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Four grade II listed buildings caught fire.
Four grade II listed buildings had their chips when a fire swept along an historic terrace in Headco...
Insurers act in wake of NATO blitz.
NATO air strikes in the Balkans have sent a shockwave through the London insurance markets. The L...
Euro body's all-for-one, one-for-all move.
A pan-European insurance industry trade association has moved to block individual countries negotiat...
Above average for underwriters.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Mainstay secured in Sussex.
A new brokerage hopes to make waves after the coastal consolidation of three Sussex firms. The Ma...
Y2K lives on.
Only half the brokers surveyed by the Association of British Insurers have confirmed that they are Y...
Irons Trades outsources all household claims.
Iron Trades has struck an exclusive deal with McLarens Toplis to outsource all household claims. ...
Exclusive - Motor holiday site gears up for launch.
Software support firm Data Matters is working on a specialist motoring holiday website which is due ...
A right royal excuse for not paying out.
Having been in the claims industry for over 16 years I thought that I had heard and seen everything....
Drive to stem road deaths.
A new driver safety award has been launched after a study found company car and van drivers face the...
Protection failing.
Legislation introduced last November to protect holidaymakers from insurance rip-offs by travel agen...
Appointment at Cornhill Insurance.
As part of Cornhill's corporate restructure, which sees its UK branch division renamed Allianz Cornh...
Five major mutual life insurers to go public.
At least five major Canadian mutual life insurers are poised to go public later this year. Mutual Li...
Most top firms favour ART.
The majority of FT200 companies now use alternative risk transfer products, with self-insurance by f...
Stakeholders slated.
A consumer watchdog has blasted the government's stakeholder pensions proposals and urged it to impl...
Liver shuts door.
Royal Liver is the latest company to walk away from door-to-door policy selling. The friendly societ...
Exclusive - Jailed for eight years.
The remaining members of a nine-man fraud gang responsible for the theft of £1.4m worth of motor veh...
Appointment at Ward Evan Group.
Several appointments have been made by Ward Evans Group to its corporate insurance broking arm. Susa...
Race against time.
Updating IT sytems is an integral part of being ready for the Woolf reforms. Alex Miller finds that some companies are keeping pace while others are lagging behind.
Fishers out to buy.
Fishers international, the insurance services company, is set to cast its net wider is search of fur...
Happy as a pig in.
Wiltshire farmer Richard Gordon emerged smelling of roses when Q Farms settled his insurance claim i...
Call for change.
The civil litigation climate is set to change radically on 26 April. Alex Broad analyses the rationale for Lord Woolf's reforms and their intended impact.
Merger results in 22 centre closures.
Twenty-two UK service centres have disappeared following the merger of Miller Adjusters and Pycraft ...
Mergers to pick up.
The pace of merger and acquisition activity in Europe's property and casualty and reinsurance market...