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AIG muscles in on pensions with $18bn takeover.
The largest US Property and causality insurer AIG has entered the pensions market with the $18bn (£1...
Appointment at Davies Wallis Foyster.
DWF Solicitors has appointed four new staff. Tom Myles and Peter Holland and Mark Rowlinson all join...
CIA Medianwork wins battle.
Advertising agency CIA Medianwork has won an £8m battle with the media agency which handled General ...
European Athletic Championships.
Iron Trades business administrator Joice Maduaka was part of the triumphant British team at last wee...
Scheme attempts to boost broker business.
Lombard General Insurance has launched a scheme to help its supporting brokers and intermediaries ge...
Appointment at the Insurance Institute of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Ed Butler, a director of Cunningham Group, has been elected president of the Insurance Institute of ...
Preparing for total recall.
Withdrawal of a product is an expensive business in terms of profitability and brand value. Graeme Berry considers the financial risks of a product recall and the role of insurance in managing these risks.
Day trippers.
Zurich Municipal has taken steps to stop local authorities being tripped up over claims relating to ...
Appointment at FarmWeb.
Elaine Pyke is the new chief executive of UK farm insurance specialists FarmWeb. She joins the compa...
RSA's £3m server bill.
Royal & SunAlliance has invested over £3m in four NUMA-Q 2000 servers from Sequent. The deal represe...
Washing away fears at a snip.
Hairdressers need not go grey worrying about insurance following the launch of Salon Star. The sp...
What the papers say.
DAILY EXPRESS The Prudential has been rapped by watchdogs after it admitted that 1300 of its sale...
Where premium rates will be taboo.
On 14 September delegates from around the world will gather in Lisbon for the annual Conference of I...
Figures search for the meaning of life.
Number of life office sales people has dropped by more than half since 1992.
Axa sees income drop.
Axa's German operation Axa Colonia announced last week that its premium income eased in the first ha...
Acquisition details.
Limit has announced the details of the acquisition of the remaining capacity for Bankside and Janson...
London's first art cafe.
Cappuccino and contemporary art, both are on the menu at London's first art cafe. Situated on the gr...
Appointment at the Bradford Insurance Institute.
Robin Nathaniel has become president of the Bradford Insurance Institute. Mr Nathaniel, a litigation...
Newman-Young joins HartRe in London.
Following the resignation of John Donahue, long-time chairman of HartRe, Nicholas Newman-Young has j...
£1.2bn to create a very big Mac.
J&H Marsh & McLennan launched a £1.247bn bid for broker Sedgwick in a deal which would cement J&H as...
Advantage to NIG.
NIG Skandia's screen based home product 'Advantage' is now available on all major software systems f...
Adam puts his foot down in driving rain.
Despite dramatically spinning off into gravel on a dangerously rain-soaked Silverstone track, the Ev...
United States ahead of Europe with EMU preparations.
More American businesses are ready for the implementation of the EMU than European ones. The resu...
Preferential rates for home buyers.
Select & Protect has offered preferential insurance cover with premium rates to people buying homes ...