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New multi-trip.
MRL Insurance has launched a new annual multi-trip insurance product. Underwritten by AIG it incl...
What's best when the worst happens?
Keith Sankey looks at critical illness cover and income protection and discovers why sales of one are taking off while the other is lagging behind.
Appointment at Miller Pycraft.
Miller Pycraft has made several promotions. Graeme Bell and Gary Liptrot have been made advanced dev...
Exploiting chances.
A report by market analyst Datamonitor has revealed that lenders offering loan protection insurance ...
Expansion in Tokyo.
Herbert Smith has recruited an established local team of lawyers to boost its new Tokyo office. S...
Reinventing the Corporation is a must.
Lloyd's continues to re-invent itself and so it should. The recent announcement that the corporation...
National network.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Ellis & Buckle next week centralises its Home Services adjuster field force...
New fog clearing device.
A new fog clearing device could stop insurers getting misty eyed over cloudy claims. The Dry Ice Spr...
Policy Management Systems Corporation name change.
Policy Management Systems Corporation is changing its name to Mynd, unifying PMSC and all of its dom...
... a personal lines underwriter.
In the first part of a new series, Jonathan Swift spent a day with Hiscox's Austyn Tusler to find out what a personal lines underwriter gets up to ...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
John Beston has been appointed as motor fleet manager for Ecclesiastical Insurance. He will be based...
Not bad for a first effort.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
MULRA advocates responsibility.
Underwriters should be forced to accept responsibility for unregulated, uninsured loss recovery oper...
Traveller's checks.
The General Insurance Standards Council wants to impose tight regulations on the selling of insurance by travel agents. David Fanning discovers that not everyone in this highly competitive market thinks this is a good thing.
Chubb buys Danish.
Chubb Europe has maintained its strategy of growth in the Nordic region with the acquisition of the ...
Appointment at Sun Microsystems.
Jonathan McKay has been appointed vice president and general manager of Sun Microsystems Internet ap...
Mutuals hoping to raise funds through initial public offerings.
Three former north American mutuals - John Hancock, Sun Life and Met Life - along with Pru of Americ...
Gladwell takes over Axa personal lines
Axa Insurance has finally replaced Rob Ryan with the appointment of Lee Gladwell as director of perso...
Routledge quits Octavian
Peter Routledge has resigned as active underwriter of Octavian Syndicate Management's motor syndicate...
Up to 400 jobs axed at Abbey Life's Bournemouth office
Abbey Life has confirmed that up to 400 jobs will go at its Bournemouth head office following the tak...
IPC Re hit by storms and closes London office
IPCRe has said it expects losses of $35m, or $1.36 per share, in the fourth quarter of 1999 as a resu...
London market plans reforms
Lloyd's and the International Underwriting Association (IUA) are considering the merger of the two Lo...
ZFS pays £80m for Abbey Life
Zurich Financial Services is to acquire Abbey Life's distribution network from Lloyds TSB for £80m. T...
BIBA's apprenticeship scheme moves to CII
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has moved its government-backed Modern Apprenticeship sche...