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Appointment at Insurex Expo-Sure.
Event and exhibition insurance specialists Insurex Expo-Sure has promoted Anita Nimmo to the newly-c...
Prudential seeks US acquisition.
Prudential has confirmed that its US acquisition ambitions continue apace, although it has had to sc...
CRM culture shock.
Insurers will have to markedly change company cultures if they are to make any sizeable return on th...
CD buyout scuffle.
The 10p-a-share buyout offer for Claims Direct made by founders Tony Sullman and Colin Poole has rec...
Appointment at SBJ Group.
SBJ Group has made several appointments. Cliff Lambdon joins as managing director of the SBJ's North...
Irish car checks spark EU row.
Ireland could be taken to the European Court of Justice if it fails to stop random police checks on ...
Friends chooses Wipro for IT.
Friends Provident has selected information technology services provider Wipro as its software develo...
Duplication hits business.
Nine in 10 insurers measure growth in terms of policies, but admit they have no accurate figures on ...
Screentrade bought by bank.
Lloyds TSB Insurance has bought the business-to- consumer brand Screen-trade from technology company...
Esure goes live.
Esure, the Halifax-backed insurance start-up from Peter Wood, the founder of Direct Line, went live ...
Sterilisation blunder costs hospital extra - Parkinson v St James &
(Court of Appeal - 11 April 2001) The claimant conceived her fifth child after undergoing a steril...
Reg Brown agrees to place on Kiln board.
Former Lloyd's underwriter and immediate past president of the Chartered Insurance Institute Reg Bro...
Windfall rule hits insurers.
The insurance industry was landed with a multi-million-pound bill by the High Court this week in a c...
Greystoke website.
Greystoke Legal Service has launched a new membership website that will allow solicitors to download...
Insurers knock e-commerce survey.
Insurers have rebuffed findings of a survey of UK insurers carried out by e-commerce software and se...
Appointment at Genesys.
Genesys, a provider of call centre solutions for customer relationship management, has appointed Dav...
Appointment at Crutes.
Crutes has expanded its employment unit, with the appointment of Tim Smith to partner and Emma Cross...
See you in court.
With no test case to rely on, the jury was out on surveillance, following the introduction of the Human Rights Act. The watchword is prudence, with solicitors exercising common sense in its use to guarantee video evidence stands up in court, writes David…
CGNU up 42% on back of strong GI figures
CGNU today announced a 42% rise in first half profits to £977m in the six months to 30 June. It also ...
Brands net damage.
Insurers are worried they may be harming their brands by running sub-standard websites, according to...
Bank's survey builds up structural problems - Frost v James Finlay
(Chancery Division - 25 June 2001) The claimant moved her borrowing to the defendant bank, in orde...
Material losses.
Textiles firm the Worthington Group became the latest company to be affected by the collapse of Inde...
Appointment at Axa Assistance.
Heather Findlay has joined Axa Assistance as financial controller. She previously worked at Cigna Se...
Appointment at Marsh.
Charles Sandison has joined Marsh's Aberdeen offices as a risk consultant, while Patricia Douglas be...