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Marketing is dumb.
David Martin, Aon, London, said that "fundamentally all marketing by both insurers and brokers is do...
Claims initiative.
Pricewaterhouse Coopers is looking at a new initiative to help speed up the payment of claims from t...
Cornhill calls for core skills drive.
Chris Hanks, Allianz Cornhill's Underwriting Academy underwriting and training executive, accused th...
US Tragedy: News - Financial Services Authority.
The Financial Services Authority has changed its rules to prevent panic selling of shares by life in...
Inter-Alliance losses.
Independent financial adviser group Inter-Alliance has announced a 91% increase in turnover to £26.2...
A minute's silence.
The 100th CII conference was opened with a minute's silence in memory of all those who died in the U...
Copenhagen Re not binding contracts.
The Danish reinsurer Copenhagen Re is temporarily not binding reinsurance contracts, in the wake of ...
Stirling buys Exchange FS.
Software provider Marlborough Stirling has snapped up independent financial adviser and general insu...
US implications.
The financial implications of the US attacks will take years to unravel. "Governments and capital ma...
Brokers should come under PPB.
Brokers should come under the Policyholders' Protection Board said Tony Lancaster, chief executive a...
RI3K exchange targets Asian market.
RI3K, previously city3k, has launched an exchange aimed at the $30bn Asian reinsurance market. Ba...
Slade takes a shot at Paddick.
David Slade, chairman of Perkins Slade, used his slot in a plenary session on distribution to take a...
Atrium and SVB post poor results.
Lloyd's insurers Atrium Underwriting and SVB both posted poor results for the first six months of the...
BIBA and IIB trading insults.
Regulation of insurance brokers was top of the news agenda in Post Magazine 10 years ago, with the a...
We must support the GISC.
Over the last four years, and following extensive consultation, the vast majority of the insurance i...
What the Papers Say.
Daily Mail Claire Roe stands to whistle up a £100,000 fortune - if she loses her looks. Claire, 2...
Made to measure.
Before-the-event insurance is not the answer for all compensation claims, as the Court of Appeal decision in Sawar v Alam illustrated, but Mike Harvey believes the ruling shows that BTE has a strong role to play and that it is up to insurers to assess…
Ace strikes a broker pensions deal.
Ace Europe has struck a deal so its general insurance brokers can sell stakeholder pensions to SME b...
Appointment at Insurance Services Office.
Insurance Services Office has recruited Mark Strang as account executive. With a particular focus on...
SIF: St Paul warns of unsustainable rates.
St Paul warned of "unsustainable" rates in the solicitors' indemnity market this week, as it transpi...
US Tragedy: News - Future uncertain despite aviation stop-gap.
The future of aviation insurance was still unclear, following an emergency meeting between the Treasu...
Appointment at Shakespeares.
Birmingham-based law firm Shakespeares has promoted John Buckle and Jonathan Pyke to the position of...
The heart of the matter.
The latest CSC annual survey into issues of information systems management has found that e-commerce and related issues are at the heart of the way the financial sector carries out its business. However, the findings also suggest insurers are lagging…
Foreign aid.
If it was not for overseas investment in UK insurers, there would have been insurance company collap...