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Appointment at Munters.
Denice Honour has been promoted by Munters from marketing executive to customer relations manager....
Good and bad news for Zurich.
Zurich Financial Services has posted mixed results for the first half of 1999. The Zurich-based g...
Crash payout cut.
A $7bn (£4bn) award against vehicle manufacturer General Motors has been reduced to $1.2bn (£700m). ...
Burglar's eyeview.
The Millennium Mapping Company claims its airborne photographic study of the UK will help risk asses...
Appointment at Jardine Lloyd Thompson.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Corporate Risks has appointed Alan Percival as its regional managing director...
Insurers insist they're safe from the hackers.
The insurance industry this week moved to affirm the integrity of its e-commerce security systems fo...
Sand's UK launch.
Software company Sand Technology Systems has launched Nucleus, a data warehousing system for the ins...
New editor for Post.
The new editor of Post Magazine is Anthony Gould. He has been deputy editor since January and was fo...
Ford Loft sold.
Layton Blackham has acquired the Chelmsford-based broker the Ford Loft Group, which will continue to...
Taking the fight to the fraudsters - Fraud update.
Bookings are rolling in for Post Magazine's Insurance Fraud Update on 14 October. This aims to br...
Life in the slow lane.
The life insurance sector is languishing in implementing e-commerce solutions. So states a report ca...
Appointment at Axa.
Amanda Fisher has been made regional development director for Axa's north region. She joins the comp...
Body of evidence.
The second UK Bodily Injury Survey, which looks at claims trends and the causes behind them, is out ...
Protocol the Putsmans way.
West Midlands-based law firm Putsmans has set up a new set of protocol services to help insurers mee...
Brands.
Fifty years ago, the thorny question of how to promote individual insurance company brands and the i...
The Berlin call.
With casualty figures expected to be high and rates still soft, delegates attending this weekend's International Union of Marine Insurance conference are being asked to arrive with ideas of how to refocus their business. Alex Broad reports.
Reinsurance market could be halved.
The global reinsurance market could be halved by the trend for cedants to move away from quota share...
Moneymen want statutory mortgage rules.
Most banks and building societies favour statutory regulation of the mortgage market, a survey shows...
Great fire of WC2.
A massive fire on the doorstep of Post Magazine last week is likely to result in one of the largest ...
China looks after its own.
China is planning to change the way it calculates insurers' claims paying ability in an attempt to b...
Douglas Cox Tyrie Insurance Brokers.
Douglas Cox Tyrie Insurance Brokers has helped put sail to the 15-year-old record for the quickest c...
Planned MBO has Admiral thinking big.
Direct motor insurer Admiral will enter new insurance markets if plans for a management buyout are g...
Radon protection.
The National Radiological Protection Board is to help health and safety managers cut down the risk o...
Appointment at Bond Pearce.
David Turner has been made a partner with the Exeter-based insurance team of law firm Bond Pearce. H...