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FSA ducks question on tied-agents.
The Financial Service Authority's decision to relax polarisation regulations for certain product lin...
New force in travel insurance
The Travel Protection Group is to acquire PJ Hayman in a move which will give it a claimed 10% share...
Belfor Relectronic branch expansion.
Disaster recovery and business continuity company Belfor Relectronic, which was formed by the merger...
Adjusting the balance.
The massive rethink on adjusting panels has caused industry-wide consternation. However, on the liability side, some adjusters are weighing up the benefits of the panel system in the light of Woolf and other market changes. David Worsfold explains.
... a public relations officer.
Moving from insurance into public relations may sound attractive, but you need plenty of patience and a cool head as Jane Bernstein discovered when she spent a busy Monday with Sharon Curd, Allianz Cornhill's PR officer.
New adjuster claims deals.
New national loss adjusting group, The Claims People, has signed its first contract servicing small ...
Esure gets FSA OK.
Esure, the Halifax-backed internet insurance company, has gained regulatory approval from the Financ...
Eagle Star unveils latest recruit.
Zurich's direct general insurance subsidiary Eagle Star has unveiled its latest recruit: Catherine, ...
Appointment at New Millennium Technologies.
Paul Matthews has been made business development director at New Millennium Technologies. Prior to t...
BEIB Horse of the Year Awards.
British Equestrian Insurance Brokers director, Simon Mackaness and Olympic Team Silver and European ...
Fire at Blewbury stables.
A fire raged through the Blewbury stables and riding school near Oxford on the night of 1 January ca...
Rebus halves costs.
London market insurers could halve their telecommunications bill, according to IT service provider R...
Appointment at Audatex.
Audatex has promoted Paul Tucker to managing director from the role of general manager, which he has...
Appointment at St Paul.
St Paul has appointed Jonathan Houghton to the new position of London development manager. He joins ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny has a very hectic social life, but this is probably not as stressful as setting up a new insur...
New disaster chief.
Dr Greg French, managing director of newly-merged disaster recovery and business continuity company ...
Appointment at United Insurance Brokers.
Nick Vine, head of United Insurance Broker's aviation division has been appointed a director of the ...
Capita deal puts Abbey jobs at risk.
Capita Eastgate, the insurance industry service provider, is understood to have won a multi-million ...
NU makes conversion.
Norwich Union said half of its brokers would be recommending all or most of the insurer's renewals t...
Irish quiz could trigger phone-a-friend fracas.
The Irish courts could be spared a new series of claims, following comments made by one of the count...
Chaucer chosen.
Motorcycle insurance provider ChoiceQuote has signed up Chaucer Insurance, Lloyd's Syndicate 587, to...
Animal magic drums up financial interest.
The government will announce a £6.5m awareness campaign today to get more people to buy financial se...
FMW claims tie-up.
Broker FMW Risk Services has added a new claims consultancy service, Loss Recovery Insurance from th...
Equitable resists poaching of staff.
Equitable Life is trying to resist efforts to poach parts of its salesforce as it attempts to sell t...