bn (£6.2bn) takeover bid. ...
SGS finding way with Compass.
Intentional verification organisation SGS has bought Compass Insurance. The Coventry-based operat...
A closed door policy?
Simon Threadgold asks if the Access to Justice Act is having the opposite effect to which it was intended.
Appointment at Miller Pycraft.
Tony Griggs has joined Miller Pycraft to focus on its quality control. Previously he was manager ...
Builders' poor deal on pay.
Further to your recent article (Company lays foundations for builders to get cash, Post Magazine 24 ...
Reinsurers unaware of law rules threat.
Reinsurers involved in lengthy run-off proceedings could find themselves unfairly penalised by the E...
Busy filing their mails.
... and organising presentations, taking telephone calls - often in different languages - and doing their bit to keep a company running like clockwork. This is the role of the personal assistant in the 21st century, as Marcus Alcock discovers.
Wholesale @ new portal.
A new Internet insurance portal will be launched next month, offering access to quotes online as a s...
Censure and fine for Clowes.
City broker TL Clowes and Company has been censured and fined £25,000 by Lloyd's for acts of miscond...
Fenchurch ruling.
Fenchurch Insurance Brokers has been stung by further claims of misconduct - months after being fine...