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Appointment at Aon
Following the transfer of Martin Wilcox to the Redhill Underwriting Centre, David Roberts has been ...
Directive ignorance highlighted
Insurers and brokers need to stop wondering about how they plan to work with fleet owners over the 4t...
Lloyd's launches claims centre
Lloyd's has opened a claims mediation centre to provide the London market with direct access to a c...
Storms return
Insurers said the cost of the storms that battered Britain this week, which claimed nine lives, cou...
Capita denies volume is only food and drink
Capita Insurance Services this week pointed to loss adjusting contracts wins with Diageo and United...
Events.
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Joan Beaven dies
Joan Beaven, Insurance Athletics Association secretary for the last 25 years, died last week. Ms Be...
Retailers asked to focus on anti-fraud initiative
Retailers are being asked to focus on a new anti-fraud initiative - Don't Stand 4 Fraud - which aim...
"Let's rewrite the rules"
Michael Taylor, vice chairman of Xchanging Ins-sure Services, emphasised that there remains a great...
NU risk plan set for January launch
Norwich Union hopes to use its new digital map of Great Britain, Next Map, to more accurately price...
Medico-Legal plans purchase after float
Personal injury reports specialist Medico-Legal Consultancy claims it will be well placed to make a...
Appointment at ISS Ark & General
Disaster recovery and business continuity management specialist ISS Ark & General has appointed Don...
Appointment at NFU Mutual
Kim Arif has taken up the position of deputy general manager finance with Stratford-upon-Avon-based...
Sherwood confirms closure of offices
Insurance software and solutions provider Sherwood has confirmed the closure of four of its offices...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths
This company supplies marketing services to the insurance industry and its web site is very distinc...
Cutting claims down to size
Although faring better than the employers' liability sector, personal lines insurers are facing their own problems, with floods, fraud and falling investment returns all denting profits. Rachel Gordon looks at the role of claims teams in cutting back on…
Name-dropping
Independent broker the Miller Insurance Group launched a 1000-strong balloon race outside Lloyd's t...
Plea from Lloyd's worldwide markets director
The insurance cycle is the source of the industry's ills and is the reason investors are willing to...
View from the Top - Duncan Boyle, chief executive, Royal & Sun Alliance UK
It is now over nine months since the Treasury announced that regulation of general insurance will b...
Trenwick no Lloyd's fears
Trenwick Managing Agents this week said there was no danger of it not participating in the Lloyd's ...
AWA moves into Europe
Allied World Assurance has set its sights on becoming a new European insurance force, with the open...
PYV set for acquisition
Lloyd's broker PYV is set to complete a "sizable acquisition" next week, following its parent, PYV ...
ABI set to fight travel opt-out
The Association of British Insurers is determined to fight its corner, following the government's consultation paper on regulation, as Katharine Braddick explains.
Travel agents' case is clear
The government may allow travel agents to fall outside the scope of general insurance sales regulation, to the dismay of the Consumers' Association and insurers. Riccardo Nardi puts the travel agents' case.