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Traditional insurers take on virtual rivals.
Internet firms are eating into the £172bn annual US insurance market as traditional players spend mi...
Field v Leeds City Council.
8 December 1999 Court of Appeal In a disrepair claim involving rising damp and condensation, the ...
Marks for effort.
Rafael Villareal looks at the German insurance industry and asks whether its non-life insurers are buying their way out of liberalisation's downside.
Harris v Bolt Burdon.
2 February 2000 Court of Appeal The claimant sued the defendants for failing to issue medical n...
Tool for insurers.
Pragmatech software has unveiled a new product for the insurance sector. Called The Proposal Asse...
How to use clicks and bricks to add value.
Insurance 2000: 23 March Call Satellite Communications on 020 8699 7377; fax 020 8291 5737 to req...
Baltic plan meeting.
The Corporation of London was due to meet yesterday over Swiss Re's plans for a 180m high office bui...
£30m Olympic deal.
US insurer John Hancock has signed a new four-year deal to sponsor the Olympics - despite criticism ...
Ian Walker of Russell Jones & Walker suggests new code.
Ian Walker, partner at Russell Jones & Walker (pictured below), urged the IUA not to push for the co...
What the Papers Say.
METRO An insurance claimant came up with a wet excuse for losing his mobile phone - he dropped it...
You can make a difference.
The insurance industry has set off on the road to rehabilitation, albeit in different vehicles and v...
It could be you.
The argument about who is best suited to be a rehabilitation case manager rages on, as Simon Threadgold discovers.
Low key' pledge by Lloyd's judge.
Judge Creswell has agreed to keep proceedings 'low key' during the first week of the Jaffray litigat...
Appointment at Road Runner Insurance.
Specialist motor trade insurer Road Runner has promoted Jill Muncey from underwriting manager to ope...
Rehab in motion.
Reintra is a German rehabilitation service set up by Bavarian Re to plug the gaps in the country's social security system. David Worsfold looks at how it works.
Versata's PMI deal.
Software company Versata has signed a deal with the PMI Mortgage Insurance company to provide web-ba...
Willis targets four sectors with new product range.
Willis is launching a new line of industry-specific products through the Willis Commercial Network. ...
Slow moves at Axa.
Axa Re's likely merger with Axa Global Risks appears to have run into difficulties. Despite an annou...
ASC's new digital recording device.
Call centre managers are now able to record up to 65,000 separate conversations on a single hard dis...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
Ian Henderson has been appointed as manager of Ecclesiastical Direct Personal Lines. He joined the c...
Nazi haul inquiry.
A new panel to resolve disputes over the ownership of artwork looted by the Nazis and held by Britis...
AMP to cut 1250 jobs in UK
Australian life insurance and funds management group AMP is to cut 1250 jobs at its UK life and pensi...
Bid to end insurers' evidence dilemma.
Local authority public inquiry findings should be published under the protection of qualified privil...
Provident accelerates to £25.4m
Provident Financial, which owns Provident Insurance, Colonnade Insurance Brokers and Colonnade Direct...