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Appointment at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Andrew Crouchman has joined the London office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He will work as ...
Counting uninsured drivers is a hit and miss task.
In last week's Post Magazine, Garry Cochrane of Privilege Insurance says that there are about one mi...
Damage limitation.
Damage control firm Restorex is claiming an industry first in air safety, after introducing an atmos...
Full marks for presentation, but what about the content?
Government, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is 'the system or method of governing'. But Mark Boleat, director general of the Association of British Insurers, asks if New Labour is more interested in how it looks than what it does.
Appointment at Broker Direct.
Kevin Startton has joined Broker Direct as business development executive for the south east. Previo...
Appointment at McLarens Toplis.
Tom Heward has taken over as regional managing director for London and the south east following the ...
Y2K broker crisis.
Around 1000 brokers face chaos because their business software systems are not year 2000 compliant. ...
Born in the USA.
A fact-finding trip to America resulted in AIG revolutionising the field of employer's liability claims. Jonathan Swift talks to the award-winning team which rehabilitates, not procrastinates.
Saving made simple.
Norwich Union is set to make saving simpler for its Flexibond customers. From March, policyholder...
Education before compulsion': Ross.
The forthcoming Pensions Reform Green Paper should include the scrapping of income support, the chai...
Heard the one about the deaf traffic cop?
Think of an occupational injury, and total or partial deafness does not always spring to mind. Yet as Ken Cannar reports, legislation in the past decade has seen the number of cases rising.
Eastgate snaps up Hambro in £51m hush-hush deal.
Insurance consultants Eastgate has doubled in size after buying Hambro Assistance for £51m following...
Appointment at J&H Marsh & McLennan.
Peter von Roenne has joined the marine practice of J&H Marsh & McLennan in Germany. He joins the com...
If you attend one insurance conference next year, make sure its
If there is one insurance conference you attend next year it has to be Insurance '99, the strategic ...
Final frontier of cover.
Industrial Insurance Company announced it has insured the first module of the new international spac...
Commission system blamed for mis-selling.
Cornhill Life has hit back at claims that commission payments were a significant factor in pensions ...
Is a car park ever a road?
In a case involving General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, a woman was injured when s...
Landlord not liable for tenants' noise.
In 1975 Camden Council in London converted a Victorian end-of-terrace house into three one-bedroom f...
New Labour brings new fears for NHS.
The UK's largest ever corporate health insurance survey has found the number of companies expressing...
Guardian under threat.
It looks as if the inevitable is about to happen to Guardian. A long-time bid favourite, it seems th...
Vesta sells-off shares.
Troubled Alabama-based property/casualty insurer Vesta Insurance Group is selling one-third of its s...
It's time for a zero tolerance stance with the car conmen.
For too long insurers have been losing the war against car criminals, but now there are plans to turn the tables. Following last week's Post Magazine conference on motor fraud, Jonathan Guy outlines the industry's strategy.
Clinton under fire over Jones case.
A conservative group has asked the Judge presiding over the Paula Jones harassment lawsuit to reject...
Queen opens FSA HQ.
The Financial Services Authority rolled out the red carpet at its new headquarters at Canary Wharf l...