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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 ...
The e-asy way to stay competitive.
To stay competitive, insurance providers and independent financial advisers must extend their e-comm...
Exclusive - Spring clean comes early for insurers.
Software supplier and Lloyd's market specialist Eurobase has launched a new data tidying service for...
Appointment at Gillespie.
Executive search consultants Gillespie has appointed Martin Wallis as a director and senior consulta...
Athletics competition winners.
The two lucky winners of the first Post Magazine/CGU Athletics tickets competition were Stuart Micha...
Appointment at Thomas, Carroll.
Thomas, Carroll has made three senior appointments. Ray Dickens has been made deputy chairman, Stuar...
AIG devises POSI for thorny capital raising.
AIG Europe (UK) has unveiled a policy which is designed to facilitate capital raising. Public Offeri...
Wesleyan on web.
Wesleyan Assurance Society has launched a new website offering access to 22 different financial prod...