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Appointment at BiB Underwriters.
Agricultural Insurance specialist BiB Underwriters has taken on a new operations manager to head up ...
When East meets West.
Long-term prospects for general insurance sales in Eastern Europe are looking promising. As these regions are poised on the brink of EU membership, Jeremy Golden looks at their markets and the compliance issues.
Businesses fail to rate internet risks.
US companies are continuing to under-estimate the risks associated with doing business via the inter...
Freed McLarens signs Capita deal.
Loss adjuster McLarens International has signed a new deal with outsourcing giant Capita, following ...
The FSTC launches new website.
The Financial Services Training College has launched a new website, www.fstcollege.com, to provide t...
September decision time for Lloyd's.
An emergency general meeting of Lloyd's Members to approve the final form of the Chairman's Strategy...
The CII say more practitioners complete qualifications.
The Chartered Insurance Institute this week said more insurance and financial services practitioners...
PwC confident of securing agreement.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the provisional liquidator of Independent Insurance, is "highly confident" t...
E&O: US lawsuit to find if regulatory fines are covered.
A lawsuit filed in New York is expected to rule on the key issue of whether regulatory fines can be ...
Appointment at 1st Software.
1st Software, the provider of integrated technology solutions to financial advisers and intermediari...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Rumours that Martin Long, the driving force behind Churchill Insurance, is taking a lighter hand on ...
Fraud articles tell same old story.
I read Michael Burnett's article (Industry must plug claims leakage now, PM, 7 June, p14) with incre...
Norwich Union axes 325 jobs in shake-up.
Norwich Union is to axe 325 jobs in a reorganisation of its national claims operation that will see 1...
AIG Star Life to reward ex-smokers.
AIG Star Life Insurance has launched a new cancer insurance policy featuring a maximum 31.8% discoun...
Miller Fisher appoints new head of business development.
Miller Fisher has appointed Richard Perry as the new head of business development of its Motor Servi...
Eye Risk launched this week by GAB Robins.
Instant collation of claims data is to become available to risk managers with the launch this week o...
Accidents will happen.
Every five minutes, someone in the UK has a serious accident - and many of these happen in the home. Yet personal accident insurance is relatively low on most people's shopping list. Simon Threadgold looks at how insurers are getting the importance of…
Great Eastern cross-selling.
Great Eastern Life Assurance Co and Keppel Insurance have entered into a cross-selling deal that wil...
MMA increases its online offering.
Broker-only insurer MMA has increased its online offering, on the Software Solutions Partners Gilt E...
Subsidence monitoring questioned.
Loss adjusters and engineers have been challenged to justify the almost universal monitoring of buil...
View from the Top - Harriet Eisner
Harriet Eisner, international officer, Amicus-MSF The long-awaited and controversial Information an...
Senior management quit Aon.
Two senior directors have left Aon Motor Accident Management in the UK. The departures come in th...
Survey sparks anger over women's pay.
I have just read the Post Magazine Annual Workplace Survey (PM, 13 June). Being responsible for huma...
Full details of judgement published today.
The full detail of the House of Lords judgement in the Fairchild, Fox and Matthews mesothelioma comp...