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Killer's claim fails.
A murderer has failed to win £2000 in compensation from Home Secretary Jack Straw for the alleged lo...
Appointment at Willis Group.
Caroline Collard has become marketing and communications director for the Willis Group. She started ...
Don't let greed beat choice.
The attempt to push Standard Life into demutualising is utterly without merit and riddled with hypoc...
Lyon office for PCS.
Loss adjuster PCS is set to open another office in France to complement its Paris office, opened in ...
Beginning of the end?
Mutuals look like a throwback to the past in today's fast-changing, consolidating insurance world. ...
Implications of RSI case.
The article entitled 'Messy Claims Ahead' (PM supplement 10 February, p23), suggests the legal argum...
A Life less ordinary.
Established in 1825 as The Life Insurance Company of Scotland, Standard Life took its present name b...
Online plan hatched.
Prudential's online bank egg has chosen Accurate Software's Bankrec Corporate solution to automate r...
Shoestring advice.
The latest issue of Edgar Hamilton's advice to brokers, Marketing on a Shoestring, focuses on travel...
Even-handed' GISC.
I have been following with interest the lively exchanges between Andrew Paddick of the Institute of ...
Intech wins contract.
Insurance software specialist Intech Solutions has won a contract to supply Sackville, managing agen...
Ex-director of broker in court.
A former director of broker Denis Hilton was this week due to appear in court on a charge relating t...
All Party Group backs mutual.
MPs backed Standard Life's bid to retain its mutual status when they met with the company last week....
Appointment at Reliance National Insurance.
Michael Lavender has been appointed as casualty engineer for Reliance National Insurance. Mr Lavende...
Fugitive broker extradited.
An Irish broker who fled to England after his business collapsed has been extradited back to his hom...
Appointment at Darwin Rhodes.
Melanie Birch and Clare Phipps have joined Darwin Rhodes recruitment consultants. Ms Birch joins fro...
New risk service.
Aon Corporation is introducing a new risk transfer service which it claims will allow companies to s...
Direct Line in £50m 'Net drive.
Britain's biggest private motor insurer Direct Line today announced it is to pump £50m into the deve...
Internet virgins.
Virgin Direct and the Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers are both going online. Vir...
Clerical's top result.
Clerical Medical's mixed fund produced the best result during 1999 of all mixed funds in the market ...
... a risk manager.
In the second part of our new series, Anthony Gould spent a day with Graeme Lee, risk manager at logistics company Tibbett & Britten to find out what a risk manager gets up to ...
Brokers given the write stuff to compete.
A Lloyd's broker is arming high street brokers with tools to compete more effectively with direct wr...
Seeing danger in a vote winner.
As the government reflects on its first 1000-plus days in power, it is interesting to see that 50 ye...
Appointment at RP Hodson.
Richard Carter has been appointed marine manager by RP Hodson Broking Group. Mr Carter, who was prev...