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If you attend one insurance conference next year, make sure its
If there is one insurance conference you attend next year it has to be Insurance '99, the strategic ...
Final frontier of cover.
Industrial Insurance Company announced it has insured the first module of the new international spac...
Commission system blamed for mis-selling.
Cornhill Life has hit back at claims that commission payments were a significant factor in pensions ...
Is a car park ever a road?
In a case involving General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, a woman was injured when s...
Landlord not liable for tenants' noise.
In 1975 Camden Council in London converted a Victorian end-of-terrace house into three one-bedroom f...
New Labour brings new fears for NHS.
The UK's largest ever corporate health insurance survey has found the number of companies expressing...
Guardian under threat.
It looks as if the inevitable is about to happen to Guardian. A long-time bid favourite, it seems th...
Vesta sells-off shares.
Troubled Alabama-based property/casualty insurer Vesta Insurance Group is selling one-third of its s...
It's time for a zero tolerance stance with the car conmen.
For too long insurers have been losing the war against car criminals, but now there are plans to turn the tables. Following last week's Post Magazine conference on motor fraud, Jonathan Guy outlines the industry's strategy.
Clinton under fire over Jones case.
A conservative group has asked the Judge presiding over the Paula Jones harassment lawsuit to reject...
Queen opens FSA HQ.
The Financial Services Authority rolled out the red carpet at its new headquarters at Canary Wharf l...
Speech confirms insurers' fears.
The insurance industry had much to digest in the Queen's Speech, with mixed news and the threat of i...
Key Choice hits target.
Key Choice smashed its target with over 22,000 leads from this year's International Motor Show. The ...
Commercial upgrade.
Hartley Cooper & Warner has revitalised its commercial line facility to give all brokers higher stan...
UK firms: profits healthy.
UK companies are effectively combating the economics slowdown by shedding jobs and scaling down inve...
Nominations for positions on the Council of Lloyd's.
Eight candidates have been nominated to fill five positions on the Council of Lloyd's. The workin...
Aon continues on acquisition trail.
AON has continued its acquisition strategy with two purchases - IRISC Claims Management Epsom and Wa...
Fury at cash hike on crashes.
The insurance industry has been warning policyholders that premium rises are now inevitable in the m...
Lord Hunt slams reforms.
A senior politician has branded the government's proposed Access to Justice Bill as "more bills for ...
Bad medicine from the NHS.
The government has long mounted a campaign to encourage the NHS Trusts to recoup treatment costs for...
First fund for insurance sector.
Hiscox Investment Management and Singer & Friedlander Investment Management have launched the first ...
Motorcycle security.
The fight against motorcycle crime has moved up a gear with the launch of a new code of practice for...
Melcher ready to shake, rattle and roll at Sun Life.
Sun Life of Canada's incoming general manager Stephen Melcher has said he wants the company to be a ...
Commission: the root of all mis-selling?
Pots, kettles and the colour black came quickly to mind when I read Sir Mark Weinberg's comments on ...