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Aegon head takes IFA role
David Henderson, group chief executive of Aegon UK, has been appointed chairman of the Association of...
Cornhill to take action as profits dive
Cornhill Insurance has posted poor results for 1999, with an operating loss of £800 000 compared to a...
GISC defends referral to OFT.
The General Insurance Standards Council insisted this week that it was right to refer its proposed r...
Law firm on 'Net.
City law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has launched a new website, www.blg.co.uk. The site features ...
IBRC livid at cash demand.
A demand by the regulator for more cash from brokers to pay for pensions' mis-selling administration...
Turbulent times will not affect IBRC's duty.
As the repeal of the Insurance Brokers Registration Act is taking much longer than originally envisa...
Takeover complete.
US Farmers Group has completed its takeover of the Foremost Corp of America, the leading US insurer ...
Clerical's option.
A new option of a 0.5% fund-based commission has been added to all new transfer payments, single con...
BIA and LIA talk 'gap-filling'.
The Association of British Insurers and the Life Insurance Association are floating the idea that a ...
Space market mourns satellites.
The decision by US telecommunications group Iridium to destroy its 66 orbiting satellites is a furth...
Days of blunder.
As the film industry gears up for the Oscars on Sunday night, insurers have been given a cautionary ...
Group not for sale.
Broker Bradstock, which at the beginning of the year said it had received approaches which could lea...
Sleighed on slope.
RAF team leader Wing Commander Tim Hill was left bruised but exhilarated after an armed services bob...
Avon calling for winners.
The winner of this month's Avon Insurance football competition is Mark Chadwick, business developmen...
Direct Line to sell cars online.
Direct Line has teamed up with Dixon Motors to sell new and used cars online. The deal follow's D...
Negligence over details not a breach of good faith - Bailey v
11 January 2000 Queen's Bench Division A woman received damages after a car in which she was a ...
Broker plans outlet blitz.
A Shropshire broker has promised to open 50 new insurance outlets in under a year. Millennium Ins...
Playing by the rules.
It will soon be a year on from the introduction of the Woolf Reforms to the civil procedure rules. Claimant lawyer Tracy Johnson explains what the changes have meant to those sitting on the other side of the fence to insurers.
Simple and effective but limited.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Reinsurer challenges Holocaust law.
German reinsurer Gerling has sued California's insurance regulator in the first legal challenge to a...
Halifax targets the rich
The Halifax bank is to take a 60% stake in high-net worth life assurance group St James's Place Capit...
Pass it on.
Third party administration firms offer a wealth of services to insurers - but getting the insurers to acknowledge this is another matter, says David Fanning.
Penny Black's insurance week.
Poor old Royal & Sun Alliance. Under performing shares and a lacklustre response from analysts follo...
RSA's Thai chief.
Royal & Sun Alliance has made Pattanapong Somboontakerng chief executive officer of its Thailand ope...