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Travel agents find loophole.
Despite moves to outlaw tied insurance deals, holidaymakers could still be burnt when buying cover, ...
Plenty of milage in AA's website.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Sun Life boosts policies.
Sun Life of Canada has improved the terms of the policies issued by Confederation Life between 1994 ...
ABI must take lead in disaster response.
The analysis of the press coverage of the recent floods makes interesting reading (see p18). The ...
Back to the '80s for Sun Alliance.
I see Bob Mendelsohn has been shaking up the head office bag again at Royal Sun Alliance, and there ...
Issues deserved more in-depth treatment.
The lack of detail in Kevin Pratt's article about long-term policies (Going the distance, PM, 12 Nov...
GISC unveils blueprint for regulation.
The General Insurance Standards Council unveiled its consultative document on general insurance regu...
High expectations.
Following an exclusive survey of claims managers by Post Magazine in association with solicitors Hextall Erskine, a number of interested parties assess the results.
Zurich claims medical first.
Zurich Life has launched what it claims to be the first critical illness policy which incorporates s...
Balancing for satisfaction.
In the non-stop world of claims handling, striking a balance between all parties offers scope for en...
Personal injury claims to rocket.
The insurance industry has been told to expect millions of pounds worth of backlogged personal injur...
Of course millennium problems are forseeable.
I read Ian Drewer's attack on the Association of British Insurers' exclusions with a certain degree ...
A match made in heaven?
Francis Higney interrupted Cunningham Ellis & Buckle's honeymoon celebrations to talk to Gerry Loughney and Andrew Lund about the new company's plans.
Avon rewards Damien.
Ex-England football legend Frank Worthington attended the recent Blackburn Rovers versus Arsenal mat...
US Bogged down by age-old regulation wrangles.
The issue of Post Magazine for 19 November 1898 contained plenty of news from the United States with...
Zero tolerance approach needed for motor fraud.
The insurance industry has to take a zero tolerance approach to motor fraud, said Richard Fowler, sp...
Kelsh bows out with blast at 'threat' posed by regulation.
Insurance Brokers' Registration Council founder member Michael Kelsh announced his retirement from t...
Pianist's 'dodgy notes'.
Veteran rock 'n' roll musician Billy Preston has been indicted by a Californian court on a £600,000 ...
Dutch courage over Y2K.
While insurers in the UK are still stubbornly holding the line on Year 2000 exclusions, on the Conti...
Scorching times to come?
Product liability claims may not be as popular in Europe as they are in the US, where lawyers go all-out to find cases, but the signs are that they soon could be, says Christopher Hodges.
Lifetime Lloyd's ban.
A woman found guilty of forgery in the Lloyd's market has been banned for life - the first time a fe...
Now turn talk into action.
There is no doubt that the insurance industry is determined to face up to the challenge of fighting ...
Cash splash after buy.
Liverpool Victoria has paid over £1m for a 'Millennium GS795' processor to manage an estimated 250,0...
To demutualise or not to demutualise.
The recent announcement by National Provident Institution that it intends to demutualise and put its...