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IIB repeats legal threat.
The Institute of Insurance Brokers has again indicated it could resort to legal action over the Gene...
New broker formed.
The corporate risks department of broker Layton Blackham have left to form their own brokerage. Alli...
Mobile way to buy insurance.
Customers could soon be able to buy insurance simply by using their mobile phone, thanks to the foun...
Appointment at Bacon & Woodrow.
Prudential's former group chief actuary Peter Nowell has joined Bacon & Woodrow as a new associate i...
Tory PMI tax plans slammed
Plans by the Conservative's to tax private medical insurance providers as a contribution towards the ...
Appointment at Bland Bankart.
William Blumson has been made development manager of the new business team at Bland Bankart. He join...
The X factor: the staff are out there.
Recruitment activity in general insurance is expected to change in 2000, as companies look for very specific skills. Gerard Bland and Carol Connolly explain what this will mean to employers.
Names to fight on.
The last major legal action against Lloyd's by disaffected Names faces an embarrassing setback after...
Holt moves up as Pain moves in.
Dennis Holt (above), currently managing director of Lloyds TSB Insurance, is to replace Gordon Pell ...
A year of two halves.
The new year celebrations have been brought rapidly down to earth with the latest figures on world insurance performance reports Peter Falush.
Lloyd's losses mount
Lloyd's is heading for its worst losses since the early 1990s according to insurance analyst Chatset....
Web's cash planner.
Prudential has updated its website for those people seeking information to help plan their personal ...
Free vouchers.
The Retirement Insurance Advisory Service is offering £50 travel vouchers with every quotation given...
Willis nets share.
Willis has bought a controlling share in Norway's biggest independent broker Sev Dahl's Assurancekon...
Chatset forecasts Lloyd's losses
Lloyd's is unlikely to return to a reasonable profit until 2002-03 and faces a loss of almost £500m (...
Lloyd's cements US relationship
Max Taylor, chairman of Lloyd's, has joined the board of US insurance communication organisation, The...
Travel agents not playing fair
Over a quarter of high street travel agents are hiding the real cost of insurance sold according to r...
Art attack over erroneous views
Art specialist, Axa Nordstern Art Insurance, has hit out at claims that insuring major works of art i...
Pension plans back on track
The insurance industry has welcomed the government's draft regulations on stakeholder pensions. The A...
Eagle Star's Digital channel
Direct insurer Eagle Star, part of Zurich Financial Services, is to launch an interactive Digital TV ...
Pain up at Lloyds TSB
Jon Pain is to replace Dennis Holt as managing director of Lloyds TSB Insurance following a managemen...
Zurich's Pope on mission
Bob Pope, marketing director of Zurich Commercial has been seconded from his post for the next six we...
CGU questioned over Nat West deal
CGU has been dragged into the debacle between the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland ove...
Pet practice leads to job cuts
Cornhill Insurance has confirmed it is to move the administration of DBI the pet insurance company it...