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Duncan Flack appears on Blind Date.
London market insurance broker Duncan Flack provided the Blind Date audience with a lorra laffs when...
Whose line is it anyway.
Aon Risk Services distribution policy means that its involvement in personal lines business is hidden by someone else's brand name. Shona Cronin reports.
AMP must be boardroom bully to remain in control.
Australian insurer AMP's hostile takeover of general insurance operation GIO has left it with just u...
Rise in pension action.
Litigation about pension schemes is on the increase according to law firm Dibb Lupton Alsop. That wa...
Insurers get in a lather over soap.
Insurance representatives have criticised Coronation Street scriptwriters for "scaremongering" over ...
Aon report calls for SIF mutual fund as market protection.
The solicitors Indemnity Fund has welcomed the news that some form of mutual fund should be retained...
Negotiating the troubled waters of marine risk.
I refer to your Comment 'Voyage of discovery needed in marine market' (PM, 3 Dec, p21), in which you...
Website focuses on legal settlements.
Accountancy firm Latham Crossley & Davis has set up what it believes is the first web site for struc...
Keep it simple advice.
Insurers have been warned if their products are to be sold successfully over the Internet they need ...
Crowded market blamed for Liberty Re shutdown.
The Liberty Mutual Group has scrapped its UK reinsurance subsidiary Liberty Re, despite spending £25...
HQ to be Worthing.
The integration of ITT London & Edinburgh and Norwich Union has stepped up a gear with the announcem...
Exclusive - Testing time for CMG.
IT Services company CMG has launched a testing device for insurers who need to develop systems which...
What the papers say.
DAILY STAR Travel insurers flew 12 randy Brits home last year because they had overdosed on Viagr...
Unethical accusation.
Mortgage providers which include compulsory insurance policies have been slammed as "unethical" by t...
Breakthrough in storm prediction.
British scientists have devised a method of predicting American hurricanes, which they claim will sa...
Diamond idea.
EDI products Countrywide Shop and Countrywide Restaurant are now available on a new business EDI-bas...
Conmen face 15 years in jail under anti-fraud law.
Washington DC City Council has unanimously approved a bill which makes insurance fraud a crime carry...
Bad adjusting practices leave fraudsters at large.
I was taken aback by the terminology employed in the reporting of Cunningham E&B's loss of the Guard...
Bonus from Friends.
Friends Provident announced its bonus declaration for 1998 this week. With-profit endowment policyho...
Darling has Field-day.
The government has declined an invitation from former welfare reform minister Frank Field to publish...
Co-op's business boost.
Co-operative Insurance saw its new life assurance, pensions and unit trust business increase by 21% ...
Legal actions: hidden minefields.
How often have we all read warnings about the increasingly litigious nature of society and how much ...
Ex-Cunningham trio prepare to go it alone.
Three former Cunningham chiefs have, this week, set up their own loss adjusting business promising t...
The artful Dodger.
Los Angeles Dodger superstar Kevin Brown might have one of the deadliest arms in the game, but as ye...