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Project choice.
The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada has selected document management specialist Tower IDM ...
Benfield buys Bates.
Reinsurance and financial services group Benfield Greig is set to acquire Bates Turner Intermediarie...
Insurers welcome the end of tie-ins.
The government's decision to end compulsory mortgage tie-ins has been welcomed by insurers. Under...
St Paul to keep UK arm.
UK-based non-life insurer and reinsurer Unionamerica will continue to operate as a stand-alone opera...
Appointment at Johnstone Douglas.
John Carr has joined corporate benefit and financial planning consultants Johnstone Douglas as assoc...
Equitas landed with £94m Gulf War bill.
Equitas, the company established by Lloyd's to reinsure pre-1992 liabilities, is facing a further £9...
Firms in the dark over pensions.
Uncertainty over government pension proposals has led to a pensions planning blight, according to on...
Too yacht to handle.
Independent Insurance has designed a new package for waterfront business risks. The Waterfront Packa...
Rupert the bearer of good news for Kennedys.
City insurance solicitors Kennedys has set up a Hong Kong office following the merger of rival firms...
Zurich pins bancassurance hopes on data centre.
Zurich Financial Services is to make a play to become Europe's biggest bancassurer by forming a "wor...
Appointment at Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has made two appointments to its executive board. Rudolf Kellenberger becomes the board's d...
Appointment at The Broker Network.
Neil Worsnop has been made partnership director for The Broker Network. He joins from Eagle Star, wh...
Rehabilitation regime must be flexible.
Post Magazine and the Association of British Insurers are to be applauded for raising the awareness ...
Bland takes over.
Philip Bland, chairman of Leicester-based broker Bland Bankart, is to chair the national insurance b...
Appointment at CWA Claims Services.
CWA Claims Services has appointed two new managers. Scot Farthing joins from Crowe Insurance to beco...
RSA acts to slow rocketing fleet claims.
In response to the spiralling cost of motor fleet claims, insurer Royal & Sun Alliance has launched ...
ABI launch whiplash campaign
The Association of British Insurers has launched a campaign to halve the £1bn insurance bill caused b...
Intelligent move.
Wellington Underwriting's political risk division has signed an agreement with Hereford-based specia...
Willis buys broker.
Wills has acquired Sev Dahl's Assurancekontor, the largest independent broker in Norway which has an...
Merger creates civil law giant.
London's first 'super set' of chambers has been heralded with the announcement that two leading insu...
NU vindicated in medical no-pay case.
The insurance ombudsman has backed a decision by Norwich Union not to pay a woman's £14,000 medical ...
Claim tips off cops.
An insurance fraud arising out of an alleged seizure by pirates of a £2m yacht involved in a drug de...
Scottish Widows deny postal hiccup.
Scottish Widows this week denied that the completion of its £7bn takeover by Lloyds TSB has been hit...
A safe way to sell mortgages.
The Association of British Insurers has drawn up a 10-point plan to safeguard endowment mortgage cus...