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St Paul picks up PI from NU.
Norwich Union has sold the IFA professional indemnity portfolio it acquired with the purchase of Lon...
HSBC's euro guide.
Following the launch of the euro this week, HSBC has launched a free 60-page guide to carrying out b...
SIF launches survey on Y2K problems.
The Solicitors Indemnity Fund has embarked upon a fact-finding mission to discover its vulnerability...
Euro countdown.
Eric Mawer considers the impact of the euro on the insurance industry and what companies should be doing.
Lord Vestey accepts early Christmas present.
Lord Vestey, the Lord Prior of the Order of St John Ambulance, is pictured accepting an early Christ...
Insurers are ready for the euro.
Despite the uncertainty of the UK's position over economic and monetary union, insurers are taking s...
PI insurers warn of 20% rates hike.
Professional indemnity insurers could be forced to hike up rates by 20% if surveyors take on more li...
End is nigh for firm.
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has presented a petition in the High Court of Justice ...
November: when the sun had got his rain hat on.
November was uncharacteristically sunny according to Cunningham Ellis & Buckle's monthly Wethernet r...
When festive over-indulgence was wishful thinking.
Come the new year, gyms up and down the land will be full of people trying to burn off the festive f...
IFA's swot up on Phase 2.
Independent financial advisers rushed to discover how to prepare themselves to cope with the fallout...
AMP beats off opposition to snap up NPI.
Australian insurance group AMP has strengthened its position in the UK life market by acquiring NPI ...
Dawn of a new era.
Everyone's talking about EMU, but how many are preparing for it? Cyril Lewis explores the reasons why so many UK insurers are reluctant to prepare for the euro.
The euro, Y2K, mergers - 1999 will be quite a year.
Will 1998 go down as the seminal year in the radical re-structuring of the UK insurance industry, or...
Ex-ITT L&E employees to staff new Axa property centre.
Axa has opened a dedicated property insurance centre which will be staffed by former ITT London & Ed...
Industry rallies against newspaper article.
Insurers and loss adjusters have reacted angrily to a newspaper report that the brief of claims mana...
What the papers say.
EVENING STANDARD Motorists duly got an early Christmas present after vital repair work on the Rot...
Clever packaging can't hide a poor pensions present.
The proposals for overhauling pensions provisions have received a rather mixed press, and rightly so...
Scoop on the National Lottery.
Lucky Royal & SunAlliance staff got an unexpected Christmas bonus after scooping £77,425 on the Nati...
Scottish Widows embarks on customer fact-finding mission.
Scottish Widows is to utilise the latest technology to learn more about its two million customers an...
Midlands shopping centre gutted.
Loss adjusters and fire investigators were still trying to discover the cause of a blaze this week w...
Annual match against Guardian Insurance.
Some things never change. Post Magazine played its annual match against Guardian Insurance recently ...
Guardian puts wheels on Kwik Fit household deal.
Guardian Insurance and Kwik Fit have strengthened their ties with the signing of a new deal which wi...
Farrant to quit FSA.
Richard Farrant is to leave his post as operating officer of the Financial Services Authority in Jan...