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Maximising potential.
In his spare time Eastgate Assistance's chief executive Max Carruthers is a sailing addict, and Alex Broad discovers he has plans to make waves in his professional world as well.
Gold fever strikes.
A feud between eight insurers and the recoverer of a sunken gold cargo worth millions of dollars has...
Appointment at Co-operative Insurance Society.
CIS has appointed Laverne Picart and Rosemary Francis to its investment team as corporate affairs in...
Logging healthy response times.
Ambulance services could face a huge increase in claims from patients if they fail to respond prompt...
Appointment at Joslin Rowe.
Buffy Stock has been appointed as director of Joslin Rowe's insurance division. She joins from City ...
No duty of care for loss of gutted building.
Bellefield Computer Services v E Turner & Sons 28 January 2000 Court of Appeal The claimant ...
Ready for take off.
Brendan Lawlor says that firms in the credit and trade finance market should have their staff ready to deal with a boom in the sector.
Newcomer's gain.
Insurance intermediary BDML Connect has concluded its first full year of business with the announcem...
Claimant fails to beat payment into court.
Burgess v British Steel and another 19 January 2000. Court of Appeal The claimant failed to bea...
Trusted facts.
Pension fund trustees can access their own portfolio information via their fund manager's website, b...
Primary Insurance warns of "slope rage".
It is not always smiles on the slopes according to travel insurer Primary Insurance. The insurer war...
Scandal in the air.
General insurance is heading for a potential mis-selling scandal, according to the Institute of Actu...
Appointment at The Loss Recovery Group.
The Loss Recovery Group has promoted Emma Viney ACII to the position of development manager....
Long road yet to agreement.
The assertion in your article 'Legal bodies to slash costs' (Post Magazine 3 February, p11) is prema...
Investment stars for twilight years.
There are now more products available on the retirement income scene than ever before, but as Keith Sankey discovers, many of them do not come without an element of risk attached.
Pensions race a non-starter for some.
Last week's gathering of life insurers and intermediaries in London (see p6) saw the issue of how to...
Britannic takes up tele-challenge.
Britannic Assurance is to make a serious push into the general insurance market in partnership with ...
Plugging the leaks.
Some shortfall in claims handling experience is starting to show. Steve Banner finds out how much of the outsourcing of claims handling was triggered by the Woolf reforms to civil litigation procedure.
Exclusive - Axa extranet targets brokers.
Axa Insurance is to launch an extranet site for brokers later this year with the emphasis on busines...
Lark flies merged nest.
Lloyd's broker Lark Insurance is to sever its 30-year ties with Sedgwick UK Risk Services - now part...
UA in union talks over sales pay.
MSF union representatives have met with their United Assurance counterparts to resolve the issue of ...
Willis circles airports.
Willis is confident of landing new business with an integrated risk management solution for airports...
Bodyshops planned.
Former Eagle Star personal lines finance director Brian Pursey plans to have a network of 50 bodysho...
Easy on the prying.
Lloyd's broker PYV has devised a new high value death-in-service policy which it claims does not req...