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Appointment at Alexander Forbes.
Alexander Forbes Risk Services has taken on Paul McGhee as regional director for Scotland. Mr McGhee...
MMA: free course.
Broker only insurer MMA Insurance has launched a new free product training course for commercial pro...
Weighing up the benefits
Benefits packages are increasingly offered by employers seeking the ideal candidate. Jane Bernstein looks at the problems associated with their upkeep.
Fleeting launch.
HML Fleets has been launched by insurance products marketing company HML. The service is available t...
ABI pursues GISC cause.
The Association of British Insurers is to actively pursue members who are 'ambivalent' to the Genera...
Chester Street arranges protection
The directors of Chester Street Insurance Holdings, formerly Iron Trades Holdings, have issued a sche...
Appointment at Merricks.
Colin Barr has joined Merricks commercial team. He has 15 years' private practice experience in comp...
Marlborough's new year assault.
E-business solution provider Marlborough Stirling has increased its management team as it gears up f...
Driver negligent for exceeding 'safe' speed.
In the recent case of Webb v Darbon, heard in the High Court, a young boy received a settlement of £...
Independent halts European expansion.
Independent Insurance has abandoned its European expansion plans for the time being in order to focu...
Penny Black's insurance week.
A very merry Christmas to you all. One will be off on her hols next week brushing up on a spot of sk...
Appointment at JK Buckenham.
Neal James-Crook has recently joined the board of independent Lloyd's broker JK Buckenham from Aon G...
WISe call on standards.
Global insurance data standards body WISe has called on the industry to help implement technology st...
News on Names.
The Jaffray litigants were expected in court again today to learn what cost awards will be given by ...
What the Papers Say.
THE TIMES Robbers stole £10,000 from a couple who ran a grocery shop by ambushing them with canis...
Axa wins orphan dispute
Insurer Axa has won its case in the High Court concerning the future of its orphan funds, in a case w...
Regulatory challenge for 2001.
As the bells that toll the start of another new year beckon, they are unlikely to drown out the accu...
Tifco team in job talks.
Premium finance company Prompt has denied speculation that the managing and financial directors of r...
Appointment at Quote and Buy.
Online insurance intermediary Quote and Buy has appointed David Hayward, former chief executive of t...
Davies loss adjusters investigate £1m loss.
Davies loss adjusters is investigating a potential £1m loss after a 200-year-old former mill in Warr...
Seminar on employment risk.
Approximately 20,000 employee years of working life are lost annually from work-related accidents, s...
NN sells business.
South-African insurance group Alexander Forbes has acquired the general insurance business of Nichol...
Appointment at United Insurance Brokers.
United Insurance Brokers has appointed Philip Tuite-Dalton as chief operating officer. Prior to this...
In a spin.
This year, the pensions shake-up and the government's new savings plans, have thrown the life sector into a spin and, as a result, insurers have been forced to move into the 21st century with a rethink of their outmoded practices, says Keith Sankey.