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Clerical goes live.
Clerical Medical has gone live on m-link, the e-trading platform for independent financial advisers....
Fortis profits on the rise
Benelux-based insurer Fortis, which merged and rebranded Northern Star and Bishopsgate in the UK last...
How e-wise are you?
E-commerce is increasing insurers' workloads rather than reducing them, says Phil Race in an analysis of the results of a survey of delegates at Post Magazine's recent e-commerce to e-profit conference in London.
Axa pumps up cover.
French insurer Axa has signed a deal with Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch/Shell to sell car insu...
Penny Black's insurance week.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the St Paul must be feeling very chuffed indeed...
Playing the game to win.
I would like to add my comments to those of the two previous anonymous contributors remarking on how...
Killing' law delay criticised.
The government's decision to delay the introduction of a new 'corporate killing' law has been critic...
Fortis merger on.
Dutch-Belgian financial group Fortis' planned EUR4.1bn (£2.2bn) takeover of Dutch insurer ASR Verzek...
FarmWeb checks cover.
Insurance specialist FarmWeb has warned farmers to check that their stocks of straw, potatoes and ot...
L&G: Prosser stays.
Legal & General group chief executive David Prosser has agreed to remain in his role until 2006, two...
... director general of the ABI.
Jane Bernstein met Mary Francis, director general of the Association of British Insurers, and discovered that in this period of shifting attitudes, there is nothing predictable about promoting the industry.
Sun warms market.
Sun Life Financial of Canada has selected technology provider CMG's point-of-sale equipment PAS to h...
Allianz moves on Japan's credit.
German insurer Allianz has tied up with Japan's Marubeni Corporation to enter the newly-emerging cre...
Appointment at Car Care Plan.
Car Care Plan managing director Tim Heavisides has been appointed managing director of the company's...
DAC's annual dinner.
Davies Arnold Cooper's Property and Construction Group head and partner Nick Young (left) got to gri...
Art underinsured.
Household buyers of art and antiques are seriously underinsured, insurer Hiscox said this week, foll...
Sink or float?
Specialist marine insurers are under threat as general insurers move into this traditionally niche market. Eric Alexander assesses whether P&I clubs should demutualise to survive the restructuring in this sector.
JLT benefits from getting the Abbey habit.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group has acquired Abbey National Benefit Consultants as it strives to become...
Fastest claims claim.
A new internet insurance provider boasts it is able to provide the fastest claims settlement process...
Ceta launches eBrokerSolution.
Insurance software house, Ceta, has launched eBrokerSolution to help intermediaries web enable their...
Appointment at Elborne Mitchell.
Tim Brentnall has been appointed senior partner at the specialist insurance law firm Elborne Mitchel...
Allied Underwriting moves to Sirius Windows
Allied Underwriting Agencies has become the first UK-based underwriter to use software company Policy...
Bishop moves in on fraud.
The former managing director of fraud investigations practice Bishop International and his team have...
Appointment at XL Prevent.
XL Prevent has appointed Tim Darley vice president, underwriting. As well as managing the underwriti...