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Insurer acts in wake of bombs.
Increased global tension and the resulting threat of attack on Western targets from groups using the...
Norwich Union Risk Services announces training programmes.
Norwich Union Risk Services has announced details of three new training programmes for 1998. The cou...
Mapping out the future.
Jeremy Scott, head of the insurance section of the newly merged accountancy and professional services firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, gives an insight into the future trends of the global insurance industry.
Rating roulette with high stakes.
When the world's leading players in the reinsurance market sit down around the cafe tables of Monte ...
Reinsurance to reassess.
Experts have warned the reinsurance industry that it could suffer unless it reassesses its reserving...
Winterthur Re bought by Partner Re.
The consolidation in the reinsurance industry continued this week with the sale of Winterthur Re to ...
Happy bunnies in the warren.
At The Warren, HQ of ITT London & Edinburgh, the winner of this year's Customer Care trophy at the British Insurance Awards, Alex Miller discovers a company that puts people first.
Home sweet mobile home.
They might be the bane of many motorists lives, but caravans have their fans. One such group are ...
Aon bid is just rumour.
Aon is not considering entering a buy-out war with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for Willis Caroon. The Ch...
How can firing staff produce 'centres of excellence'?
Having closed almost all their own branches, Zurich is setting about Eagle Star. I understand tha...
Marathon bike ride.
Dave Bowers, the iron man from Manchester, pedalled from Penzance to John O'Groats and pocketed a gr...
A shock to the system.
Nervous shock is a relative newcomer to the British legal system. Ken Cannar highlights the cases that have marked its course through the courts.
Birthday celebrations go up in flames.
The world's oldest transport company's 500th birthday celebrations have gone up in flames. About 60 ...
General Accident backs student expedition.
General Accident has decided to back an extraordinary student expedition. Not content with the si...
Expulsion leaves Bain Clarkson in fresh scandal.
Lloyd's broker Bain Clarkson has been caught up in another scandal after the Lloyd's Disciplinary Tr...
All systems are logo.
Insurance claims management solution provider CWA Claims Services, a subsidiary of Misys Insurance D...
AA in EDI link up.
AA Insurance has gone live with GAN Alpha as its first panel member to use industry quotation and ED...
CIS urges MSF staff to end pay dispute.
Co-Operative Insurance has urged employees affiliated to the MSF union not to take industrial action...
Product launched by Lloyd's Syndicate 839.
The first product to insure financial institutions against the effects of the millennium has been la...
Plans fail on enforcement.
It seems that everyone's worst fears about the inability of the insurance market - to get to grips w...
Equitable Life pensions raise temperatures.
It's anything but an Equitable Life for policyholders of the company's "guaranteed" pensions who hav...
Where have good intentions gone?
Simon Arnold, chairman of the Insurance Brokers Regulation Council, asks if the industry and consumers are being forgotten in the flurry of regulatory activity.
The insurance man who arrested Hess.
In early September 1948 Post Magazine was filling its pages with previews of the forthcoming Charter...
What the papers say.
THE SUN Businessman KIM Barrett was amazed when he was given legal aid - to sue legal aid chiefs....