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PMS in £45m move.
Policy Management Systems is investing £45m to relocate to a custom-built site in Chertsey designed ...
Internet prediction.
Brokers and underwriters at the recent 'Liability on the Internet' conference were told by Lloyd's u...
Search for partners.
Repair network Acoat Bodyshop Services hopes to link up with partners in Germany, France, Holland an...
CILA is almost broke: but it's 'not a disaster'.
The Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters is nearly broke with only £84,000 in its general fund afte...
Appointment at Axa Insurance.
Axa Insurance has appointed Maxine Longmuir to manage its four-year sponsorship of the FA Cup. She h...
BUPA - healthy outlook.
BUPA, the healthcare provider, has reported a pre-tax surplus of £50m for 1998, a fall of almost 10%...
Reviving public faith.
Dr Adrian Bull argues that by developing their own networks of hospitals, private medical insurers are doing their bit to reassure patients that private healthcare is safe, effective and reliable.
The British Insurance Awards 1999 - Time's up.
The deadline for entering the 1999 British Insurance Awards is tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm. If you stil...
Natwest Insurance Services offers savings.
Natwest Insurance Services is aiming to make its travel insurance more accessible to customers by of...
Getting a handle on IT.
Insurers may have woken up to the benefits of call centres, but many are not making the most of the technology. Jonathan Swift looks at the changes ringing through the sector.
Appointment at CMG.
Richard Preston has been recruited as a management consultant for the insurance division of European...
Appointment at Mondial Assistance.
Janine Atkins has been made national sales manager with Mondial Assistance. She has been promoted...
IUA gets it right for information.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Pensions set for overhaul.
The pension market is heading for a 'radical' upheaval as it tries to meet stakeholder standards, ac...
Paddick hits out at GISC.
Insurers will have a stranglehold over brokers and intermediaries if the General Insurance Standards...
Disputes still rising.
After taking the helm in stormy times, Irish Insurance Ombudsman Caroline Gill has seen an increase in the number of cases. She tells Veronica Cowan about the past few months and future areas of concern.
Exposure to natural catastrophies increasing.
With the insurance industry's exposure to natural catastrophes constantly increasing, insurance info...
RIMS voices its rate fears.
The good times for risk managers could soon be over, warned Jim Blinn, director of risk management c...
Rating reaffirmed.
Japan's Sumitomo Life has had its 'A-' rating reaffirmed by international rating agency Fitch IBCA -...
They're in the money.
The insurance industry was well represented in this years Rich List with 18 industry workers featuri...
Appointment at Norwich Union.
Three senior appointments have been made in the finance team of Norwich Union. Bridget McIntyre beco...
Euro insurers struggle to match world standards.
The European insurance sector struggled to match the performance of the market as a whole during the...
ABI should look directly into the eclipse.
Why is it that our continental cousins always seem to be one step ahead of us in some spheres? The l...
Exclusive - 'Give us a break on IPT': brokers.
Furious travel brokers, fed up with being treated as "unpaid tax collectors", are demanding fair tre...