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Swiss Re chair.
Swiss Re has sponsored a professorship at the University of Nottingham Business School. The funding ...
Customers come first.
Technological advances are affecting the vehicle repair business more than almost any other area of the industry. Andrew Newman discovers how customers and companies are benefiting.
What the Papers Say.
FINANCIAL TIMES Computer rage has joined road rage, air rage, and trolley rage as one of the side...
Crawford widens centres operation.
Loss adjuster Crawford-THG is to open three new service centres by the end of the summer. The ope...
Coyle Hamilton wants more new business.
International Lloyd's brokers Coyle Hamilton has bought a "substantial" book of business from London...
IFAs fear for their future.
Trade bodies are ignoring the plight of independent financial advisers as the introduction of stakeh...
Bright lights, big cities.
Business has boomed in Leeds and Bradford in recent years, with many insurance companies choosing to call them home. Simon Threadgold visits our friends in the north.
Special privileges.
Motorists are being encouraged to take a refresher course to eliminate silly mistakes and so drive d...
Why NHS chose a prescription for success.
I would like to comment on the implication in Terry Simister's letter ('Standards which didn't make ...
Schools plan to count on pupils.
The Financial Services Authority plans to turn today's school children into a generation of informed...
Impact Plus Cup Final.
Co-op centre forward Nick Welton blasts the ball goalward during his team's triumph in the Impact Pl...
Council calls time on crime.
Manchester has become the first city council to curb crime against empty properties using an inno-va...
Carole Nash bucks trend.
Motorcycle insurance specialist Carole Nash this week bucked the trend for pumping up premiums with ...
Appointment at Miller & Pycraft & Arnold.
Richard Little has been made director of the liability division at Miller & Pycraft & Arnold. He wil...
Appointment at James Chapman & Co.
Christopher Murray has joined Manchester law firm James Chapman & Co. Previously he was a partner wi...
Appointment at Davies Arnold Cooper.
Catherine May has joined Davies Lavery as a pertner specialising in insurance litigation. She is par...
Underwriting pilot.
Winterthur Life is piloting an automated underwriting system which could dramatically speed up polic...
Not ready for EMU.
Just over 70% of insurers across the EU have yet to complete their EMU plans, according to recent re...
UK fires figures take another fall.
The number of fires in the UK has fallen for the third year in succession, according to latest Home ...
Stakeholder on solid ground.
The government's stakeholder pension plans received a massive boost with the news that one scheme is...
Minister's warning.
Pensions minister Stephen Timms hammered out a warning to the insurance industry that it must ensure...
Champers all round for this site.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Travellers' checks.
The vast choice of travel insurance products now available can be bewildering for the public. David Fanning finds out what consumers need to know, and also what the insurers need to know about their customers.
AIIB roadshow.
The next Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers roadshow will be at Cardiff's Forte Pos...