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Insurers fight the PR war for clients.
With claims, the biggest single expense area, it is only right that insurers should be applying them...
Travel choice is no easy solution.
I see the long-running row about the linking of travel insurance with package holidays is brewing up...
A new deal.
Taking on board the implications of European Union membership as well as UK legislation means testing times for employers. Sarah Houston looks at how bosses can avoid the pitfalls.
Working from home.
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Chasing improvements.
Chase Technology Group is launching a company-wide process improvement initiative. The IT company us...
Click on and tee off
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Arrows targets ULR 'cowboy' claims.
Accident Assistance company '3 Arrows', has hit back angrily at recent claims by the Motoring Uninsu...
Thank God it's Friday,' say burglars.
Insurer Eagle Star has released new statistics that show burglars are at their most active on Friday...
GAN set to be sold.
Two American insurance giants have been put at the head of the list to buy the French state insurer ...
Marine helps boost Lloyd's.
Marine business has had the major hand in the Lloyd's market, which is expected to declare a profit ...
Firms hope to go places with policies.
Two travel insurers have launched new products. BUPA Travelcover has unveiled its Europe-only annu...
TOAD team up.
Insurer Touchline has teamed up with car security specialists TOAD Innovations, to advise car owners...
Swiss do Pole jump.
Swiss insurer Helvetia Patria Versiderungen has said it is to take a 20% stake in Polish general ins...
Government heading for showdown with health industry.
A row is brewing between the US government and the country's health insurers and healthcare companie...
Profits fall due to 'one-off charges'.
BAT Industries, owner of Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar, has had a drop in pre-tax profits and earning...
IPT hike: penalty on the prudent.
Tony Baker, the deputy director general of the Association of British Insurers, has slammed as doubl...
Homing in on property.
Gan Insurance has increased discounts available for terraced houses from 5% to 10% and reduced prope...
Insurance Charities Day.
Blackadder may not be renowned for his charity to Baldrick but Cunningham's Tony O'Reilly took a dif...
Sutherland puts training into AITT.
I had a chance to catch up with Hugh Sutherland of London Guildhall University the other day and hea...
Repairers on call.
Households will have access to the first national 24-hour call-out home repair and improvement servi...
Company fuel prices.
Fleet insurers may suffer as a result of Gordon Brown's decision to raise company fuel prices and Na...
Insurance Premium Tax for travel insurance increase.
Chancellor Gordon Brown left the devil in the detail as he put up the rate of Insurance Premium Tax ...
The cost of pensions clean-up.
The second phase of pensions mis-selling reviews is set to take up much more time and money than anyone at first believed. Alex Miller asks if this 'colossal task' will be enough to keep the industry from another scandal.
Adjusting back-up deal.
Collegiate Insurance Brokers and Equity Claims Management, a network of chartered loss adjusters, ha...