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Flotation on hold.
Plans to float insurance solutions provider Experian have been put on hold after its parent company ...
Indy five defect to Underwriter.
Independent's London Market professional indemnity team has walked out to join new insurer Underwrit...
Appointment at Allan Chapman & James.
Allan Chapman & James has appointed Louise Miller as senior sales executive on its new business team...
A question of interpretation.
Mark Baylis gives his response to a letter from Alan Burtonshaw, client manager, Swiss Re, carried in last week's Post Magazine explaining why the company was unhappy with some aspects of the Code of Best Practice on rehabilitation.
Penny Black's insurance week.
At AIRMIC's 36th annual dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel last week, Jonathan Bloomer, deputy grou...
Internet test in an Instant.
Software consultancy firm Reasoning has launched an Internet-based product that tests insurers' prog...
Cable car cash.
Families of the 20 people who died when a US Marines jet clipped a cable car line in the Alps are se...
Suomi fights back.
Trustees of policyholders in Finnish mutual life insurer Suomi have backed the board's plans to resu...
Exclusion zone.
Combating financial and social exclusion is hampered by moves to address fraud. Stuart Cliffe loo...
Insurance database.
Cio Connect has teamed up with business information specialists Shilito Market Intelligence to set u...
Appointment at HSBC Select.
Nick Weaver has been recruited as a director of HSBC Select, the national telephone broking division...
Marsh's new office in Cardiff.
The first secretary of the National Assembly for Wales, Alun Michael MP (second right), has welcomed...
£1.25bn payouts.
Equitas, the company established to reinsure and run-off the massive pre-1992 liabilites of Lloyd's ...
Can't cope, won't cope.
Work-related stress has hit the headlines again, with an estimated one in three 16-24 year olds stressed at work. Unfortunately many employers seem unable or unwilling to recognise the importance of dealing with stress. Deborah Edwards reports.
Appointment at Old Mutual.
Jim Sutcliffe will be joining the board of Old Mutual as chief executive. He will be responsible ...
The Renaissance Insurance Group.
The Renaissance Insurance Group (RIG) has launched what is thought to be Russia's first on-line insu...
Now actuaries blast FSA plans.
Actuaries are the latest body to criticise the intrusive nature of the Financial Services Authorit...
Calling home for success.
Call centre managers expect the number of teleworkers to increase ten-fold, according to a recent survey. Alex Broad explains.
Crisis-busters.
The general insurance market is going to have to become a "crisis alleviator" to improve underwritin...
A long-term care guessing game.
The prospects of any significant decision on the financing of long-term care appear to have disappea...
Groupama sows seeds to grow broker panel.
Groupama Insurances is to grow its commercial insurance panel by up to 100 brokers. The company, ...
Aon buys Velo to kick-start pan-European fleet dream.
Global broker Aon has bought Velo Motor Accident Management in a bid to develop what it claims will ...
Closing the book on breast implants.
The long legal battle against Dow Corning over alleged damage to women from silicone breasts is draw...
Independents widen legal choice.
Charles Wright, general manager of DAS, claims his company is "the only really independent legal exp...