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When is a game not a game?
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Life industry welcomes strong-arm tactics.
As this week's round up of financial results in the insurance sector clearly shows, the UK's life se...
Britain's old railways.
A broker has steamed in to help Britain's old railways get on track with comprehensive insurance cov...
Tornado hits Salt Lake City.
A car sits abandoned among the debris left behind by a tornado which ripped through the heart of Sal...
Broker Rolls with it.
Alan and Thompson Brokers has joined forces with Independent Insurance to wheel out a new motor insu...
Iron Trades on track for Top 10.
Iron Trades appears to be steering a steady course in its bid to become one of the top 10 UK general...
LPC's new system.
The London Processing Centre has introduced a central settlement system that allows companies and br...
E-broking debut.
Abbey Legal Protection has launched what it claims is the industry's first Internet e-broking servic...
Goods, not gold.
Replacing goods rather than granting cash payments is fast gaining popularity with personal claims insurers. Will the commercial sector soon follow suit? asks Simon Threadgold.
Insurers clash after law gets its first test.
A groundbreaking High Court judgment has left two insurance companies at loggerheads. Bernadone v...
Internet sales are next for Direct Line.
Leading motor insurer Direct Line is set to motor into the e-commerce market in the next few weeks. ...
Fly-drive holidays.
Chubb Direct has launched a product to protect tourists taking fly-drive holidays to the US and Cana...
GIO pulls out of reinsurance after disastrous year.
GIO Australia Holdings is to pull the plug on its reinsurance operation after posting record losses ...
Emerald Isle chosen to bring in the green stuff.
The Co-operators General Insurance Company of Canada has formed a reinsurance arm and based it in Ir...
Not all that it seems.
I am writing regarding Penny Black's comment about the attendance of 29 at the football match betwee...
Appointment at CMG.
European IT services group CMG has appointed William Watling as project director in its life assuran...
Hughes and Company.
Northern Irish broking giant Hughes and Company has moved into a new £2m custom-built headquarters i...
How would you like your stake?
The answer is well-done if your talking about stakeholder pensions, because, as Francis Higney reports, any half-baked pension provision could only mean another radical shake-up in a few years.
Salvage update.
A new form of compensation for salvage firms involved in environmental damage came into effect this ...
Lords decide bank not guilty of discrimination.
A woman worked for Midland Bank from 2 July 1979. She worked full-time until taking maternity leave....
Nordic merger.
Skandia has confirmed it is to ditch its Nordic non-life companies and merge them with those of othe...
Exclusive - Picture this: claims costs cut in the blink of a shutter.
The five million motorists involved in damage-only collisions every year in the UK are to be encoura...
How an insurer helped move old house of God in new mysterious ways.
I would like to recognise the outstanding way that my insurance company, NIG Skandia, and the adjust...
Brokers have edge on direct.
Brokers are beginning to win the battle against direct writers in the motor market, says market anal...