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Swiss Life launches shake-up.
Switzerland's biggest life assurer Swiss Life has launched a minor management shake-up in a bid to c...
Superior Scottish.
Scottish Mutual has been awarded an A+ (Superior) rating by rating agency AM Best. The rating reflec...
Pinning down cover.
Underpinning guaranteeing trade body the Association of Specialist Underpinning Contractors has intr...
Zurich and Permanent jostle for term business.
The first shots have been fired in the term battlefield with both Zurich Life and Permanent Insuranc...
Internet deal bags Helphire free adverts.
Legal services specialist Helphire has formed a strategic alliance with Internet and software develo...
Fire causes substantial loss.
The Specialist Adjusting Team for loss adjusters Cunningham Ellis & Buckle in London were called to ...
GAB offers global web access to data.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins is launching a self-service web-enabled reporting system that will allow it...
Willis gets Mersey Blues as key Liverpool staff defect.
Liverpool broker Griffiths & Armour has snapped up two big hitters from rival Willis. Richard Tro...
Axa suspends two legal giants.
Axa has suspended two law firms on its legal panel after an audit revealed they had abandoned compan...
ZFS to make 400 jobless.
Nearly 400 UK jobs are to go at Zurich Financial Services after it announced the closure of four off...
Orbitex is top fund.
The Orbitex Exempt Balanced Fund, which is aimed at the UK institutional pension fund market, was th...
Good practice reduces regulation.
Good risk management practices will result in less regulation, according to Financial Services Autho...
Equitable Life to fight ruinous ruling.
Beleaguered mutual Equitable Life is fighting back after suffering a court reversal last week said t...
What the Papers Say.
SUNDAY EXPRESS A teenager who claims she was driven out of school by racist bullying is suing a c...
Insurers sign up.
Allianz, Aon, Axa, CGU, Generali and Marsh are among the insurers and intermediaries that have signe...
Britannic poised to bid for United.
Britannic Assurance is set to bid for United Assurance next month when the beleaguered door-to-door ...
CSC makes a date.
Broking systems provider Computer Sciences Corporation has said that it expects to have rolled out P...
London looks to brokers.
Lloyd's has turned its sights to brokers with a half-a-million pound advertising campaign commencing...
Virgin firms in tax probe.
Four international adjusting firms operating in the Virgin Islands have been investigated for allege...
Henri takes Axa job.
Axa supremo Claude Bebear is to hand over the reins of France's biggest insurer Axa to his deputy. T...
Deal puts syndicate at risk.
SmithKline Beecham's captive syndicate 1250 at Lloyd's could be under threat following the pharmaceu...
Public backs calls for PMI to bail out NHS.
The public believes the private medical sector is the answer to the current National Health Service ...
Polygon adds further side to Lambourn.
Specialist London market outsourced services provider Lambourn Insurance Services has been sold to t...
Norkom on its way to US after £3m cash injection.
Dublin's Norkom Technologies is to expand in the US on the back of a further equity investment of $3...