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£2m campaign.
Direct Line is to spend £2m in the first three months of 2000 to market its website, directline.com....
Swiss Re agrees buy.
Swiss Re has agreed to buy US property and casualty reinsurer Underwriters Re Group from Alleghany C...
InsuranceWide.Com.
UK Internet business Freeserve, GlobalNetFinancial.com and Cox Insurance have teamed up to develop I...
CGU presentation.
Former European 400m champion and Olympic silver medalist Roger Black passed on some of his motivati...
AA's new quotes.
The AA has launched new business quotations for all its 15 home insurers on Polaris. It follows the ...
Axa cut off date.
Axa Health is to stop writing new business under its own brand from the start of the year. It will c...
Axa charts new P&I route.
Axa Global Risks has launched its fixed premium Protection & Indemnity insurance business in a direc...
Appointment at Hibernian Group
Gary Owens has been made an executive director of Hibernian Group and also managing director of Hibe...
Flotation on hold.
Plans to float insurance solutions provider Experian have been put on hold after its parent company ...
Indy five defect to Underwriter.
Independent's London Market professional indemnity team has walked out to join new insurer Underwrit...
Appointment at Allan Chapman & James.
Allan Chapman & James has appointed Louise Miller as senior sales executive on its new business team...
A question of interpretation.
Mark Baylis gives his response to a letter from Alan Burtonshaw, client manager, Swiss Re, carried in last week's Post Magazine explaining why the company was unhappy with some aspects of the Code of Best Practice on rehabilitation.
Penny Black's insurance week.
At AIRMIC's 36th annual dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel last week, Jonathan Bloomer, deputy grou...
Internet test in an Instant.
Software consultancy firm Reasoning has launched an Internet-based product that tests insurers' prog...
Cable car cash.
Families of the 20 people who died when a US Marines jet clipped a cable car line in the Alps are se...
Suomi fights back.
Trustees of policyholders in Finnish mutual life insurer Suomi have backed the board's plans to resu...
Exclusion zone.
Combating financial and social exclusion is hampered by moves to address fraud. Stuart Cliffe loo...
Insurance database.
Cio Connect has teamed up with business information specialists Shilito Market Intelligence to set u...
Appointment at HSBC Select.
Nick Weaver has been recruited as a director of HSBC Select, the national telephone broking division...
Marsh's new office in Cardiff.
The first secretary of the National Assembly for Wales, Alun Michael MP (second right), has welcomed...
£1.25bn payouts.
Equitas, the company established to reinsure and run-off the massive pre-1992 liabilites of Lloyd's ...
Can't cope, won't cope.
Work-related stress has hit the headlines again, with an estimated one in three 16-24 year olds stressed at work. Unfortunately many employers seem unable or unwilling to recognise the importance of dealing with stress. Deborah Edwards reports.
Appointment at Old Mutual.
Jim Sutcliffe will be joining the board of Old Mutual as chief executive. He will be responsible ...
The Renaissance Insurance Group.
The Renaissance Insurance Group (RIG) has launched what is thought to be Russia's first on-line insu...