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LG turnover up.
City firm Lawrence Graham has recorded a significant increase in turnover for the last financial yea...
Claims managers of many talents.
In today's workplace, claims managers need a whole new set of qualities to help cope with their increasingly demanding roles, and top-level candidates are hard to find, says Richard Adams.
Turn to PeopleSoft.
PeopleSoft is to launch the PeopleSoft 8 Customer Relationship Management Beta Customer Programme. U...
Law courts put in the picture.
O'Shea v MGN and Free4Internet.net (Queen's Bench Division - 4 May 2001).
Tough lessons to learn on school staff liability.
Lister v Hesley Hall (House of Lords - 3 May 2001).
New risks must be addressed.
The trend towards increasing reliance on self-insurance among risk managers should be setting alarm b...
No win, no fee spotlight.
The massive changes promoted by the Woolf Reforms are still being felt right across the insurance in...
London Market faces call for reform.
The London Market is facing a water-shed as David Worsfold discovered at last week's Post Magazine conference.
Appointment at Crutes.
Louise Dack, who had worked as a secretary for Crutes for 10 years and then switched to work on the ...
DLA may drop PI.
Law firm DLA is considering ditching its current professional indemnity arrangements in the commerci...
Exaxe to attack UK market.
Irish IT consulting and software development company Exaxe is gearing up for an assault on the UK ma...
Legal focus on real world of risk.
The landscape of the risk environment is changing as newer speculative risks replace the older more traditional ones. Maurice Pullen looks at the legal impact of this.
Axa makes outsourcing deal.
Axa has said no job losses will result from its decision to outsource the day-to-day management of i...
Good to talk.
With the Airmic conference only days away, Anthony Gould takes a look at the main topics up for discussion and explains why communication is the key to successful risk management.
Adjuster Resolve sold to consultancy.
Loss adjuster Resolve International has been acquired by Charles Taylor Consulting, a publicly-traded...
Global village.
Online risk management has not been as effective as had been expected, though a new generation of applications intends to change this by offering narrower searches and a wider global reach, says Jonathan Swift.
Ignorance not bliss for producers.
Ignorance of a defect does not protect a producer if the defect is discovered, the Court of Appeal r...
What the Papers Say.
Financial Times The increasing numbers of mountain bikers suffering serious injury has raised fea...
Urge for quality not quantity.
A key issue for brokers is quality of people, said Nigel Roberts, managing director of Aon Specialit...
Appointment at ItemPlus Consulting.
ItemPlus Consulting has recruited Mike O'Hehir to its team. He joins from CGNU and also gained indus...
Supporting age-old scourge of uninsured drivers.
Twenty five years ago, an attempt to was made to stop the scourge of uninsured drivers as reported i...
Claims to face the biggest changes of all.
Some of the biggest changes in market practice are in the area of claims, the conference heard. M...
Wragge rises.
Law firm Wragge & Co has increased its turnover for the year ended 30 April 2001 by 40% to £76.3m. T...
Off-road campaign.
Universal Salvage has collected over 1000 signatures for its petitition as part of a campaign launch...