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Swiss Life in UK push.
Swiss Life has made a greater push for the UK medical insurance market, with the purchase of occupat...
Wider net cover cast.
Groupama Commercial Insurances has enhanced its corporate and business cover products to take into a...
New word on GISC.
The General Insurance Standards Council is piloting two new translations of its consumer leaflet in ...
Appointment at R3: Group.
R3: Group has made two senior appointments. Kevin Rice and Lucy Sinfield have both been made account...
Alarm as pensions knot untied.
The alarm bells should be ringing again for the insurance industry, following the government's decis...
Cigna adds bite.
Cigna HealthCare has launched a new Quality Dental Practice Programme, offering a three-part quality...
Lloyd's biggest growth in capacity for seven years.
Lloyd's has witnessed its biggest single increase in capacity for seven years, fuelled by the expans...
TIG snaps up shares.
E-business specialist The Innovation Group has bought out the remaining shareholding in motor accide...
Weather goes down a storm with adjusters.
The insurance industry may look to the recent inclement weather - rain, winds, snow and then yet mor...
Fifthmoon seeks to up silver surf.
The specialist website for the over 50s, fifthmoon.com, has added travel insurance, mortgage product...
Aviation claims soar to £1.3bn.
Aviation claims returned to average levels last year, following 1999, which was the safest year on r...
Barclays and Legal & General in talks
It is understood that Barclays is in talks with insurer Legal & General over the bank selling its sta...
SecurityFirst is safe and sound.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Cox rebrands Argent chain.
Cox Retail has made a further broking acquisition and has started to rebrand the Argent chain it bou...
Appointment at NIG.
NIG's commercial division has taken on Aase Christensen as product development underwriter responsib...
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...