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Crowded market blamed for Liberty Re shutdown.
The Liberty Mutual Group has scrapped its UK reinsurance subsidiary Liberty Re, despite spending £25...
HQ to be Worthing.
The integration of ITT London & Edinburgh and Norwich Union has stepped up a gear with the announcem...
Exclusive - Testing time for CMG.
IT Services company CMG has launched a testing device for insurers who need to develop systems which...
What the papers say.
DAILY STAR Travel insurers flew 12 randy Brits home last year because they had overdosed on Viagr...
Unethical accusation.
Mortgage providers which include compulsory insurance policies have been slammed as "unethical" by t...
Breakthrough in storm prediction.
British scientists have devised a method of predicting American hurricanes, which they claim will sa...
Diamond idea.
EDI products Countrywide Shop and Countrywide Restaurant are now available on a new business EDI-bas...
Conmen face 15 years in jail under anti-fraud law.
Washington DC City Council has unanimously approved a bill which makes insurance fraud a crime carry...
Bad adjusting practices leave fraudsters at large.
I was taken aback by the terminology employed in the reporting of Cunningham E&B's loss of the Guard...
Bonus from Friends.
Friends Provident announced its bonus declaration for 1998 this week. With-profit endowment policyho...
Darling has Field-day.
The government has declined an invitation from former welfare reform minister Frank Field to publish...
Co-op's business boost.
Co-operative Insurance saw its new life assurance, pensions and unit trust business increase by 21% ...
Legal actions: hidden minefields.
How often have we all read warnings about the increasingly litigious nature of society and how much ...
Ex-Cunningham trio prepare to go it alone.
Three former Cunningham chiefs have, this week, set up their own loss adjusting business promising t...
The artful Dodger.
Los Angeles Dodger superstar Kevin Brown might have one of the deadliest arms in the game, but as ye...
Glad to be on the 'net.
Telebroker Gladiator has launched the first website specialising in the non-standard sector of motor...
Research into bodily injury trends given the go-ahead.
The largest and most comprehensive piece of research into bodily injury trends in the UK has been gi...
Time to change direction.
Northern Star has turned its business around with the introduction of innovative new technology. Roger Lewis explains.
Jack Miller files his final story.
John (Jack) Miller, the crime reporter and insurance journalist has died at the age of 87, writes Hu...
Agency Underwriting target sailing enthusiasts.
Sailing enthusiasts have been targeted by Agency Underwriting with a new Mariner's Travel Policy. Th...
Record business levels.
Standard Life has reported record worldwide new business levels of over £3.5bn for 1998. According t...
Fire sent out the wrong smoke signals.
Contrary to your recent front page story (PM 24/31 Dec), the Haymarket Shopping Centre in Leicester ...
RSA gives boat cash to charities.
Charities were the big winners at the London Boat Show last week thanks to Royal & Sun Alliance and ...
ABI makes PASS at cash-strapped IFAs.
A loan fund of £100m has been set aside to bale out independent financial advisers in danger of goin...