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Alliance & Leicester to offer Legal & General products
Mortgage specialist Alliance & Leicester intends to offer Legal & General long term savings and inves...
IT's on info site.
A website catering specifically for the insurance industry and its IT partners has been launched at ...
Insurers lag behind in Direct Debit stakes.
A new report claims that the insurance industry is missing out on the benefits of customer retention...
Permanent diversifies products.
Permanent Insurance, which specialises in long-term protection policies, intends to make a greater p...
Appointment at The Bollington Group.
Macclesfield-based The Bollington Group has taken on William Coyle and Jemima Hargreaves in the comp...
One-stop e-shop opens.
Thames Valley-based commercial broker Goss & Co has teamed up with two Reading businesses to launch ...
Professional Indemnity Insurance for art dealers - For art's sake.
In the seventh of our technical briefings in association with the CII Society of Fellows, Andrew Jobson BSc, FCII analyses whether professional indemnity insurance is appropriate for art and antique dealers.
Winterthur sale.
Bermudian insurer XL Capital is to purchase Winterthur's property and casualty business for £411m ($...
Halifax sets insurance focus.
The Halifax's personal lines insurance business recorded a £16m rise in income last year to £242m, w...
New insurer ASP.
E-commerce solutions provider eNterprise Internet Services has teamed up with solutions company e-Ne...
LifeQuote signs up brokers.
General insurance and mortgage brokers are to be offered term assurance and critical illness via a n...
Appointment at Cathedral Underwriting.
John Hamblin joins the planned reinsurance underwriting team at Cathedral Syndicate 2010 at Lloyd's....
Appointment at Peoples Choice.
Peoples Choice has recruited Barry Thompson as customer sales co-ordinator. He joins the telebroker ...
Appointment at Fortis.
Hendrik Jan Eijpe has been made senior press officer at the international insurance group Fortis. He...
RSA: action needed.
Royal & Sun Alliance has stressed the need for action to be taken as the cost of liability claims co...
Appointment at Trenwick International.
Trenwick International has appointed a new property underwriter Stephen Paddison, who has many years...
Insurer supports network initiative.
Axa has become the first insurer to throw its weight behind a new internet initiative for insurers a...
2001 British Insurance Awards.
You've got to be in it to win it. The entry form for the 2001 British Insurance Awards is enclosed i...
Zurich looks to tied agents.
Zurich Personal Insurances has said it is prepared to "get involved in a dialogue" with potential ti...
ABTA vote due.
The Association of British Travel Agents is expected to submit an appeal against General Insurance S...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Adam Gittins has been appointed as the new branch manager at Ecclesiastical's Bristol and Cardiff of...
Top Scor for Inreon.
French reinsurer Scor has signed up to Inreon, the independent internet-based exchange for reinsuran...
Appeal for ATE sanity.
I was interested to note the article Definitive ruling sought (Post Magazine, 15 February, p1) and t...
Animal magic.
Vets fees vary wildly between practices and it has been suggested that pet insurance gives vets a licence to charge higher rates. While many argue that a level playing field is needed, where all pets are covered, 87% of cats and dogs remain uninsured,…