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Axa Life sell-off.
Axa is to sell 90% of its Luxembourg-based life insurance unit PanEuroLife to Nationwide Global Hold...
Independent loses £5m after calling off moves into life market.
Independent Insurance has abandoned plans to enter the life market, forcing it to write off £5m. Int...
CGU finance chief breathes easy after surprise profits.
CGU finance director Peter Foster has spoken of his relief at the company's nine-month operating pro...
On-the-piste cover.
Club Direct is offering its Prima Plus policyholders seven days extra winter sports cover. From 1 De...
Nikols Sedgwick looks forward to takeover by Aon.
Broking giant Aon has launched a friendly bid for leading Italian insurance and reinsurance brokerag...
Core service offers commercial key.
Should commercial claims handling be kept indoors or entrusted to outside help? Steve Banner finds out.
Brains at Kiln rethink intellectual property.
Kiln has picked its brains to come up with a new innovative range of business continuity cover, whic...
Keeping track of the law.
Where do claimants stand if they are involved in an accident with an uninsured driver? Ken Cannar looks to Europe for legal guidance.
BCWA back at school.
A BCWA Healthcare policy gives independent school pupils in-patient, day-patient, out-patient treatm...
Stokholm's Zurich job.
President and chief executive of Zurich Denmark, Gunnar Stokholm, will become the head of corporate ...
Store denies rumours.
Sainsbury's has denied it is about to move into travel insurance - but didn't rule it out as a futur...
Senitel UK launches package.
Software provider Senitel UK has launched a comparative quotations package for general insurance pro...
Exclusive - 'Ignore the 'net at your peril'.
Insurers have been told to look beyond Y2K and EMU and focus their IT resources towards making their...
Take and give.
The days of dishing out the readies could soon be over for insurers. Jonathan Swift looks at how claims handling now increasingly means claims replacement.
Canadian province to sue the tobacco industry.
British Columbia is the first Canadian province to sue the tobacco industry over the health costs of...
Insurers should pay for crime fight says cop.
A senior police officer urged insurers to dig deep to help the fight against organised crime. Det...
Worldly adjusting.
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Countryside Diamond edge a step closer to the complete package.
Countrywide Diamond has taken a further step towards becoming a complete solution for members' trans...
Experian signs deal.
Experian will host databases of insurance claims information for the whole industry, following the s...
Polarisation campaign.
Consumer protection groups are being enlisted in the fight to preserve the polarisation structure of...
Arnott Insurance sponsors athlete Allison Curbishley.
Sprint Queen Allison Curbishley was delighted to discover she can become a full time athlete now tha...
Stolen V&A works not insured.
The two 19th century oil sketches by John Constable worth around £800,000 which were stolen from the...
Specialist household insurance from Arnott Insurance.
Driving instructors who have made a mint out of Maureen and her ilk can now get a specialist househo...
Battling to raise cash for Romanian orphanage.
The gloves are off as Michael Lawless, Leeds branch manager of Highway Motor Policies, battles to ra...