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Abbey constructs new limit
Abbey Legal Protection has extended its construction industry insurance to include companies with tur...
North Sea to stay calm
Ace Bermuda Insurance, Lloyd's syndicates reinsured into Equitas and CGU will all benefit from the ju...
Insurers act on endowments as FSA rejects inquiry
The insurance industry has drawn up a ten point plan to safeguard endowment mortgage customers follow...
St Paul acquires MMI
The St. Paul Companies is to acquire MMI Companies, the US provider of insurance products and consult...
Pru joint venture in China
Prudential is to form a joint venture with China International Trust and Investment Corp (CITIC) in G...
Trenwick and LaSalle Re merge
Trenwick Group and LaSalle Re Holdings are to merge their operations to create a new Bermuda-based gl...
Lloyd's association breaks with history
In a break with tradition, Bill Rendall, active underwriter of R J Kiln, has been re-elected chairma...
Tie-ins to be banned
The government confirmed this morning that it will act to end compulsory mortgage tie-ins. As a resul...
Cox launches yet another Internet service
Cox Insurance has launched its own e-commerce site - www.insure.co.uk following on from its recent jo...
Come clean and start again.
The Treasury has the most outrageous cheek to suggest that companies selling Individual Savings Acco...
August launch.
Electronic document management specialist August Group has launched augMENT-i, a combined workflow a...
Appointment at William M Mercer.
Sandra Campbell has joined William M Mercer in London as a European partner within its human resourc...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL The US is to take its own gun companies to court in an attempt to make them pay for th...
Lincoln looks to exit UK market
Lincoln Financial Group in the UK could be sold off, the company's US parent, Lincoln National Corpor...
Appointment at SEI Investments.
Patrick Disney has been appointed as managing director with responsibility for institutional busines...
Casual staff were not employees.
In 1989, National Power advertised for the posts of station guides and subsequently offered the jobs...
Appointment at Integris.
Stewart Buller has joined Integris as marketing manager. Previously he was marketing and strategic p...
Organic growth pays off.
A Yorkshire broker has bucked the market's merger trend by getting bigger through organic growth. ...
Setting standards.
A new range of National Vocational Qualifications is explained by Sarah Johnson.
No win, no fee means new threat.
An insurer has warned brokers to be alert to the threat posed by solicitors when Legal Aid is phased...
Change for 2000.
Brockbank Syndicate Management has announced that from 1 January its property account will be writte...
New web-based training system.
A new web-based training system has been developed to help insurance staff keep abreast of the Assoc...
Bugbusting consortium is recruited by Eastgate.
The Eastgate group has put together a consortium to help insurers and brokers provide their clients ...
Appointment at Midas.
Phil Shuff has been appointed as managing consultant at Midas IT Services. He was formerly general m...