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Zurich pins bancassurance hopes on data centre.
Zurich Financial Services is to make a play to become Europe's biggest bancassurer by forming a "wor...
Appointment at Swiss Re.
Swiss Re has made two appointments to its executive board. Rudolf Kellenberger becomes the board's d...
Appointment at The Broker Network.
Neil Worsnop has been made partnership director for The Broker Network. He joins from Eagle Star, wh...
Rehabilitation regime must be flexible.
Post Magazine and the Association of British Insurers are to be applauded for raising the awareness ...
Bland takes over.
Philip Bland, chairman of Leicester-based broker Bland Bankart, is to chair the national insurance b...
Appointment at CWA Claims Services.
CWA Claims Services has appointed two new managers. Scot Farthing joins from Crowe Insurance to beco...
RSA acts to slow rocketing fleet claims.
In response to the spiralling cost of motor fleet claims, insurer Royal & Sun Alliance has launched ...
ABI launch whiplash campaign
The Association of British Insurers has launched a campaign to halve the £1bn insurance bill caused b...
Intelligent move.
Wellington Underwriting's political risk division has signed an agreement with Hereford-based specia...
Willis buys broker.
Wills has acquired Sev Dahl's Assurancekontor, the largest independent broker in Norway which has an...
Merger creates civil law giant.
London's first 'super set' of chambers has been heralded with the announcement that two leading insu...
NU vindicated in medical no-pay case.
The insurance ombudsman has backed a decision by Norwich Union not to pay a woman's £14,000 medical ...
Claim tips off cops.
An insurance fraud arising out of an alleged seizure by pirates of a £2m yacht involved in a drug de...
Scottish Widows deny postal hiccup.
Scottish Widows this week denied that the completion of its £7bn takeover by Lloyds TSB has been hit...
A safe way to sell mortgages.
The Association of British Insurers has drawn up a 10-point plan to safeguard endowment mortgage cus...
Beep, beep benefit.
Road Runner, the specialist motor trade insurer, has included an additional benefit under its road r...
Ockham on highway out of Lloyd's
Ockham has been granted permission to establish a Financial Services Authority regulated motor insura...
Churchill's fancy dress.
A 50ft giant dragon with a bulldog head had Christmas shoppers smiling as it snaked around the outsi...
Affirmative, it's a negative.
Four Lloyd's syndicates have been given a negative outlook in rating agency Moody's latest appraisal...
Motor book to be scrapped?
Iron Trades' motor business could be under threat following its acquisition by Australian insurer QB...
Brokers to party like it's 1999.
The majority of the broking fraternity will wake up with sore heads on 1 January 2000 if a survey by...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Leave for all fire services across Britain has been cancelled over the New Ye...
Appointment at Cornwell Affiliates.
Bernard Levins, a specialist in insurance and other financial services, has joined strategic consult...
Pru in China deal.
Prudential is to form a joint venture with China International Trust and Investment Corp (CITIC) in ...