News
French hold fort.
Despite fierce competition, members of the French Association of Reinsurers (Association des Reassur...
Takeover cover.
Royal Bank of Scotland has introduced insurance policies to cover the cost of fighting hostile takeo...
Preventing the preventable.
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Reporter wins pension fight.
Ms T was employed as a reporter on the Derby Daily Telegraph. After being absent from work through...
Appointment at Browne Jacobson.
Gay Wilder, who was head of health litigation at Beachcroft Stanleys before its recent merger with W...
Insurers warned to 'change goals'.
The Institute of Actuaries has warned insurers that they will run into trouble if they continue offe...
Plan put into action.
Motability Finance has restructured its vehicle maintenance and buy-back arrangements following two ...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL A Department of Trade and Industry report has revealed how carelessly pulling on a pai...
New partner for Eureko.
Maaf Assurances of France and Eureko - a European alliance of seven financial services and insurance...
Smaller brokers will be 'ethnically cleansed'.
A cabal of large and arrogant organisations will "ethnically cleanse" the small independent broker s...
Appointment at Davies Lavery Solicitors.
Catherine May has joined Davies Lavery as a partner specialising in insurance litigation. She will b...
FSA to be rated.
Chief executives and heads of compliance are to be asked to review the current performance of the Fi...
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Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Jonathan Wren closes offices.
Recruitment consultant Jonathan Wren has announced it is to close its four regional offices. The ...
Body of evidence.
Structured personal injury payments are commonplace in the US but have so far failed to make any major inroads in the UK. Neil Harris finds out why.
Six considered for privatisation.
The Egyptian government is considering privatising as many as six insurance companies, economic advi...
Sponsorship by equestrian insurer QBE.
Equestrian insurer QBE has galloped to the rescue of show jumping legend Paul Schockenmohle and youn...
Ombudsman resolves more cases, faster.
Complaints to the Invest-ment Ombudsman rose by a third over the last year. Peter Dean, in his th...
Staff on the move.
Staff at the Royal Exchange building, home to Guardian Insurance for 200 years, are set to be rehous...
Appointment at Hextall Erskine.
Jane Beacham has been made a partner at Hextall Erskine. She joined the firm in 1992 and specialises...
Hard to crack.
Companies from a variety of sectors are queuing up at insurers' doors to offer their services as outsourcers. The trouble is, their enthusiasm is often not shared, or understood, by the insurance firms.
Insurance & Law Debate.
THE MOTION: "At the turn of the 20th Century insurance remains as much a 'contract upon speculati...
Hospital fund loses appeal.
The Manchester and Salford Hospital Saturday Fund was established towards the end of the 19th centur...
Bravo for Alpha.
Lincoln has purchased Marlborough Stirling's Alpha calculations engine. The system will provide c...