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Online to save.
Everybody accepts that e-commerce is the way forward for businesses in the 21st century, so with the technology there for the taking, how much use are insurers making of new innovations? Richard Griffiths finds out.
Broadside fired at ship industry.
A culture of blame and a decline in standards are major causes of concern for the ship repair indust...
ABI highlights need to train company car drivers.
Despite the fact that company car drivers have more accidents than private motorists, most employees...
Carrying out stamp duty.
I ought to solve the whodunit of the missing postage (Penny Black, PM 11 Nov, p56). It is not Primar...
Exclusive - Subsidence claimsbuster group set up.
A new organisation committed to the early settlement of subsidence claims will be unveiled next week...
Limit buys Torch for £10m.
Lloyd's-listed Limit is to acquire Torch, the Lloyd's motor group, for £10m. The move, announced ...
Appointment at Axa Insurance.
Lisa Walden has been made broker communication manager for Axa Insurance. She joins Axa from Maritz ...
Folgate joins panel.
Folgate Insurance will join HSBC Select's extended panel of household insurers, bringing its full cy...
Bigger picture of adjusting.
The loss adjusting sector, along with the rest of the insurance industry, is undergoing rapid change...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Imagine Penny's surprise when a routine question to Saracens Rugby Club about sports insurance was a...
New Year shutdown? It's business as usual.
Your article 'New Year Shutdown' (PM 4 Nov, p8) stated claims processing in the London market will c...
Hands up who's happy.
David Fanning gets mixed views when he asks personal lines brokers if they are satisfied with insurers, discovering that the recent merger-mania has had a less-than-desirable effect on their business relationships.
Holocaust hearings.
California's Department of Insurance is to hold hearings at the start of December to investigate for...
Appointment at Iron Trades.
Tony Sherman has been promoted to finance director at Iron Trades. He joined the company in 1996 as ...
Millennium Conference of LIA.
International sprinter and gold medal winner Kris Akabusi will share the secrets of his success as a...
Website fires up.
Disaster recovery specialist for documents and books, Hardwell Drying and Restoration Services, has ...
End of the roadshow for the GISC.
The General Insurance Standards Council wound up its series of roadshows to promote its second consu...
Appointment at The Recruitment Works.
A new recruitment consultancy for the insurance and financial services sector has opened in Scotland...
Broking plonk-ers.
The run-up to the millennium will be just luvvly bubbly for brokers submitting high volume premium f...
Shock as industry big guns quit.
The insurance sector has seen two shock resignations in the past week. Lloyd Hanks, managing dire...
Appointment at RJ Wallace Syndicates.
Bill Dyson has joined RJ Wallace Syndicates as professional indemnity underwriter. Previously he was...
The running man.
GAB Robins director Robert Binning put his athletic feet forward when he competed in the Dublin mara...
Insurer CGU renames in India.
Insurer CGU has renamed Commercial Union and General Accident to CGU Life Insurance and CGU General ...
Swiss Re's Internet exchange
Reinsurer Swiss Re has launched the Electronic Risk Exchange (ELRiX) which allows for standardised ri...