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Appointment at Specialist Liability Services.
Liability adjusters SLS has taken on two new adjusters Ian Collie has joined at St Albans, having fo...
Appointment at Item Plus.
Item Plus Consulting, the Warrington-based financial services consultancy, has recruited Simon Coles...
Building clause comes under fire.
Casson v Ostley PJ (Court of Appeal - 29 June 2001).
Penny Black's insurance week.
Despite posting good results recently, it appears Royal & Sun Alliance chief executive Bob Mendelsoh...
Quality, claims and customers.
Two one-day conferences presented back-to-back will, together, give the claims professional a comple...
insurE-com opening.
Insurance software provider insurE-com has opened a new specialist call centre to support its broker...
Independent cornered over NI payments.
The provisional liquidator of Independent Insurance this week moved to pacify former employees conce...
Putting the roof on claims queries.
I read with interest John Elderkin's letter (see below: 'Storm damage hits the roof') concerning insu...
St Paul crash costs.
St Paul said this week it had no reason to believe the total cost to the insurance industry followin...
Gan contract ruling rests on Tai Ping error.
GAN Insurance Co v Tai Ping Insurance Co (Court of Appeal - 3 July 2001).
Zurich sell-off fails to stop negative rating
Zurich has been downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's following lower than expected earnin...
Sherwood sales falter.
Sherwood International this week announced the departure of its chief executive officer George Matth...
Awarding times for highest-flyer.
Nichola Williams, winner of the British Insurance Awards Young Achiever of the Year for 2001, took a short break from her hectic schedule to talk to Post Magazine about her progression from graduate to having personal responsibility for 25% of Zurich's…
Boots recovery plan.
Boots Insurance Services has teamed up with Inter Partner Assistance to offer its Halfords motor acc...
Appointment at Ince & Co.
Giles Adams has joined the international law practice Ince & Co. Mr Adams, who was a partner at Barl...
Appointment at The Quest Gates Partnership.
Liability and loss adjuster The Quest Gates Partnership has made two appointments. Greg Molyneaux jo...
ABI moves on asbestos rescue package.
The Association of British Insurers has finally published long-awaited details of the rescue package...
Aussie insurers will face closure.
Up to 50 Australian general insurers could be shut down, or forced into mergers, if they fail to mee...
ZFS chief backs PM campaign.
Patrick O'Sullivan, chief executive of Zurich Financial Services' UK general insurance operation, ha...
Kiln sells Link to Ockham
Kiln is to sell its Maidstone-based retail motor business, Link Insurance Services to Ockham Holdings...
Appointment at Freeth Cartwright Solicitors.
East Midlands law firm Freeth Cartwright has taken on Charles Powell as a partner based in Nottingha...
Amex strikes deal with Costco.
American Express Insurance has struck a deal with retailer Costco as it tries to expand the insuranc...
Appointment at Euler Trade Indemnity.
Euler Trade Indemnity, the UK-based credit insurer, has taken on Ian Hollyhomes as assistant directo...
Mould issue in denial.
Following last year's floods, the problem of mould is growing in the UK and mould-related damages of $30m awarded in the US are worrying insurers, warns Jeff Charlton.