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ZIFA to double mortgage network.
Zurich Independent Financial Adviser Group aims to double its mortgage network by the end of the sum...
Keeping track of the rules.
Veronica Cowan reports how new regulations have put added pressures on the already difficult employers' liability market.
Kidnappings on the increase
Kidnappings for ransom reached record numbers last year with Latin America still the worst region acc...
Country and western.
Eric Alexander discovers how the UK and US political risks market is coping with turbulent times in other parts of the world.
Appointment at Equifax.
Chris Cawthorn has been made senior vice-president and European knowledge engineering director for E...
Standard Life plays it cool as carpetbaggers regroup.
Standard Life has adopted a wait and see approach to the news that carpetbaggers are to lodge a revi...
Burn your budgets.
The Inspiration Group, which includes Prudential, Aon and HSBC, has been warned that agility, hunger...
Stress tops poll.
Stress at work is the number one concern of local authority risk managers, according to a new survey...
Munich Re to go on spending spree.
The news that giant German reinsurer Munich Re plans acquisitions in all of its key business areas w...
Claimants are ruining standards.
I read Grahame Weatherley's letter (PM 6 April p16) with great interest and feel it raised a wider i...
Texas care decision.
US health insurance company Aetna is to allow the state of Texas to regulate its managed care operat...
AIFA happy to become host.
Members of IFA Association Critical Illness Working Party have unanimously accepted the Association ...
Time to go.
David Bland, director general of the Chartered Insurance Institute for over a decade, explains to David Worsfold why the time is right for him to step down.
JLT decides to risk solutions.
International broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has lured a senior team on board to set up a new practic...
What the Papers Say.
The Times Tortoises are being 'fingerprinted' to identify them if they should be stolen. An impor...
Buy for the Scor-board.
French reinsurer Scor has become a leading player in the global life reinsurance market after buying...
Agents reveal their apathy.
A broker survey has revealed a complete lack of interest in the regulation of general insurance amon...
Charity Run.
Putting his best foot forward in Sunday's London marathon was 54-year-old Peter James, managing dire...
Private sector boost vital for ailing NHS.
The NHS is failing to meet the public's needs, and private medical treatment is just relieving the symptoms of this over-stretched resource. Mike Hall believes that the under-utilised private sector has a vital role to play.
Insurers don't keep the faith.
Has the doctrine of (utmost) good faith in insurance now been dumped? asked loss adjuster A Hoskins ...
Repair boss dies in blaze
An arson attack killed a Direct Line repair centre boss and his lover last week. James Murphy, 28...
Wellington sees Limit to profits.
Limit and Wellington, the Integrated Lloyd's Vehicles who intend to merge, have both posted disappoi...
Appointment at Computer Sciences Corporation.
Phil Ashton is the new intermediary sales manager for CSC. He joins the IT solutions company after r...
Dial calls up CSC.
Dial Direct, Coventry-based intermediary GF Bennett's motor call centre operation, is to install a n...