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Bias at awards.
For the second time in three years, David Simpson, head of Leicester-based Bias, has won the Bland B...
Firms fined by PIA.
The Personal Investment Authority has fined Essex-based Burke Ford Financial Services £35,000 and or...
The name of the game.
Financial services companies are the new stars of track and field sponsorship. Jonathan Guy explains why the sporting life suits them down to the ground.
Commentary - Time to tackle football claims.
In recent years, actions by one footballer against another over an alleged career-ending tackle have...
China in its hand.
McLarens Toplis has opened an office in Guangzhou, China. This consolidates the loss adjuster's posi...
N&G agreed claim within a month.
A Hampshire boat builder, facing financial disaster following a fire at his yard, was on hand to acc...
EDI debut policy.
Cornhill is celebrating after it received the first commercial policy transmitted through its Gilt E...
Independent tweaks cover.
Independent Insurance has adapted its property owner portfolio in a bid to give its brokers the edge...
Ski deaths prompt 'no cover' warning.
Winter sports insurers have warned British skiers that they could invalidate their cover if they are...
Debit credits.
Insurer CGU has claimed one and a half million of its general insurance policyholders paid by direct...
Sting in the bug's tail.
Surely all those compliance forms will protect insurers? Not so says Richard Radevsky, who explains that long after the last bug confuses a computer, insurers will remain exposed to millennium losses.
Insurers' double-act snares £6m conmen.
CGU and Cunningham Ellis & Buckle joined forces to bust a pair of thieves responsible for stealing o...
Law speeds up union recognition.
Gordon Noble gives a trade union perspective on how the relationship between the insurance industry and unions will pan out following the publication of the Employment Relations Bill.
Share Watch.
Now that the dust has settled and Axa has emerged the victor in the auction for Guardian Royal Excha...
Arson cases fell in 1997.
The number of arson cases fell in 1997 for the first time in a decade. But the bad news for insurers...
Why we are letting down the customer.
I was interested to read 'A thorough cheque-up' (PM 21 Jan pp24/25). The question of replacement ...
Club Direct to cash in on weekend breaks.
Club Direct is looking to cash in on Valentine's Day trippers with its full insurance cover for week...
Audatex launches 'AudaWorkstation'.
Computer estimating systems provider Audatex has launched its 'one box' estimating system 'AudaWorks...
Profits Pole jump.
Despite increased competition, Poland's largest life insurer has announced it is satisfied with its ...
Broker makes its mark with tattooist cover.
A West Country broker has drawn up a policy to protect tattooists and body piercers sued by disgrunt...
Rebound hits insurance stocks.
Notwithstanding the recent worries caused by the crisis in Brazil, the rebound in world equity marke...
Appointment at Pycraft & Arnold.
Pycraft & Arnold has promoted its client services director Colin Heap to its management board....
Adjuster optimistic about 'quake damage.
International loss adjuster Crawford THG has said that despite January's earthquake, it believes bus...
Appointment at Saga Group.
Saga Group, the provider of services to the over-50s, has appointed Andrew Goodsell as managing dire...