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How to approach the police.
DC Maurice Ward of the West Midlands Police Fraud Squad told delegates how insurers should approach ...
£50m: the cost of travel fraud.
Travel fraud is costing UK insurers £50m a year, according to John Wagstaff, manager of the Associat...
Act to be reformed.
A compromise has now been reached between the US Federal Reserve and the Treasury to reform the Glas...
Balancing sectors.
A growing number of brokers are seeking premium finance deals for both commercial and personal lines business, but Steve Banner explains the two sectors must be dealt with in different ways.
Crawford drops the THG.
The UK's third largest loss adjuster Crawford-THG this week dropped the THG from its name. It will n...
Exclusive - Gerling poised to break into UK fleet.
German insurer Gerling is to underwrite fleet business in the UK from next year. Motor manager Ju...
Footman Jones & Co sponsor show.
Specialist motor broker Footman Jones & Co helped celebrate motorcycles 'past and fast' as first-tim...
Chartside begins bid to form new UK broker chain.
A new company hopes to set up a new UK chain of brokers through acquisitions and cold starts. Cha...
Outsourcing firms not winning over customers.
Outsourcing suppliers are failing to impress customers according to a survey carried out for IT outs...
Hello new Rover and farewell to rust.
As London gears up for the annual Motor Show, we look back at how Post Magazine reported on the even...
New name in 'Nam.
Australian financial services group Colonial has been awarded a licence to operate a joint life insu...
IBM's £20m drive.
Computing giant IBM rolled out the first stage of a major e-business initiative last week spearheade...
Catapult hits award.
Jane Hunt (above), has plenty to smile about after her firm, Catapult Public Relations, scooped the ...
Pumped-up Tufty ready for 2000.
NPI has beefed-up its image following the takeover by Australian insurance giant AMP Group. It ha...
Secret IT insurer.
Churchill Insurance has confirmed that it is holding talks with a UK insurance company to provide IT...
Brokers offered deal by insurer.
Brokers are being urged to go out and sell key personnel insurance by a health insurer. Exeter-ba...
Sun, sea and scam.
I do not know who in Berrymans Lace Mawer wrote the article 'Pack It In' (PM 30 September, p33) but ...
£1bn fire loss figure.
UK fire losses are running at over £1bn a year says the UN - 40% higher than the Association of Brit...
Legal merger.
Nottingham-based insurance law firm Berryman & Co is to merge with fellow east Midlands company Shac...
Insurer in switch of tactics.
GE Financial Insurance is to focus on the broker and independent financial adviser market, an area i...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Barclays Bank has apologised to customers in Reading and Didcot, Berks, where...
IBRC gets official death knell.
The Treasury formally announced its plans to disband the Insurance Brokers Registration Council on T...
Barclays to rethink.
The Advertising Standards Authority has told Barclays Bank to use a different example in its health ...
On CUE to beat fraud.
Churchill insurance has taken a further step in the fight against fraud. The insurer has become t...