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All change.
Post Magazine's first survey of UK loss adjusters shows that many feel strongly about retaining thei...
Millennium Motor Spares signs up.
Millennium Motor Spares has signed up to eSalvage, an Internet-based service set up by Glass Informa...
Reliance shuts doors under pensions pressure
Reliance Mutual Insurance has closed to new business, blaming the cost of compensating victims of per...
Next-door nuisance.
A landlord was neither obliged to install sound insulation in an existing dwelling nor liable for da...
Be prepared.
The Institute of Financial Planning is holding a further series of CFP licence preparation days coun...
Appointment at Donns Solicitors.
Former head of commercial legal services at AA, Clive Robb, has joined Donns Solicitors as claims ma...
The word is there's too many words.
Axa got more than it bargained for with the acquisition of Guardian Royal Exchange. For GRE has nar...
Question marks over LIA/IFP deal.
The deal between the Life Insurance Association and the Institute of Financial Planning is hanging i...
Russia house backs legislation to keep out foreign insurers.
The upper house of Russia's parliament has thrown its weight behind the amended insurance Bill which...
DAS staff tackle army assault course for charity.
A team of staff from the Bristol head office of legal expenses insurer DAS helped raise £16,000 for ...
Broker weighs up the pros to help ex-cons.
A Lloyd's broker is helping former prisoners get back on the straight and narrow. Wakefield-based...
Virtual views.
Over half of those operating within the call centre industry believe a virtual call centre will repl...
CGU watches out.
CGU has signed a deal worth £2m with the National Neighbourhood Watch Association for a commercial p...
Veteran broker dies.
Kenneth Griffiths, the first insurance broker president of the Liverpool Insurance Institute and a t...
Abbey broker offer.
Abbey Legal Protection is offering brokers 5% additional brokerage on legal expenses policies sold b...
Peaks and troughs.
The Swiss insurance market is lying between structural change and new departures. Martin Jara and Dr Thomas Kuhne explain whether the market is running like clockwork.
Appointment at Merricks Solicitors.
Insurance specialist John Webster has joined Merricks Solicitors as a partner to head its insurance ...
Appointment at Groupama Insurances.
Groupama has appointed Stephen Albutt as head of its accident and health team and Paul Hampshire as ...
Picking up the pieces.
Earthquakes, infernos, air crashes - no-one likes hearing about them yet they are the staple diet for a large section of the insurance industry. Eric Alexander discovers why 1999 has been a busy year for the financial masters of disaster.
Key role for insurers in drive to help poor.
The government has demanded an expansion in insurance with rent schemes in its drive to tackle finan...
Appointment at Columbus Travel.
Syd Henderson has been appointed managing director of Columbus Travel. During a 15-year career, Mr H...
Insurer's 10% off.
A rates hardening in the travel insurance sector has prompted one provider to offer a 10% discount a...
Pru wants bedfellow for good mornings in Vietnam.
Prudential is to target China and Vietnam as it looks to expand its Asian life insurance business. ...
A tonic for Lime St.
Mike Hannan, chief executive of the London Processing Centre, is a man with a plan - several of them, in fact, including ending the rivalry between Lloyd's and the rest of the London Market. Marcus Alcock reports.