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Staff go as Groupama taken off the market
Groupama in the UK has been taken off the market by its French parent following a failure to find a ...
Reluctance to provide training.
As you reported last week, there seems to be a great reluctance on the part of the industry, brokers...
ABI wins NHS law reprieve.
The Association of British Insurers last week won a temporary reprieve from the government, which ca...
Folgate takes charge of MasterPlan products.
Insurer Folgate, in conjunction with parent company Towergate Underwriting Group, will take charge o...
Andrew Shone, deputy chairman of Lloyd's insurer Brit ...
Andrew Shone, deputy chairman of Lloyd's insurer Brit, has resigned as a director. He will retire fr...
US company Unica, a marketing software provider ...
US company Unica, a marketing software provider, has launched a UK operation based in High Wycombe t...
Insurance system provider ...
Insurance system provider and industry portal insurE-com has secured TickIT accreditation for its so...
Guardian accounts row.
Disaster recovery firm Guardian IT has announced accounting discrepancies of between £2m and £2.5m. ...
What the papers said this week.
The Express A pop fan is seeking £14m damages for not being able to see Michael Jackson properly ...
Good repute is good business.
John Browne, one of the speakers at the Chartered Insurance Institute's Society of Fellows' inaugural Breakthrough lecture last November, revisits his theme and warns insurers that they must safeguard their reputations for the wider survival of the…
Claimnet, the supplier of internet-based information ...
Claimnet, the supplier of internet-based information for the insurance industry, has been appointed ...
Designer stadium.
The design for the Allianz Arena, the new Munich-based stadium to be shared by the city's football c...
Broker Dallas Kirkland (Professions) ...
Broker Dallas Kirkland (Professions) has given Post Magazine a pair of tickets to the Ministry of So...
Call to increase Lloyd's Central Fund.
Lloyd's Central Fund is still far too small, with many market practitioners wanting it to be "much, ...
Federal prosecutors claim to have completed the investigation ...
Federal prosecutors claim to have completed the investigation into a scandal that drove Californian ...
UK business should start preparing now ...
UK business should start preparing now for the introduction of the euro, according to software speci...
Reinsurance trading exchange Inreon ...
Reinsurance trading exchange Inreon has joined Acord, the global insurance standards body to partici...
Hit list.
The insurers with liabilities relating to Turner and Newall asbestos-related claims will be identifi...
Trouble at the top.
Now more business is being conducted via e-mail and the internet, top-level staff of smaller firms are more at risk of being held personally liable for their company's failings. Not yet widespread, directors' and officers' cover is a must for SMEs, warns…
Hercules to double acquisition spend.
Paul Davis, commercial director of Hercules Property Services, has stated that he would not be surpr...
Perkins Slade to double premium income.
Birmingham-based commercial broker Perkins Slade has stated its intention to double its premium inco...
Rehab contact list goes live.
The Bodily Injury Claims Management Association has set up a new website at www.bicma.org.uk, which ...
Lloyd's director of regulation ...
Lloyd's director of regulation David Gittings is to take over as director of the Financial Services ...
Electronic cure hidden away.
In cracking the leakage problem (PM, 31 January, p24), you refer to leakage of household claims as a...