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Dexia buys into Ifax.
Franco Belgian financial services group Dexia has bought a 55% stake in French local government insu...
Snap, tackle and op.
Liability law has extended its net to catch more and more sports. Jonathan Swift goes fishing for the facts.
International bond.
Scottish Provident International has stepped into the high yield bond market with a new fund. Advise...
Axa motor claims shift up a gear.
AXA has linked its motor claims engineers' management system to the company mainframe so it can prov...
Cautious welcome to new health and safety rules.
Insurers have given a cautious welcome to new health and safety rules to cover the use of ancient we...
Tackling EL crisis.
Lombard General Insurance has launched a new information leaflet to inform policyholders about the r...
Industry must rise to home-buying challenges.
The government deserves credit for its initiative to tackle the chaotic and ludicrously out-dated sy...
Loss adjuster Miller to extend its service.
Loss adjuster Miller has announced that it is to extend its Repairline service to the whole of the U...
Barclays Bank has new venture in the Caribbean.
Barclays Bank is coconuts about its new offshore banking venture in the Caribbean. The initiative is...
Insurers react with caution.
Insurers have reacted with caution to a new move by the government to make buying a house quicker an...
The future is looking gloomy.
That's the conclusion of international rating agency Fitch IBCA after it carried out a review of the UK property damage market. Chris Klein explains why there is a storm brewing.
Tackling a changing landscape.
Devon and Cornwall have seen many insurers flee the region. Francis Higney visited those who have stayed to assess the state of play.
ABI looks to reinsurers for Y2K database.
The Association of British Insurers' year 2000 database is being broadened to include reinsurers fro...
Axa's contractor policy.
AXA Insurance has launched a policy designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of contractors...
ACE launches aviation division for high-fliers.
ACE USA has shuffled its cards and announced two new business ventures. Firstly, it has formed an...
Price still dictates where people go for insurance.
A national opinion poll has shown that over two thirds of people who changed their home insurance la...
Kidnapped' cabbie is subject of fraud probe.
Insurance claims investigators are probing a series of traffic accident claims made by a taxi driver...
Featherstone to retire.
Clive Featherstone, deputy chairman of Fishers International, is retiring from the company after 11 ...
Hike in car premiums.
The Slovenian government said it is set to increase car insurance policies by up to three per cent f...
Families to sue surgeon over pensioner's death.
Four New Zealand families are seeking £600,000 worth of damages and costs from a English surgeon aft...
Date for legal merger.
The merger between solicitors Beachcroft Stanleys and Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave is to go ahead fro...
Guardian's free e-mail.
Home and motor insurer Guardian Direct has become the first insurer to offer a free personal e-mail ...
Straight-talker moves on.
I see that Alan Fleming is on the move. The high-profile director of global risk management at Dia...
Tories and Lib Dems team up to scupper NHS Bill.
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have lined up in opposition against the government's Road Tr...