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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...
Pop goes launch date.
The new online intermediary, inspop.com, has had to put its launch date back from 17 April to 1 July...
Budget Special - 'Disappointed but not surprised'.
Mike Hall, managing director of insurer Prime Health, was "disappointed but not surprised" with the ...
Exclusive - Eastgate sues LMG for £20m.
Claims assistance group Eastgate is suing the Lindsey Morden Group for more than £20m over the Hambr...
End this contractor merry-go-round.
I refer to a letter from Stan Noakes (PM 16 March, p16). Evidently Mr Noakes is unable to differenti...
Breaking the broker deadlock.
Brokers are facing several problems when it comes to recruiting staff at all levels. Jonathan Swift finds out why and what the solutions may be.
No fine for director.
In an article in Post Magazine, 'Fenchurch Ruling', 9 March p3, it was incorrectly reported that Nig...
Telstra buys INS.
Australia's giant telecom company Telstra has bought Insurance Network Services for an undisclosed s...
Winterthur hits high.
Winterthur Life, the UK life and pensions arm of Credit Suisse, has announced record new business ga...
Genetic claims 'exaggerated'.
The government has branded claims that insurers are to be allowed to test applicants for genetic dis...
Insurers await damages ruling.
The Court of Appeal will decide this morning whether to accept the Law Commission of England and Wal...
Looking Sharp.
Towergate Underwriting Group has acquired Romford-based insurance broker JR Poel. The broker will be...
Nosedive warning to aviation insurers.
The reality gap between client and market expectations could send the aviation insurance industry in...