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Fraudsters jailed.
Newport Crown Court has given a Royal & Sun Alliance policyholder a suspended sentence and her partn...
Lloyd's welcomes post-WTC failures.
Several Lloyd's syndicates will "inevitably" go under, as a result of losses sustained from the Worl...
Insurers team up in Bermuda.
Global insurance giants AIG and Chubb have teamed up with Goldman Sachs to form a new Bermuda-based ...
Primary to enter motor market.
The Primary Insurance Group is set to enter the motor market, after targeting acquisitions in the se...
LIS nets credit.
Lambourn Insurance Services has developed a web-enabled credit control system for reinsurance recove...
GAB to shed 70 staff nationwide.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins is making 70 of its 1000 staff redundant, primarily as a result of Norwich U...
Quest for new risk.
Liability adjusters the Quest Gates Partnership has launched a new risk management division. With he...
The funeral of Alan O'Brien.
The funeral of Alan O'Brien, founder of APN Insurance Services, will be held on Friday 2 November. A...
Munich Re could be set to takeover bank.
Speculation is mounting that Munich Re could be set to takeover Germany's second largest bank, the t...
Lincoln goes live.
Lincoln Financial Group has gone live with its revamped corporate website at www.lincolnuk.co.uk. Th...
Class action looms over Independent's commission.
Class Law is reluctantly preparing for a possible class action against Independent Insurance's provi...
Link future looks to be uncertain.
The future of Lloyd's retail motor insurer Link was again thrown into uncertainty this week, after i...
Strong point.
Despite a threat to the role of loss adjusters from solicitors in the liability adjusting sector, they have managed to hold their own in the market by playing to their strengths, says Veronica Cowan.
Directline moves into online claims.
Directline.com customers can now log home insurance claims online. The new claims registration facil...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Location, location, location. Stevenage Insurance Services was prominently pictured in the Evening...
Annabel trades places for new old masters.
Annabel Fell-Clark began her working life as a trader at the London Stock Exchange, but after a move into insurance, she has found her own niche and with it a greater sense of job satisfaction, says Richard Adams.
Write to reply.
As our lives become more hectic, many of us are turning to e-mail to contact call centres with our out-of-hours queries. Insurers could lose out if they do not get to grips with the electronic postal service, says Steve Payne.
Groupama cull.
Groupama has finished the year-long review of its loss adjusting panel, and has dropped three compan...
Motor breakthrough.
Insurers look set to end their long-running feud with bodyshops, after returning to the negotiation ...
Flood defence call.
This time last year, the government warned that adequate flood defences were unlikely to be installe...
View from the top - Patrick Snowball
Patrick Snowball, chief executive, Norwich Union Insurance. The demise of Independent Insurance gen...
Churchill looks set for Prudential swoop
Churchill Insurance is set to dip into its £500m war chest, if as predicted by Post Magazine, Prudent...
AIG income drops.
AIG's net income fell 81% to $327m (£226m) in its third quarter earnings, with the impact of the Ame...
SAP division targets UK insurers.
German technology giant SAP is to create a dedicated insurance division to target the UK general ins...