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GISC meeting to decide on remit.
The General Insurance Standards Council board meets next Thursday to decide on its regulatory remit....
Skandia pushes cross-selling.
NIG Skandia has launched a new scheme to help brokers wrestle home insurance business from mortgage ...
Insurance industry is clamping down.
The insurance industry is clamping down on dishonest travellers this summer in an effort to reduce b...
Crossing the gulf between risk managers.
I read with interest 'Staying on Track (PM supplement, 17 June, p12). I am pleased to see there i...
The Domino effect.
Lotus Domino claims to have cut the time it takes between a customer making a claim and receiving pa...
Anti-crime site.
A website dedicated to fighting crime will be launched at the Home Office next week as part of a par...
Spectrum of inspiration.
Brokers are set to capitalise on the booming niche business market with a new self-help aid from HSB...
St Paul boosts regions.
Liability and property insurer St Paul is to boost its underwriting salesforce by 25% to meet the de...
Appointment at Zurich.
Ian Chapman has been appointed treasury manager of the Zurich alternative risk financing team. He jo...
To Asia with Lloyd's?
Changes in Asian markets have forced Lloyd's to downscale an ambitious plan to establish a regional market. Jeremy Golden looks at the attractions of such a project and the obstacles it has to overcome.
Construction care.
Loss adjuster Crawford THG has launched a new, fully managed approach to resolving property damage c...
Paying for racism.
The City is facing a spate of discrimination claims that could cost millions of pounds in compensati...
Woolf sparks skills shortage.
The insurance industry is facing a skills shortage following a dramatic rise in the number of insure...
Darling fails to charm pension providers.
Pension providers hoping for leeway in charges for delivering stakeholder found little cheer from th...
White knight of the west?
Do you want to know about overpricing, secret payments and a shrinking market? PMI insurer Western Provident Association's chief executive Julian Stainton spoke to Alex Broad about all this and more.
Football giveaway.
Post Magazine is to continue the Avon Combination football ticket giveaway next season and it kicks ...
Chartered loss adjusters McLarens Toplis.
Chartered loss adjusters McLarens Toplis was appointed by the liability insurers for North Western T...
N. African growth.
The Axa Group is to become Morocco's second largest insurance company with the merging of Compagnie ...
BIA correction.
The entry finalist in the category Loss Adjuster of the Year in the British Insurance Awards should ...
International business assistance.
A new company has been set up help UK health insurers exploit opportunities to expand into internati...
Group plans.
Group personal pension plans will be allowed to be named stakeholder pensions providing safeguards a...
GISC gets final go-ahead.
The General Insurance Standards Council was given the green light when the Financial Services and Ma...
Body of data to fight inflation.
Bodily injury claims paid by insurers have shot up in the past ten years, but Mike Brockman and Douglas Stewart say more inflation-beating increases are on the way.
Cushioning all the falls.
Not enough is being done to reduce accidents as the latest government figures show that visits to ac...