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Advantage to NIG.
NIG Skandia's screen based home product 'Advantage' is now available on all major software systems f...
Adam puts his foot down in driving rain.
Despite dramatically spinning off into gravel on a dangerously rain-soaked Silverstone track, the Ev...
United States ahead of Europe with EMU preparations.
More American businesses are ready for the implementation of the EMU than European ones. The resu...
Preferential rates for home buyers.
Select & Protect has offered preferential insurance cover with premium rates to people buying homes ...
Feeling hot, hot, hot we were not, not not.
Weather statistics released for July.
Fire not foul.
In an article on the front page of last week's edition (PM, 13 August) with regard to the fire at th...
MetLife may go public.
MetLife is considering moving from being a mutual life insurer to going public, and has signed Credi...
Hot air balloon festival.
A group of West Country brokers were given a lift with a difference from insurer Independent when th...
Risk pooling is antidote to 2000 exclusion problems.
As the days tick by in the countdown to the millennium, the concerns about the effects of the widesp...
We are masters of disasters.
I was surprised to read that Imbach RAG claims disaster line is the only one-stop shop in the UK. ...
Travel web site.
Columbus Direct Travel Insurance has announced it expects to complete its website before the end of ...
When Dan became an agriculture cropper.
t is worth pointing out that Bill Clinton is not the first American politician to be caught in a sca...
Hannover profits swell.
Record results last year saw Hannover Re's net profit climb 13.4% to just over £34m. The Group's gro...
Willis poised to break into India's reinsurance market.
The Willis Corroon Group is set to become the first major international broker to break into the gro...
Independent buoyant on back of impressive results.
Independent insurance chief executive Michael Bright said the company was looking forward to a wealt...
Weather claims cost CGU £233m.
Storms buffeted the interim figures for newly-merged insurer CGU, with its severe weather claims cos...
Barclays in bid to jump start motor.
Barclays has declared it will be able to guarantee cheaper car renewal premiums for years due to the...
Exclusive - 'We're staying put": Eagle Star.
Eagle Star has moved quickly to reassure a new major commercial policyholder over fears the insurer'...
Tricky question of what's the damage.
In deciding what sum was required to compensate a tenant for the distress and inconvenience experien...
Glass's goes for £126m.
Glass's has been bought out for £126m by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated (Hicks Muse). The pr...
Abbey Life and kicking.
Computer Sciences Corporation has announced that Abbey Life has gone live with the first phase of a ...
AIMS pet project.
Specialist animal insurer AIMS has launched a new policy 'It shouldn't happen to a Pet'. For an annu...
How CFAs will affect insurers.
The Lord Chancellor has proposed that conditional fee agreements (CFAs) should replace Legal Aid, th...
Exclusive - Experian homes in on domestic perils.
Information Solutions provider Experian is to launch what it claims to be the first 'comprehensive d...