News
Money really can't buy happiness.
Insurance company directors who may have been left feeling rather poor by last week's reports that t...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny mingled with the stars this week at the opening night of the London Film Festival. Before rubb...
Appointment at Insurance Institute of Chelmsford and South-West
Gerry Mahoney is the new president of the recently-formed Insurance Institute of Chelmsford and Sout...
BIBA conference.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association 2000 conference, 'Building the New Profession', will be h...
Lincoln's deal with Sachs puts nine out of a job.
Lincoln Financial Group has appointed Goldman Sachs to manage £3bn worth of investment funds. The...
FSA outlines joint complaint procedures
The Financial Services Authority and the Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme have jointly published n...
CGU profits drop despite improved underwriting
Insurer CGU's operating profits dipped in the first nine months of the year, mainly due to lower inve...
Internet life venture
An online comparative quote and transaction service for life assurance, launched by First Global Insu...
$5.7m loss for LaSalle Re
Catastrophes have hit Bermudian reinsurer LaSalle Re hard, contributing to a $5.7m loss for the year ...
Owen tight-lipped as he quits PPP
Peter Owen, chief executive of Sun Life and Provincial Holdings' PPP Healthcare has resigned without ...
Industry moves to sign up to Rehabilitation First
Insurers, solicitors and service providers have already begun to sign up to Post Magazine's Rehabilit...
Lambert Fenchurch in takeover talks
Broker Lambert Fenchurch confirmed last night that it was in preliminary talks that could lead to a t...
Car repair industry at breaking point
The insurance industry has been called upon by a united body repair industry to respond to its claims...
Health - Healthty options from HSBC.
HSBC Bank has launched a new range of health products underwritten by insurer CGU. The trio of pl...
Appointment at The Leisure Consortium.
Janette Collier has taken up the position of underwriter of The Leisure Consortium's property accoun...
Natural disasters rock the industry.
New financial instruments, including catastrophe bonds and weather derivatives, are increasingly bei...
Blueprint to make exception the rule.
Andrew Parker explains how the rehabilitation code of best practice was put together, how the hurdle...
An unpalatable dish.
The once cosy world of credit insurance has become more complex and pressurised and looks like becoming the meat in a series of uncomfortable sandwiches. The problem, says Richard Willsher, is that most UK firms don't credit insure.
Wood appointed as government crime tsar.
Mark Wood, group chief executive of Sun Life and Provincial, will chair a new government body design...
Too slow @ present.
Insurers literally last in virtual race.
Rehabilitation ball set rolling by industry at House of Commons.
The insurance industry on Tuesday presented the case for rehabilitation to the All Party Parliamenta...
SLPH sells off Irish life business
Sun Life and Provincial Holdings is to sell its wholly-owned Irish life assurance business, consistin...
Appointment at Halifax General Insurance.
Jim Pittman has been appointed senior claims manager with Halifax General Insurance. Previously he w...
Broker unveils stakeholder range.
Broker Lambert Fenchurch has launched the first of what it claims will be a series of stakeholder pr...