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VSA bought by PCS.
Property & Casualty Services (PCS) has acquired claims investigation and surveillance specialists Vi...
MSF action is years overdue.
Your report about MSF crusading against deducting the basis state pension, or part of it, from occup...
Appointments at Hartley Cooper & Warner
Lloyd's guaranteeing broker HCW has appointed a new five-strong sales team to support its growth pla...
Guide to DSS benefits.
Hogg Robinson Financial Services has published its annual guide to UK Social Security contributions ...
Compliance service enjoys boom.
IFA Portfolio has confirmed that the number of companies using its compliance service has doubled to...
Caution wise on gene issue.
After the debacle of the life insurance industry's reaction to AIDS, partly driven by actuaries, it ...
What the papers say.
DAILY MAIL Boots has had the misfortune of having a television advert voted as 'worst commercial ...
EMF still mystery area.
Attempts to assess the threat of electro-magnetic fields (EMF) have been seriously hampered by a chr...
Appointment at Iron Trades.
Robert Hardy has become group chief executive of Iron Trades. He joined the company in 1996 as gener...
Staff net World Cup freebies.
As world cup fever grips the nation, a number of lucky insurance company sales staff are watching th...
IOB votes to widen scope of membership.
Brokers and intermediaries can now apply for membership of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau following ...
Eurobase joins Alliance of science.
Eurobase Systems is now a member of the Oracle Alliance to supply the UK and international insurance...
Internet security.
Equifax is understood to be joining forces with IBM to develop and market services to help ensure sa...
Lloyd's in crisis: what crisis?
Lloyd's in crisis: Is this the beginning of the end?' screamed a headline rhetorically in your editi...
Pensions champion needed in Commons'.
The future of pension provision was forced to the top of the political agenda this week as the Conse...
EMU shock on horizon.
The insurance industry has been warned to urgently review its attitude towards EMU, or face missing ...
Auto buy put into gear.
Aon Corporation has reached an agreement in principle to buy-out Auto insurance specialists. The dea...
Allstate files £1.2m lawsuit.
Allstate has filed a Federal lawsuit asking for £1.2m in damage compensation, plus additional damage...
BAT merger approval.
Following the 125th shareholders meeting of Zurich insurance company, an overwhelming majority appro...
Happy actuarial anniversary.
The Institute of Actuaries is 150 years old and it has seen many changes since its conception. Kathryn Morgan looks at the work of the institute and predicts what the future may hold for its members.
Firms should learn that euro is one EMU that will fly high.
Just how seriously do UK insurers take the arrival of European Monetary Union and the single currenc...
Appointment at ITT London & Edinburgh.
Robin Hugh has been appointed business manager of ITT L&E's commercial lines division. Based in Reig...
Benchmarking disgust dominates conference.
The PIMs conference was dominated by disgust at the government's decision to benchmark the forthcomi...
Relaunch for Portfolio.
Fine art insurers Cox Underwriting Services (CUS) is to relaunch its core home insurance package Por...