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Eversheds' restructuring means new practice group.
National law firm Eversheds is to establish a national volume group to focus on the firm's low-margi...
Time for the industry to pull together?
The Chester Street Insurance Holdings fiasco is a national tragedy. The media witch-hunt will cle...
The intricacies of making a claim.
I was unfortunate to be run into by a policyholder of Axa Insurance last May. Axa admitted liability...
Axa: new legal panel appointed.
Axa Corporate Solutions has appointed a new legal panel following a parade involving 30 firms. Ci...
Misys bugged.
Technology giant Misys posted a pre tax profit of £66m (excluding internet spending) for the six mon...
Overseas killing.
Overseas employees will be able to sue their UK parent companies once the government's new 'corporat...
MCS amalgamates.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson has become software provider MCS's biggest user after amalgamating its whole ...
BLM advise BRB.
Law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer has been appointed to the British Railways Board panel of legal adviso...
Commentary - Time for zero tolerance in fraud cases.
A long-standing bone of contention within the insurance industry is the ineffectiveness of criminal ...
St James' Place unveils 2000 results.
St James' Place aptly chose the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, to be the one to unveil its 2...
Hammond refocuses.
Hammond Suddards Edge has shut its claimant insurance practice to concentrate on higher-value corpor...
Thatcham: new CEO.
Peter Roberts has been appointed the new chief executive of Thatcham, the automotive research body. ...
Auto profit move.
Auto Indemnity moved into profit for the final quarter of last year, acknowledging subscription to t...
Chester Street faces MPs asbestos wrath.
The furore surrounding the voluntary liquidation of Chester Street Insurance continues to mount amid...
Motor facing long haul.
It will be years before most motor insurers reach breakeven, with combined loss ratios of 100%, desp...
RSA staff reinstated.
Three employees sacked for e-mail abuse by Royal & Sun Alliance were reinstated last week following ...
Phase 2 for Specialperils.
Business to business commercial insurance portal Specialperils.com is preparing for the second phase...
Appointment at Smith Mason Group.
Risk manager Smith Mason Group has made two additions to its credit risk division. Scott Liddle join...
Appointment at Alexander Forbes Financial Services.
Alexander Forbes has made Garry Appleton corporate services director for its benefits and financial ...
Broker limbo.
Hundreds of brokers could be left in a regulatory void following the Office of Fair Trading's decisi...
Appointment at Imhotep Consultancy.
Imhotep Consultancy, the organisational change management specialist focusing on the insurance secto...
Names to shun Lloyd's latest offer.
The United Names Organisation - the body behind the litigating Names in the Jaffray trial - has slam...
GISC stalls despite green light.
The uncertainty is finally, over, isn't it? The General Insurance Standards Council has now, after...
Household for Egg.
The Prudential-owned online financial services company Egg has launched a household insurance superm...