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IT solution providers.
This table shows a selection of companies offering IT solutions for the insurance industry. It is by no means comprehensive, but provides useful contact information for those planning to invest.
Upbeat about downtime.
Phil Wright explains how a prevention-is-better-than-cure outlook is seeing risk management thrive alongside business interruption cover.
Hiscox to provide first failsafe insurance aginst unanticpated
Lloyd's insurer Hiscox is to provide the UK's first failsafe insurance against unanticipated copyrig...
BA looks outside home services.
Britannic Assurance is expected to look outside the home service sector for future acquisitions afte...
Job losses predicted.
Around 15,000 jobs will disappear from the UK insurance industry over the next twelve months, accord...
Everest acquisition.
Everest Re is to acquire Gibraltar Casualty from Prudential of America for book value at closing. La...
E-comm at Lloyd's.
IT Direct, part of Lloyd's Insurance Services, has signed an agreement with software house Cover.Net...
Appointment at Audatex.
Paul Richardson is the new insurance services director at Audatex. He was previously with Lloyds TSB...
Appointment at Harvington Underwriting.
Bill Hawcroft has been made Harvington Underwriting's regional manager for the north. He joins Harvi...
Insurers cast the Net wide.
The news this week that the Internet is to get a major boost following moves by the service provider...
Blame all round.
Miles v Smith, Burke & Pope 10 February 2000 London High Court A 14-year-old girl on her pap...
Appointment at Eurobase.
Kevin Smith has been appointed as assistant technical director at Eurobase. He joined the softwar...
A head for technology.
Alex Robinson, information technology director for Norwich Union, speaks to Alex Broad. With his ...
Patrick Smith to launch first full online insurance intermediary.
Former Hill House Hammond chairman Patrick Smith is to launch what he claims will be the UK's first ...
eXchange results.
The online financial intermediary eXchange Holdings, which floated last August, has posted prelimina...
Looking across borders.
David Fanning looks at how technological developments are opening up a range of possibilities for credit insurers to do cross-border business.
Back to basics in Brighton.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Auction by Mike Walworth raises £15,000 for Romanian orphans.
A charity auction organised by Mike Walworth, manager of insurer Highway in Leeds, raised £15,000 fo...
Dodds is Argent MD.
Cox Insurance Retail Division has confirmed Paul Dodds (left) as the managing director of its Argent...
FSA takes credit.
Credit unions are to come under the regulatory remit of the Financial Services Authority. It will en...
Prynn v Cornwall County Council.
24 January 2000 Queens Bench Division The claimant sustained severe brain damage as a result of a...
Bodies team up.
The Institute of Financial Planning has teamed up with the Life Insurance Association to promote the...
Lloyd's set for four years of losses
Ratings agent Moody's has forecast that Lloyd's will accrue losses in excess of £2bn ($3bn) over four...
Ace sells off ESIS
Ace Europe has sold is marine survey company, ESIS International to dedicated cargo services provider...