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Millennium Conference of LIA.
International sprinter and gold medal winner Kris Akabusi will share the secrets of his success as a...
Website fires up.
Disaster recovery specialist for documents and books, Hardwell Drying and Restoration Services, has ...
End of the roadshow for the GISC.
The General Insurance Standards Council wound up its series of roadshows to promote its second consu...
Appointment at The Recruitment Works.
A new recruitment consultancy for the insurance and financial services sector has opened in Scotland...
Broking plonk-ers.
The run-up to the millennium will be just luvvly bubbly for brokers submitting high volume premium f...
Shock as industry big guns quit.
The insurance sector has seen two shock resignations in the past week. Lloyd Hanks, managing dire...
Appointment at RJ Wallace Syndicates.
Bill Dyson has joined RJ Wallace Syndicates as professional indemnity underwriter. Previously he was...
The running man.
GAB Robins director Robert Binning put his athletic feet forward when he competed in the Dublin mara...
Insurer CGU renames in India.
Insurer CGU has renamed Commercial Union and General Accident to CGU Life Insurance and CGU General ...
Swiss Re's Internet exchange
Reinsurer Swiss Re has launched the Electronic Risk Exchange (ELRiX) which allows for standardised ri...
Building the links against fraud.
For years the public saw insurers as fair game for fraud. But now the realisation that fraud equals inflated premiums has changed their attitudes. Jonathan Swift finds out how insurers are closing the net on the conmen.
Wind and fire cut CGU profits.
Several heavy claims severely dented CGU's third quarter profits. The insurer said two of the wors...
All change.
Post Magazine's first survey of UK loss adjusters shows that many feel strongly about retaining thei...
Millennium Motor Spares signs up.
Millennium Motor Spares has signed up to eSalvage, an Internet-based service set up by Glass Informa...
Reliance shuts doors under pensions pressure
Reliance Mutual Insurance has closed to new business, blaming the cost of compensating victims of per...
Next-door nuisance.
A landlord was neither obliged to install sound insulation in an existing dwelling nor liable for da...
Be prepared.
The Institute of Financial Planning is holding a further series of CFP licence preparation days coun...
Appointment at Donns Solicitors.
Former head of commercial legal services at AA, Clive Robb, has joined Donns Solicitors as claims ma...
The word is there's too many words.
Axa got more than it bargained for with the acquisition of Guardian Royal Exchange. For GRE has nar...
Question marks over LIA/IFP deal.
The deal between the Life Insurance Association and the Institute of Financial Planning is hanging i...
Russia house backs legislation to keep out foreign insurers.
The upper house of Russia's parliament has thrown its weight behind the amended insurance Bill which...
DAS staff tackle army assault course for charity.
A team of staff from the Bristol head office of legal expenses insurer DAS helped raise £16,000 for ...
Broker weighs up the pros to help ex-cons.
A Lloyd's broker is helping former prisoners get back on the straight and narrow. Wakefield-based...
Virtual views.
Over half of those operating within the call centre industry believe a virtual call centre will repl...