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Where's industry pride?
First it's FIMBRA, then it's PIA (same people, same rubbish, different letter heading) then it's FSA...
Unitas makes Irish signing.
Broker network Unitas has signed up Northern Irish intermediary Bartholomew & James as its latest me...
Appointment at Royal & Sun Alliance.
Duncan Finch has been made finance director of UK personal at Royal & Sun Alliance. He joins from th...
Appointment at Insurance Services Office (ISO).
Provider of insurance claims services and information about property and liability risk Insurance Se...
Regency reveals five-year plan.
Regency Insurance Brokers this week said it aimed to have a net annual premium of £200m, and a staff...
Appointment at QBE International Insurance.
QBE International Insurance has made two new appointments Dagmar Bohning and Barry Robinson, who joi...
Bupa: trial move to India.
Health insurer Bupa is trialling an outsourcing move to India, which may lead to much of the provide...
Appointment at Bollington Group.
Macclesfield based Bollington Group has promoted several members of its staff. Andy Large becomes te...
Miller nets losses.
Miller Fisher Group expects to make an operating loss for 2001. In a statement it said: "Trading con...
Financial options.
Bob Kerzner, executive vice president and director of Hartford Life's individual life division, has ...
Cox ups WTC loss.
Lloyd's insurer Cox Insurance has increased its estimate of losses arising from the World Trade Cent...
CII should register members' CPD.
Now the government has decided the Financial Services Authority is to be the sole regulatory body, i...
Be on the Safe side.
Developer of digital risk insurance Safeonline, has launched SafeEnterprise, its errors and omission...
The bitterest pill.
Post-Shipman, medical bodies are keen to protect themselves should the issue of medical malpractice come up. And with the number of reported cases rising, insurers offering this cover are starting to withdraw from the market. Simon Threadgold wonders…
Mould on course.
A series of courses tackling the problem of mould remediation and prevention began in Bolton this we...
GAB recruits rivals' engineers.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins has lured three chartered engineers away from rivals, alongside two other re...
Pru reports rise.
Prudential recorded a 54% increase in insurance and investment sales for the total group in 2001 of ...
BIBA to set up virtual network.
The British Insurance Brokers Association is considering setting up a virtual compliance network, th...
Lloyd's great reformer?
Last week, Lloyd's unveiled its long-awaited plans to reform the market's funding. Marcus Alcock looks behind the headlines to discover what the proposals in the Bain Report mean for the market.
Sherwood to cut jobs in revamp.
Software provider Sherwood International is to cut jobs in a restructuring move to be finalised by t...
Damage link up plans shelved.
Plans for the British Damage Management Association, which has just appointed Chem-Dry UK chief exec...
Winds of change.
Despite the increasing threat of hurricane activity predicted by weather specialists, Eric Alexander finds insurers are adopting a wait-and-see approach and first addressing the problems of years of low rates.
Hyundai talks with AIG collapse.
US insurance giant AIG has ended its interest in buying a controlling stake in the the troubled fina...
What the Papers Say.
METRO An insurance worker has been given the task of sifting through more than 10 tons of earth -...