News
Appointment at Reliance National Insurance (Europe).
Paul Fillbrook has joined the London office of Reliance National Insurance (Europe). He takes up the...
Interactive broking.
The Internet consultancy for intermediaries, icons@csc, has teamed up with Evesham Insurance Centre ...
General industry strong in GISC.
Bryan Whicher's letter (Insurers must be scrutinised, Post Magazine 27 January, p16) concerns me as ...
Protection money.
Scottish Provident's new business figures for the year to 31 December 1999 show a rise of over 48% i...
Insurer joins lawsuit.
Another major insurance company has joined as co-plaintiff in a pending lawsuit by two subsidiaries ...
Net consortium.
A consortium of leading IT players has been formed to enable mutual funds to be traded over the Inte...
Government ready to offer earthquake cover.
The Taiwanese authorities are planning to set up a government-backed scheme to offer earthquake cove...
Expedient history.
The Claims Underwriting Exchange database is set for considerable expansion following the acquisitio...
Tissue factory inferno sparks off legal fight.
Independent Insurance, a Lloyd's underwriter and a Birmingham broker have become embroiled in a £10m...
Travel insurer Options' recommendations.
Tourist mecca Majorca has been given a far from clean bill of health by direct travel insurer Option...
Weather mis-cast.
A new £25m super-computer, which US government weather forecasters boasted could predict hostile wea...
£4.5m bid to be UK's first virtual IFA.
An independent financial adviser network is investing £4.5m in new technology in a bid to become the...
MVRA launches new standard.
A new quality standard has been launched by the Motor Vehicle Repairers Association in a bid to diff...
New multi-trip.
MRL Insurance has launched a new annual multi-trip insurance product. Underwritten by AIG it incl...
What's best when the worst happens?
Keith Sankey looks at critical illness cover and income protection and discovers why sales of one are taking off while the other is lagging behind.
Appointment at Miller Pycraft.
Miller Pycraft has made several promotions. Graeme Bell and Gary Liptrot have been made advanced dev...
Exploiting chances.
A report by market analyst Datamonitor has revealed that lenders offering loan protection insurance ...
Expansion in Tokyo.
Herbert Smith has recruited an established local team of lawyers to boost its new Tokyo office. S...
Reinventing the Corporation is a must.
Lloyd's continues to re-invent itself and so it should. The recent announcement that the corporation...
National network.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Ellis & Buckle next week centralises its Home Services adjuster field force...
New fog clearing device.
A new fog clearing device could stop insurers getting misty eyed over cloudy claims. The Dry Ice Spr...
Policy Management Systems Corporation name change.
Policy Management Systems Corporation is changing its name to Mynd, unifying PMSC and all of its dom...
... a personal lines underwriter.
In the first part of a new series, Jonathan Swift spent a day with Hiscox's Austyn Tusler to find out what a personal lines underwriter gets up to ...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
John Beston has been appointed as motor fleet manager for Ecclesiastical Insurance. He will be based...