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Willis gets Mersey Blues as key Liverpool staff defect.
Liverpool broker Griffiths & Armour has snapped up two big hitters from rival Willis. Richard Tro...
Axa suspends two legal giants.
Axa has suspended two law firms on its legal panel after an audit revealed they had abandoned compan...
ZFS to make 400 jobless.
Nearly 400 UK jobs are to go at Zurich Financial Services after it announced the closure of four off...
Orbitex is top fund.
The Orbitex Exempt Balanced Fund, which is aimed at the UK institutional pension fund market, was th...
Good practice reduces regulation.
Good risk management practices will result in less regulation, according to Financial Services Autho...
Equitable Life to fight ruinous ruling.
Beleaguered mutual Equitable Life is fighting back after suffering a court reversal last week said t...
What the Papers Say.
SUNDAY EXPRESS A teenager who claims she was driven out of school by racist bullying is suing a c...
Insurers sign up.
Allianz, Aon, Axa, CGU, Generali and Marsh are among the insurers and intermediaries that have signe...
Britannic poised to bid for United.
Britannic Assurance is set to bid for United Assurance next month when the beleaguered door-to-door ...
CSC makes a date.
Broking systems provider Computer Sciences Corporation has said that it expects to have rolled out P...
London looks to brokers.
Lloyd's has turned its sights to brokers with a half-a-million pound advertising campaign commencing...
Virgin firms in tax probe.
Four international adjusting firms operating in the Virgin Islands have been investigated for allege...
Henri takes Axa job.
Axa supremo Claude Bebear is to hand over the reins of France's biggest insurer Axa to his deputy. T...
Deal puts syndicate at risk.
SmithKline Beecham's captive syndicate 1250 at Lloyd's could be under threat following the pharmaceu...
Public backs calls for PMI to bail out NHS.
The public believes the private medical sector is the answer to the current National Health Service ...
Polygon adds further side to Lambourn.
Specialist London market outsourced services provider Lambourn Insurance Services has been sold to t...
Norkom on its way to US after £3m cash injection.
Dublin's Norkom Technologies is to expand in the US on the back of a further equity investment of $3...
The big house loan.
E-loan, one of the biggest mortgage brokers in the US, opened for business in the UK this week. Inte...
Risk of legal mauling in blackboard jungle.
If 'Fat Owl' Billy Bunter was munching his way around Greyfriars today it's possible his indulgent p...
Damages for loss of motherly love.
Earley v North Middlesex NHS Hospital Trust High Court 13 December 1999 A six year old boy w...
Exclusive - Eastgate gets head start in after-the-event cover.
Legal expenses specialist Eastgate Assistance has launched a pre-emptive strike on the after-the-eve...
ERC claims first.
Munich-based reinsurer ERC Frankona has launched what it claims is the world's first completely web-...
Equitable's rivals are real winners of case.
Equitable Life's future is once again in the balance following the Court of Appeal's ruling last wee...
DBS expands online.
Independent financial adviser network DBS is to extend its e-commerce activities with a new, online ...