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Lloyd's offers Names settlement.
Lloyd's has halted its debt collection activities against non-paying Names and provided details of a...
DWL spinning web deals with three UK insurers.
DWL, a Canadian e-solutions company that opened a UK office last month, believes it is close to sign...
What the Papers Say.
THE SUN Penalty shoot-outs really can mean sudden death - for stressed-out football fans, doctors...
Axa wins asset case.
Insurer Axa has won its High Court case concerning the future of its orphan funds, in a move that co...
Natural catastrophes up, but payouts down.
Insurers saved billions in natural catastrophe payouts in 2000, despite the incidence of catastrophe...
New board for GISC.
The General Insurance Standards Council's proposals for increasing the representation of its board f...
Contract for LPSO.
The Lloyd's Policy Signing Office Service Centre has won its first contract for full service provisi...
Intermediaries must sign up to GISC says PPP.
Axa subsidiary PPP Healthcare will only recruit intermediaries signed up to the General Insurance St...
Chester Street covers its future.
The directors of Chester Street Insurance Holdings, formerly Iron Trades Holdings, have issued a sch...
Driven to succeed.
Pre-event legal expenses provider Motor Law is looking to recruit 50 new members of staff this month...
FM Global snaps up contracts following market withdrawals.
Niche commercial insurer FM Global claims it is picking up several new contracts on the back of play...
Legal cover launch.
Online Claims has teamed up with MSL to offer a full range of legal expenses insurance. Adrian Benne...
BBC's The Broker's Man causes row.
A row has broken out over the 1996 BBC series The Broker's Man in which Kevin Whately played an ex-d...
Eureko recruits second UK partner to its fold.
The pan-European consortium of insurers Eureko has recruited its second UK partner by acquiring inve...
BT logs on to funds.
National independent financial adviser Inter-Alliance Group has struck a deal with British Telecom t...
Lappin in training.
Independent Insurance's personal lines manager Ken Lappin is set to take up the role as principal at...
Insurers must take a European stance.
European insurance companies' failure to take a company view on cross-border issues is seriously ham...
Rates set to fall for NHS trusts.
NHS trusts have benefited from shunning the commercial insurance sector, according to Health Ministe...
Aon UK job cuts hit 1000.
Broking giant Aon has confirmed it expects to cut 1000 UK jobs as part of its global restructuring -...
New Year's Honour.
Maurice Eugene Healy (above), chairman of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau Council, was among those me...
Hiscox mystery backers
Two major European reinsurers are to provide 7% of the overall capital for Lloyd's syndicate 33, mana...
Miller Pycraft to cull network.
Loss adjuster Miller Pycraft is planning a substantial cull of its office network from 22 down to 12...
Mynd your mergers.
Computer Sciences Corporation has completed its acquisition of Mynd Corporation - formerly Policy Ma...
Penny Black's insurance week.
A happy new year to you all - especially Lloyd's insurer Hiscox, which certainly gets its money's-wo...