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A site with prospects.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Laws & effects.
In the wake of the US terrorist attacks, Steve Reynolds and Bernie Heinze look at legal precedents and how they could impact on the unravelling of claims in the longer term.
ATE test cases.
Ronnie Henderson, chief executive of personal injury specialist Claims Direct, last week confirmed i...
Appointment at 3/4 South Square.
Barry Mortimer, a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, has joined chambers...
Mould cover capped.
Insurance coverage for mould damage in homeowners' insurance policies would be scaled back significa...
FM Green calls off acquisition plans.
Commercial broker FM Green has called off plans to make a £4-£5m acquisition (PM April 19, p4) becau...
New research post.
Ecclesiastical has created the new post of intermediary research analyst, focusing on research withi...
CII in talks across Europe.
Dr Sandy Scott (pictured), director general of the CII, said it was involved in talks with France, G...
Appointment at Aon Consulting.
Aon Consulting has appointed John Forsyth as a senior consultant and actuary in its Leeds office. He...
Modern pressures.
Susan Rice, chief executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland, said modern life will help push through the conv...
Massive changes lie ahead for the insurance industry.
Anthony Gould and Diane Smyth report from the Chartered Insurance Institute's 100th conference held in Edinburgh last week.
White House claims.
The White House has rejected claims from AIG chief executive Maurice Greenberg that insurers request...
Appointment at Lexicon.
Lexicon, the hi-tech IT service provider, has taken on Nicola Ridler, who joins the company as corpo...
Foil: emphasis on partnership.
A conference organised jointly by the association of personal injury lawyers (Apil) and the forum of...
New Africa Capital.
South African financial services group New Africa Capital, which made its debut on the Johannesburg ...
GISC gets in training.
Investment in training will stand a company in good stead when business pressures begin to rise, asserts Mike Poll.
ABI calls for vigilance in wake of Indie collapse.
John Parker, head of general insurance at the Association of British Insurers, called for the indust...
Appointment at Acturis.
Simon Ronaldson has joined Acturis, the provider of web-based technology platforms for brokers, as s...
Miller Fisher confirms Pearl account loss.
Outsourcing services provider Miller Fisher this week confirmed that it had lost the Pearl loss adju...
Lloyd's inertia fear.
As the insurance industry endeavours to meet the demands for information on the financial implication...
FG Watts Networks.
FG Watts & Partners has become the latest broker to sign up to the Broker Network. Senior partner at...
Fitch: Lloyd's has underestimated losses
Rating agency Fitch believes Lloyd's have underestimated its losses from the American terrorist attac...
The great escape.
Insurers are avoiding tackling the simple solutions to data-capture problems says James Sharp, yet these would provide brokers with a welcome escape from the task of re-keying the same information several times to get insurance quotes.
Circuit-breakers.
Online trading is beginning to come into its own, however, says Paul Cheal, the industry must embrace e-commerce fully to ensure it remains a viable way of doing business. Those that do not, risk stopping the system in its tracks.