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We won't penalise GPs for health cover': CGU.
Critical health insurers have slammed proposals by a rival to exclude or weight premiums against doc...
Appointment at Bacon & Woodrow.
Allan Kaufman has been made head of Bacon & Woodrow's insurance division. Mr Kaufman is an Honora...
Ratings - Reinsurers to have ratings lowered.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's is to lower the financial strength ratings of several reinsurers fol...
TLO-online unveiled by Lloyd's.
Lloyd's syndicate 609 has launched a website for the purchase of total loss only reinsurance. The...
The buck stops where?
Janet Edey outlines developments in legislation that corporate risk managers need to keep track of and points to cover available in case things go wrong.
Appointment at Aon Group Claims Consultancy.
Mike Palmer has been made business development director of Aon Group Claims Consultancy....
Carver v Hammersmith & Queen Charlotte's Special Health Authority
28 February 2000 A mother brought a claim for the wrongful birth of her Downs Syndrome child. ...
The name is Oxford.
The broker-only syndicate set up by ex-Link underwriter George Higginson and former Wellington under...
Interest in CGU.
Up to 10 US companies are reported to be interested in acquiring CGU's US property and casualty oper...
IRM reviews exams.
The Institute of Risk Management is reviewing its examination structure and considering options for i...
EU legal hotline.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has teamed up with AIG Europe and Anderson Legal to offer a telephone adv...
Huge leap' for claims.
Royal & Sun Alliance and software specialist The Innovation Group have teamed up to deliver a new so...
Use your vote plea.
Standard Life has sent a document to 30,000 independent financial advisers to encourage their custom...
Judge delivers costs blow.
Insurers cannot scrutinise the costs and fees of the defendant law firms they use without the consen...
Rehab takes to the road.
The insurance industry is to take to the road to spread the word on rehabilitation to the legal prof...
MMA-rvellous.
Broker-only insurer, MMA Insurance, previously Norman, has recorded a 25.5% increase in gross premiu...
Working on risk.
You may think Lloyd's and the concept of risk strategy would make unlikely bedfellows, but Marcus Alcock discovers that the Market Risk Unit is a vital cog in the Lloyd's wheel and is continually going from strength to strength.
Widows names its new venture
Scottish Widow's new asset management business - to become effective on 30 June - is to be called Sc...
So far, so good.
Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society has signed up 120 advisers in the three months since it launched...
And the nominations are ...
It was make-your-mind-up time for the judges of this year's British Insurance Awards last week, when they whittled down over 300 entries to the final shortlists. David Worsfold describes a day of head-scratching deliberation.
AA mortgage cover.
The AA has launched a mortgage protection plan that insures people against failing to meet repayment...
RSA to launch fraud units.
Royal & Sun Alliance is to roll out dedicated fraud units in its UK household claims centres to comb...
Baltic Exchange will host IT Direct Expo 2000.
Tomorrow the Baltic Exchange will host IT Direct Expo 2000, where IT suppliers to Lloyd's and Baltic...
CGU announce participation in the BT Global Challenge yacht race.
CGU announced its participation in the BT Global Challenge yacht race on Monday with the christening...