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One for the road?
The government has recently refused to implement tighter controls for drink-driving. However, the ABI is keen to remind drivers, when they are deciding whether to have that last drink, that premiums are loaded against those that flout the law, says…
Penny Black's insurance week.
Attention to detail is perhaps nowhere better personified than in the loss adjusting community, so P...
Swiss Life to axe 800 employees.
Swiss Life is to cut 800 jobs, having recorded a drop in net profits to SFr124m (£52m). The insurer ...
Bupa to be official health partner for Commonwealth Games.
Bupa has signed a deal to be the official health partner for the Commonwealth Games, taking place in...
OAMPS Insurance Brokers to be accredited by Lloyd's.
OAMPS Insurance Brokers has become the first Australian broker to be accredited by Lloyd's....
Lloyd's insurer Atrium has reported a loss ...
Lloyd's insurer Atrium has reported a loss of 5.6% on capacity for the 1999 year of account and esti...
IT Direct is to launch an online purchasing portal ...
IT Direct is to launch an online purchasing portal for Lloyd's, British Insurance Brokers' Associati...
O'Hare predicts four Bermudian casualties.
Marcus Alcock reports from the 40th Risk and Insurance Management Society Conference, which is taking place in New Orleans this week.
Halifax General Insurances gains accreditation for training.
Halifax General Insurance has become the first household insurance provider to gain formal accredita...
Appointment at Willis Aerospace.
Global broker Willis has announced that John Horsley, managing director of its aerospace division, i...
Waking up to dismissal laws - Eastwood & Williams v Magnox Electric.
(Court of Appeal - 22 March 2002) The results of this case are of great interest to personal injur...
Defendants view legal reforms positively.
Analysing the effects of the legal reforms, Chris Webb-Jenkins, a partner at Browne Jacobson, said t...
Law reform: today's proposals, tomorrow's costs.
16 May 2002 The Insurance Hall Readers interested in learning more about the civil justice refo...
New TV campaign for Zurich Financial Services.
Hoping to persuade customers that it does things they would not believe, Zurich Financial Services h...
Mandel targets membership.
Christopher Mandel, the incoming president of Rims, intends to embark on a membership drive in order...
Investigating and reserving subsidence claims - 18 June 2002, The
Subsidence poses an enormous challenge to insurers, loss adjusters and a wide range of specialist co...
Appointment at Chubb Insurance.
Chubb Insurance Company of Europe has made Dave Brosnan commercial insurance manager for Chubb Europ...
Fortis faces rail crash writs.
Fortis, the insurer of the driver who caused the Selby train crash, has received writs for compensat...
Appointment at Alec Finch Group.
The board of regional commercial broker the Alec Finch Group has appointed its first non-executive d...
DAS splits off ATE business.
Bristol-based legal expenses insurer DAS is to create a separate division for its after-the-event bu...
Munich Re to enter Chinese reinsurance market.
Munich Re last week claimed it would be the first foreign company to be issued with a reinsurance li...
Endlseigh this week entered the pet insurance market ...
Endlseigh this week entered the pet insurance market with a new product for cats and dogs, while Dir...
Legal & General reported a 34% increase in new business ...
Legal & General reported a 34% increase in new business in its first quarter to £233m. The insurer s...
Clinicare sets sights on general market.
Private medical insurer Clinicare is set to enter the UK general insurance market in five years time...