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Charity race for life.
Smith Mason Group's staff running team, officially known as the SMG Stars, took to their heals in ai...
Appointment at NIG.
NIG has made two new appointments within its commercial division. Peter Young becomes manager for bu...
RSA drops Direct.
Direct Line is confident of maintaining its position as the market leading direct writer despite Roy...
Oak: growing HNW.
HML Marketing has launched a new high net worth initiative in which it will provide HNW cover from O...
Fighting legal action.
The Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry has filed a response and counterclaims to the l...
Law: online advice.
Financial planning consultant Towry Law has unveiled a new information and advisory site to enable e...
Fusion set to capitalise on insurer's failure.
Lloyd's insurer SVB's subsidiary Fusion Insurance Services aims to capitalise on the failure of Inde...
Appointment at Royal & Sun Alliance.
Royal & Sun Alliance has made John Perera consultant marine surveyor in the UK Marine Practice. He j...
Albion ditched in Sterling move.
The Albion insurance name is set to disappear at the end of the month, as parent company Sterling Ins...
Tackling stress is a great relief.
As stress claims rise with the cultural move towards litigiousness, insurers are being forced to look to their own workforces as they tackle the problem head on. Richard Adams reports.
Lillian Boyle takes over at CII.
Lillian Boyle became the first female president of the Chartered Insurance Institute earlier than ex...
Fully mouse-trained?
The training sector has seen a cultural shift towards e-learning. And while both employee and employer gain from the benefits this form of tuition offers, companies ignore the value of the old tried and tested methods at their peril, warns Jane Bernstein.
Job losses are now inevitable.
There will "inevitably" be job losses at Independent, said provisional liquidator Pricewaterhouse Co...
What the Papers Say.
THE EXPRESS Soft-hearted Britons lavish £1bn a year on food and healthcare for their pets. The bi...
Engineering change.
As plant and equipment is upgraded and new legislation is introduced in engineering, insurers are having to devise new strategies and products to keep pace with the constant changes that have historically characterised this sector, says David Fanning.
Anti-bike theft scheme steered by Carole Nash.
Broker Carole Nash has launched a scheme to sell security products at discounted rates in a bid to h...
Mediquote set to expand and push into consumer market.
Mediquote, the comparative private medical insurance portal owned by software provider Sirius, is se...
Crunch time for Lloyd's.
Marcus Alcock reports on the Association of Lloyd's Members' national conference held in London last week.
Axa bosses under investigation.
Henri de Castries and Claude Bebear, present and previous chief executives of French insurer Axa, we...
Appointment at SMG Risk Managers.
Smithson Mason Financial Services has appointed two new account executives. Phil Dixon and Carol Cli...
WISe and ACORD to merge.
Standards bodies for the insurance industry WISe and ACORD are to merge and create a single non-prof...
Experian partnership.
Information solutions company Experian has entered into a strategic partnership with eCRM provider A...
Miller waits on Pearl.
Churchill has acquired the underwriting portfolio of Pearl's existing general insurance business in ...
Independent brokers look set to struggle to replace cover.
Fears were expressed this week that Independent Insurance's brokers might struggle to find replacemen...