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Health plan to rub you up the right way.
Pensioners crippled by painful corns or young couples stiff and in need of a massage will be able to...
Announcing another statement.
It is getting difficult to keep up with the barrage of government announcements about the future sha...
Canadians buy Hambro for £86m.
Months of speculation over the future of Hambro Insurance Services have ended with the announcement ...
Appointment at Lombard General.
Graham Hooper has joined Lombard General Insurance as marine cargo underwriter. He has 12 years e...
King trial: false signing.
One of the witnesses in the second trial of US boxing promoter Don King for alleged insurance fraud ...
Data protection guide.
Avon has published a data protection leaflet aimed at giving brokers general advice and guidelines a...
Birth of a dream scheme.
I was interested to see Henry Harris' letter (Standing up for loss assessors, PM, 23 April, p16), an...
Appointment at Kennedys.
Kennedys has promoted four assistant solicitors to partners. Nina Gaston qualified as a solicitor in...
Appointment at Independent.
Independent Insurance has made several new appointments. Janet Stansfield has been made executive ma...
Hard up over impotence.
US insurers are reviewing their position with regard to the anti-impotence pill Viagra because of it...
Policy Master intends to float on the AIM.
Insurance technology provider, Policy Master announced it intends to float on the Alternative Invest...
TIFCO staff defect to rival.
Management at TIFCO have been rocked by the shock defection of most of its sales staff and managing ...
Everybody's talking at me.
The telephone has become perhaps the most valuable business-selling tool to companies, and more insurers are exploiting its benefits through call centres. Alex Miller reports.
LAVA deal in full flow.
Life insurance administration is about to become simpler following the announcement of a business pa...
CIS enjoys business boom.
A record surplus on life assurance and pensions business of £667m, alongside a 38% rise in new life,...
World Cup firm hopes to score with strategy.
Sybase, the official software provider for this year's World Cup, has announced that it has created ...
Stage is set for industry's Oscar night.
The hundreds of entries to the 1998 British Insurance Awards have been whittled down to just 54 - wi...
Key motor law hits major delay.
A legislative logjam has delayed debate on a proposed new European Union directive designed to make ...
Alarming rise in number of computer 'muggings'.
The number of claims involving computers which have been stolen in the street has shot up by 19%, ac...
Pension for the jobless.
The self employed, a group so often ignored by many insurers, can now sign up to Standard Life's Gro...
Over-zealousness could ruin good name of fraudbusters.
This week has seen another major success in the industry's battle against organised fraud with the g...
Jobs for the girls as plentiful as those for the boys.
The past 20 years has seen a rise in jobs for women and a reduction in the number of men working.
Guardian staff to sponsor owl nest boxes.
Convinced it is a wise move, staff at the Ipswich branch of Guardian, have agreed to sponsor the con...
Mixed marks for scorecard.
The talking point at last month's US Risk and Insurance Management Society conference was the result of president Stephen Wilder's Quality Scorecard, which rated and slated insurers. Janina Clark reports.