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First of many rehab centres.
A new rehabilitation centre plans to guarantee people get back to work - or it will give insurers th...
Hiscox awarded.
A-Rating agency AM Best has awarded Hiscox Insurance a credit rating of A- (excellent) and has upgra...
Newcomer to commercial lines.
Paul Saffer, a former director of Rebus and NetSoft, has founded a new company designed to facilitat...
Make everyone pay for state care, says ex-DSS chief.
Radical plans for a compulsory new state personal care insurance system, with a key role for private...
MiniBusPlus to expand into e-commerce.
Minibus and fleet insurance specialist MiniBusPlus has restructured its systems team to complement t...
Polarisation decision a year away at the earliest.
Any decision on polarisation is not likely until 2001 at the earliest, according to a Treasury insid...
Web warning.
Household insurers must avoid e-commerce complacency, according to consultants Bacon & Woodrow. Seni...
Five forced into run-off.
Five Lloyd's syndicates are being forced into run-off following US insurer Unum Provident's decision...
Re-entering the space debate.
I am concerned at several statements attributed to SBW in your story 'Lloyd's facing black hole in s...
US giant picks NU.
America's fourth largest credit card issuer, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co, has chosen Norwich Uni...
Mapping and web.
Giant Italian insurer Assitalia aims to put its brokers on the map with the launch of its website de...
Buy affects profits.
Berkshire Hathaway's acquisition of General Re has been blamed for hurting its third-quarter returns...
Appointment at Prime Health.
Philip Wright has been appointed to the board of Standard Life's private medical insurance subsidiar...
£393m for SVB.
Lloyd's managing agency SVB Syndicates, a subsidiary of SVB Holdings, has announced capacity under m...
Axe to fall on direct sales.
Door-to-door insurers are ready to follow the lead given by Prudential which is to scrap its direct ...
Obvious route to leave behind financial exclusion.
With reference to your lead story 'Key roll for insurers in drive to help poor' (PM 18 November, p1)...
Tony Boorman to be new Insurance Ombudsman.
Tony Boorman is to be the new Insurance Ombudsman as part of the arrangements for the Financial Serv...
Italy.
The Italian cabinet has approved legislation to require insurers to come up with standard motor liab...
Breaking the lore.
The shape of the legal expenses insurance market is changing and in ways that some of the sector's major players believe are not for the better. Marcus Alcock investigates.
Time to put words into action.
The UK has a shameful record on getting seriously injured people back to work. This has a huge hu...
Post Magazine Management Briefing.
The State of the Market' was the title of the most recent Post Magazine Management Briefing, sponsor...
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Appointment at Independent Insurance
Steven Nightingale has joined Independent Insurance as senior sales inspector at its Leicester offic...
Consequential loss axed in favour of business
The British Insurance Brokers Consequential Loss Society is to be overhauled. It has decided to chang...