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Getting stuck in the web.
After a year of surfing through insurers' web sites, Richard Griffiths looks at how they have improved and gives tips to prospective site-holders.
Teamwork can beat arsonists.
The cost of arson is immense, both in human and financial terms. Glenn Miller explains how the industry is teaming up with the police and fire services to spark off a nationwide bid to foil the firebugs.
Ellis & Buckle secures NU deal.
Norwich Union has become the latest insurer to scrap its adjusting panel and sign a sole agreement -...
Got a new motor?
Iron Trades has launched a motor trade policy for businesses which specialise in mechanical repairs,...
Allstate files multi-million lawsuit.
United States medical insurer Allstate has filed two lawsuits asking for £15m from two Southern Cali...
IBRC says it knows nothing about cash injection plans.
Rumours are rife that the Insurance Brokers Registration Council is to be buoyed through its "lame d...
BIIBA leaflet causes latest skirmish in regulation war.
The bitter war of words surrounding the successor to the Insurance Brokers Registration Council has ...
Standard Life stay put.
Standard Life has issued a statement saying that it has no plans to relocate to the other side of Ha...
Luck of the Irish eludes non-life insurers.
Figures released by the Irish Insurance Federation show Irish non-life insurers suffered higher oper...
Exclusive - Internet copyright claims to rocket.
Insurers have been warned to expect an increase in the number of Internet copyright claims coming to...
Michael Meacher to deliver keynote speech at conference.
The minister for the environment Michael Meacher will deliver the keynote speech at an insurance ind...
Finding their calling.
Michael Tarte-Booth charts the history of call centres and looks at their booming prospects.
Robinson Hoggs stakes in Paymaster.
Financial services group Hogg Robinson has bought the remaining 70% stake in pensions administration...
Injury row boils over.
An angry policyholder is battling with two insurers over their refusal to settle on a personal healt...
Commentary - Ghosts in the legal machine.
A recent World in Action programme which dealt with alleged phantom litigation claims made for alarm...
Dickson calls time on off-the-peg cover.
Drinkers can now sink their pints safe in the knowledge that their local is able to get good value i...
Independent does its homework on student cover.
Students can now insure their possessions for the entire duration of their degree course. The Cam...
Oxford studies LTCI.
Professionals, campaigners and experts in the field of long-term care will meet in Oxford next week ...
Time to round up the black sheep.
Jim Rymer's suggestion ('Don't let buck for credit blacklists stop with insurers', PM, 27 Aug, p3) s...
Market wordings.
CNA Re has become the first company to add its own policy wordings to the London Market Wordings Dat...
Mad about M&A.
Technology giant IBM has conducted a survey of European insurance executives which found 54% of them...
Reinsurance: which way the future?
After all the conference speculation, where is the reinsurance market really headed? Alex Beatty talks to the people who will decide the direction of the industry.
Limit pledges further growth.
Lloyd's investment trust Limit produced impressive results for the year ending 31 March 1998, assist...
Taking a gamble.
Reinsurers are heading into the unknown in Monte Carlo this year, says Janina Clark.