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Appointment at Edge Ellison.
Edge Ellison has recruited three new staff to its insurance group. Dympna Campbell joins from Berrym...
Cave to be new CILA director.
The Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA) council has confirmed that its new executive direct...
NU hopes to strike gold with MIDAS.
Norwich Union has launched a customer and marketing database. The system, Marketing Information Di...
Be strict: the key to a smooth merger.
I read with interest the article on mergers and acquisitions (Merge or bust, PM, 7 Jan, p18). In ...
GRE sale will put 5000 jobs at risk.
Up to 5000 jobs could go if Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) succeeds in its £3.5bn bid for Guardian Royal...
Aviation brokers told to evolve or face extinction.
Aviation brokers have been told to evolve or face extinction. Willis Corroon Aerospace chairman Mart...
DAS' legal updates.
DAS Legal Expenses Insurance has updated its commercial legal protection product to take account of ...
BIB Underwriters offers a green fingered hand.
Darlington based BIB Underwriters has offered a green fingered hand to assist horticultural retailer...
Direct Line pulls plug on network.
Direct Line's bodyshop repair centre network experiment has failed. Two proposed sites are now no...
Appointment at Smart and Cook.
Yorkshire-based Smart and Cook has appointed leading finance strategist Ian Shay as group finance di...
Earning for learning.
More young people are opting for higher education, but they face tuition fees and loan repayments. Keith Sankey looks at the opportunities for insurers.
A question of priorities.
The reality is that we are not very close to seeing a virtual insurance market in operation.
Penny Black's insurance week.
It's been a busy week in the insurance world and while the insurance party season has yet to get und...
Extra travel cover.
The Retirement Insurance Advisory Service is to offer cover for pre-existing medical conditions with...
Feeling flexible?
Employing contract or temporary workers is a solution both for companies recovering from mergers and takeovers and for experienced managers made redundant, explains Martin Delahoyde.
Exclusive - New exam will boost adjusting.
A new qualification aimed at raising standards in the loss adjusting sector is to be launched this w...
Exclusive - Hill House Hammond opens coastal centre.
Leading broker Hill House Hammond is set to make a splash on the south coast with a new service cent...
Appointment at RL Davison & Co.
John Davies has been made a director of RL Davison & Co. Mr Davies has been with the company for sev...
Equitable Life has new pension TV advert.
Equitable Life has come out fighting for pension business with a new TV advert. The commercial, the ...
Timms plays down pensions market fears.
New pensions minister Stephen Timms last week attempted to reassure leading industry figures of the ...
Towergate gets £5m from RBS.
Towergate, an underwriting group established 18 months ago by three former executives of Economic In...
Stakeholder depends on compulsion.
The government's stakeholder pensions scheme was discussed at length at last week's Life Insurance Association's Industry Leaders' Meeting in London. Francis Higney was there to hear both sides of this controversial story.
Ward Evans expands to London.
Ward Evans has appointed an extra 22 staff to work in its recently created London office and has rev...
Exclusive - Cega blazes trail in travel sector claims outsourcing.
The Cega Group is to launch a new claims handling service which it believes is the way forward for i...