News
Appointment at RE Brown & Others.
Edward Beckwith has joined RE Brown & Others Syndicate 702 as a professional and financial risk unde...
Pope spreads work of St Paul.
Underwriter Martin Pope began writing business this week from Box 244 for St Paul Syndicate Manageme...
Travel firms accused of 'back door tactics'.
UK holidaymakers are still being sold inappropriate and over-priced holiday cover according to insur...
Estonian plan.
Broker Aon aims to seize a 40% share of the Estonian insurance brokerage market by 2003. Aon took...
Out to court favour.
Australian financial services giant NRMA is to seek approval from the Supreme Court to float its ins...
Dutch merger gets EC approval.
The European Commission has approved the merger of Dutch insurers Delta Lloyd Verzekeringsgroep NV a...
Supply must meet demand for rehabilitation to succeed.
The news that attempts are being made to set up a UK society for case managers is welcome indeed. As...
Business of £9bn.
New individual life insurance, pensions and savings business written by members of the Association o...
Steering committee to tackle IFAs' needs.
A new steering committee has been formed to meet the growing regulatory needs for independent financ...
Aon forms risk team.
Aon is to establish a new risk benefits practice team from 1 January to cope with the growth in this...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill Engineering.
Phil Godwin has been promoted to business development manager by Allianz Cornhill Engineering. Previ...
Direct training.
Insurer Hastings Direct has launched a new claims negotiator training programme, developed in associ...
Guilty as charged.
The last paragraph of our legal report on the Equitable Life Assurance Society versus Human Chancery...
Scot Prov website.
Scottish Provident International has created a new website. Advisers and brokers can use The IFA Cen...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A driver who has lost an appeal against a careless driving conviction had a c...
Allstate set to axe 4000 jobs.
US insurance giant Allstate is to cut 4000 non-agent jobs in a bid to overhaul its distribution netw...
First pasta post.
The Italian life and pensions market, which recently introduced private pensions, is forecast to out...
No need for sensationalism.
In last week's issue you described me as "lashing out" at insurers for dumbing down the claims proce...
Pondering Paddington.
In the recent collision of two trains near Paddington Station, 31 people died and over 160 were inju...
Axa site proves big is not always best.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Size matters to Alan.
Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers is to move into a larger office, reflecting its recent growth. The No...
Getting a grip on complaints.
The Financial Services Authority's proposals for the new Ombudsman scheme, unveiled last week, have ...
Bid to bar merger.
Polish Insurer PZU has taken steps to stop the merger of the country's two largest banks. It is beli...
At breaking point.
As we approach the end of the 20th century it seems a good time to ask just how far the claims manag...