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Help the Aged Hall of Fame Award.
Veteran fund raiser Sir Jimmy Saville has become the latest recipient of the Help the Aged Hall of F...
Multiassistance signs up Barclays.
Claims management and repair company Multiassistance has signed a new client, Barclays Merchant Serv...
Tiger site that earns its stripes.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
June date set for GAN.
The privatisation of giant French insurer GAN is set to go ahead at the end of June. The French gove...
Alarmist maybe, but no axe to grind.
I was delighted to see that Elizabeth Mullins of the Solicitors' Indemnity Fund is advising members ...
Risk management tools.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor announced last week that Lloyd's is considering developing its own new r...
Reinsurance cover obtained.
Mitsui Marine and Fire has obtained a $30m (£18.8m) reinsurance cover backed by event-linked swap tr...
Sponsorship announced.
Two London market insurers have announced sponsorship deals with two top-class horsewomen this week....
Heads he wins, insurers lose.
Insurers have been warned that a test case in Glasgow involving a former Celtic soccer star "may ope...
R&SA's Belgian buy.
Royal & SunAlliance have acquired Belgian underwriting agency J Haenecour which has offices in Bruss...
Natwest Insurance branded 'a disgrace' by broker.
A Bradford-based broker has hit out at Natwest Insurance Services, accusing it of using "extreme and...
Star in their eyes.
Northern Star has decided to become a full member of Polaris, after concluding that the number of ne...
How the weather blew hot and cold during March.
Despite a cold start with frosts in England and Wales and blizzards over the Scottish Highlands, Mar...
Slow claims meet their Waterloo thanks to Wellington link-up.
Lloyd's insurance group Wellington has come up with a new way in which to speed its claims for custo...
Standing up for loss assessors.
I write after reading Derek Armstrong's letter (Let adjusters repair damage of assessors, PM, 9 Apri...
Flood teams give it some welly.
Insurers kept their heads when all about them were losing theirs during the Easter floods. Subsequently, and despite press reports, they emerged as the heroes and not the villains of the drama. Alex Miller reports.
As good as new.
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Sydney hosts seminar.
The growing global environment for the insurance industry is the subject of a seminar to be held in ...
Co-operation is key.
Widespread co-operation across the entire insurance industry is essential if the backlog of late ins...
Guardian closure.
Guardian Insurance is closing down it's regional office in Preston, as part of it's on-going geograp...
NU warns on pensions deadline miss.
Norwich Union is racing to complete its pensions review, with only 0.3% of cases yet to be completed...
Union appeals to insurers: 'Talk to us about mergers'.
Blue Collar representative MSF has urged leading insurers to help find a solution to keep employees ...
Avon Insurance sponsors two police vehicles.
Stratford based Avon Insurance, is making sure it stays on the good side of the law by continuing it...
Jersey motor rate cuts.
The New Jersey Senate has passed a motor insurance reform bill which includes a mandated 15% cut in ...