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Eastgate shake-up
Max Carruthers, chief executive of Eastgate Assistance, is leaving the company. It is understood th...
Norwich Union premiums up
Norwich Union, which will shortly merge with CGU, recorded a 58% increase in worldwide annual premium...
Copenhagen's bespoke risk
Copenhagen Re and Euclidian are to join forces to offer finite risk reinsurance. The cover will be w...
Pru up 54% as IFA business booms
Prudential has recorded a 54% increase in sales of insurance and investment premiums in the first thr...
Blanch profit plummets
As predicted in its March profit warning, EW Blanch's net income in the first quarter of this year tu...
Cornhill commercial fast track
Allianz Cornhill is setting up a national network of local commercial underwriting teams for broke...
Allied and Zurich to be as one
Zurich Financial Services plans to unify Zurich Allied and Allied Zurich into a single Swiss holding ...
Limit and Wellington profits down
Lloyd's vehicles Limit and Wellington have both announced falls in profits ahead of their planned mer...
M&S enter general insurance
Marks & Spencer Financial Services has announced it is to enter the general insurance market in the a...
Government forced to ammend FSA bill
The Government has been forced to make a number of concessions to the Lords over its plans for the re...
Insurers are being brokerphobic claims BIBA chairman
By Anthony Gould
APIL backs claims prevention
Insurance companies will be told tomorrow to stop scrabbling for market share and start acting constr...
Fury at CATs decision.
Mortgage professionals are astonished that brokers will be unable to charge commission on consumer-f...
Scottish Life brushes off sale rumours.
Group pension specialist Scottish Life has rebuffed reports that it has appointed Edinburgh-based in...
Appointment at Permanent Insurance.
Phil Calvert has taken up the newly-created role of head of national accounts with Permanent Insuran...
Best quote system.
A new online trawling system has been set up to help brokers and independent financial advisers find...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A bank clerk whose career was ruined when she developed repetitive strain inj...
Stressbusting from Crawford.
Loss adjuster Crawford & Co has launched a stress management programme. Launched via Crawford's h...
If NHS was an insurer it would be closed down'.
Chartered Insurance Institute president Reg Brown (above) has savaged the National Health Service fo...
Support for schools.
Gary Slater, managing director of Best Underwriting Agency, is joined by Liz Thomas, headteacher of ...
Get the lowdown on liability.
There is no doubt that one of the biggest issues facing the insurance industry is the explosion in l...
Emergency on web.
Relectronic-Remech's CD-ROM based business continuity planning aid The Emergency File is now availab...
Industry would do well to heed contractor plea.
I must congratulate William Want Sibley on his letter 'Builders' poor deal on pay' (PM 9 March, p14)...
Independent Insurance integrates Experian's Flood Database.
Independent Insurance has integrated Experian's Flood Database with its own quotation support engine...