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city3k creates debt exchange.
Brit Insurance-backed technology firm city3k has launched a debt exchange for the reinsurance indust...
Graduating to better things?
In a bid to secure the highest quality graduates, insurers are having to fight hard in the recruitment arena. Richard Adams talks tactics and looks at the postgraduate packages on offer from some insurers.
The ABI responds to critics.
Tony Worthington's letter, (Post Magazine, 15 March, p16) asks several questions about Chester Stree...
Cost of failing to gather information.
Failures in basic information gathering are costing the insurance industry money, said Bob Barnett, ...
Boleat and Baker advise Claims Direct on recoverability.
Tony Baker and Mark Boleat, previously deputy director general and director general of the Associati...
Health and Safety CD-Rom.
Royal & Sun Alliance, with the Health & Safety Executive, have developed a new risk management tool....
Zurich downbeat about 2001
Zurich Financial Services has posted disappointing results for 2000 with a 5.5% decline in profit. Th...
Appointment at TT Club.
Andreas Mueller has become the TT Club's underwriting and sales director for Asia Pacific. He will w...
NIG has Advantage.
Broker-only insurer NIG's home screen-driven product Advantage Select is now available to intermedia...
P&C builds team.
Loss adjuster Property & Casualty Services has launched an eight-strong dedicated nationwide constru...
Fair claims service.
Insurance company claims departments are on the whole "fair, courteous and efficient", according to ...
Industry: failure to meet promises.
The industry must drastically improve its awareness of customer expectations, said Eddie Longworth, ...
Glazier cuts costs.
Emergency response glaziers Highway Glass & Locks has developed a new reconstruction service to redu...
Appointment at The Source.
Jane McGovern has been appointed divisional director of The Source Claim Support, the IT-related cla...
Zurich goes digital.
Zurich's commercial business unit has teamed up with digital business facilitator Entranet to help i...
Aspect expansion.
Aspect Software International, which provides eCRM applications for the insurance and banking sector...
Appointment at Adepta.
Adepta, the provider of outsourced administrative services to the life and pensions industry, has ta...
AA set to launch phone-based IFA operation.
The AA is set to launch a phone-based independent financial adviser operation next month to compleme...
Appointment at XL Brockbank.
Lloyd's managing agency XL Brockbank, a subsidiary of XL Capital, has appointed Paul Drake as underw...
Repairs slashed.
An internet-based system for trading repairer capacity could revolutionise the way motor insurance c...
Appointment at Combined Insurance.
Combined Insurance, an underwriting subsidiary of Aon Corporation, has promoted Clive Robinson to th...
Orphan investigated.
Royal London is to investigate the possibility of unlocking the orphan estate of one of its subsidia...
Names: Lloyd's to send in bailiffs.
Lloyd's looks set to call in the bailiffs within weeks, following a mass snub of its latest settleme...
Central reservations.
Call centres have answered the public's call for 24-hour service from insurers. However, the cracks are beginning to show and critics believe the integration of systems has fallen short in the rush to provide a solution, says David Fanning.