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Irish merger sees big two become one.
The biggest life insurance operation in Ireland is to merge with the leading mortgage lender in the ...
Merging in May.
A new firm, Vizards Staples & Bannisters, will be formed on 1 May next year following the merger of ...
Primechoice: now you can have fun on the piste.
Primechoice, Royal & SunAlliance's high net worth subsidiary, is to launch a new travel product at t...
Appointment at Lloyd's TSB General Insurance.
Andy Smyth has been appointed as head of the insurance risk management department at Lloyd's TSB Gen...
Eagle Star to scrap proposal forms for commercial business.
Brokers are to be spared the arduous task of ploughing through paperwork now that Eagle Star has dec...
Industry must avoid genetics slip-up.
One of the looming issues for the insurance industry in 1999 is genetic testing. Most people in t...
Exclusive - Call centre opens in Crawford shake-up.
Loss adjuster Crawford THG has opened a round-the-clock call centre in Birmingham and is splashing o...
Post's Christmas and New Year copy deadlines.
Next week's issue of Post Magazine will be published one day early, on Wednesday 23 December, and wi...
Woman accused of mass murder to collect on life policies.
Japanese insurers are reeling from the news that an insurance saleswoman embarked on a mass murder s...
Leeds link for Norwich.
Norwich Union is set to underwrite creditor insurance for the Leeds and Holbeck building Society fro...
Facing up to fraud ... at last.
Fraud, fraud, fraud. Sometimes it seems that is all we write about. That may be because it is one...
Industry urged to fight genetic discrimination.
Families with known genetic disorders are being discriminated against by insurers, according to a ne...
Appointment at Hayes.
Marine insurance and shipping solicitor Barry Hayes has formed a new law firm, Hayes, which is based...
Appointment at St Paul International.
Sean Marson has joined St Paul International as a regional underwriter to concentrate on serving bro...
Appointment at Davies Arnold Cooper.
Phil Jepson has been made a partner in the Manchester office of Davies Arnold Cooper. He will be hea...
Petrol shortage is good news for insurers.
In the wake of the Arab-Israeli conflicts of the early 1970s, the oil price shot up and supplies to ...
GAN - new policies motor into the future.
GAN is to launch a new and improved range of motor policies, next month after consulting its interme...
Met Life plans to go public and raise £8.5bn from IPO.
Giant American insurer Metropolitan Life, the second largest US life insurer, will distribute stock ...
Internal fraud costing millions.
The head of the City of London Fraud squad has warned insurers that fraudulent behaviour among its o...
Choosing a bond.
More construction companies are heading to insurance companies for their bonds. Keith Baxter explains the decisions behind choosing a bondsman.
£2bn fees for anti-tobacco lawyers.
Five Texas lawyers have earned a record £2bn in fees for a $17.3bn lawsuit against the tobacco indus...
Direct Line stands firm with Equifax.
Direct Line has signed a three-year contract with information solutions provider Equifax to use the ...
A matter of principles.
A set of principles and procedures for preventing and resolving Y2K disputes was launched last week....
French SCOR in Russia.
French reinsurance giant SCOR last week announced it had opened a new office in Moscow in line with ...