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Appointment at Merricks Solicitors.
Construction litigation specialist Andrew Wand has joined the Chelmsford office of Merricks Solicito...
Branding vital in virtual age.
The importance of branding to the financial services industry was hammered home to delegates by Dann...
Appointment at Lane Clark & Peacock.
Consulting actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock has appointed five new partners. Martin Cross and Paul Gat...
Living dangerously.
Recent years have seen an explosion in the popularity of extreme sports. David Fanning finds out what insurance cover is available to those who like life on the edge.
Exclusive - Promark puts Progen online.
Promark, software supplier to the general insurance market, has put its system Progen online. Ins...
Industry is in a no-win situation over Y2K.
Today should be a foretaste of things to come and may indicate what to expect in just 16 weeks time....
Appointment at Sun Bank.
Liz Stephens has joined the board of Sun Bank as operations director. Previously she was operations ...
State of the market.
All the information you'll need to make the right moves.
Penny Black's insurance week.
Citigate PR people Lisa Griffith and Mica Quinn were left red-faced after organising a quiz night fo...
Howarth made MD.
IT consultancy Compass Analysis has appointed Alan Howarth as its managing director. Prior to joinin...
RSA staff steel themselves for job losses.
Royal & Sun Alliance staff are bracing themselves for job cuts after the company revealed plans to t...
Expo-Sure.
Organisers of millennium events are being advised to protect themselves against the financial implic...
Smokers to get a hearing each.
Damage claims against tobacco companies will be heard one smoker at a time, a Miami state appeals co...
Hefty fine for Fenchurch's fraud.
Fenchurch Insurance Brokers and its former director, John Pexton, have been stung with fines totalli...
Exclusive - CE&B staff told jobs are to go.
Jobs are expected to go at loss adjuster Cunningham Ellis & Buckle. A memo has been circulated to...
Insurance lawyers low in fat cat stakes.
Insurance lawyers are facing fierce competition on rates and have failed to record the million-a-yea...
Madden moves on.
Tim Madden, executive vice president and chief underwriting officer of CNA Re in London, is said to ...
Insurers must have answers ready.
Social and financial exclusion is set to hit the headlines in the next few months as the Treasury pr...
Cyber warning.
An early warning computer crime prevention system - Micro Spy - claims it can detect potential compu...
Boom in legal cover.
Demand for legal expenses cover has grown dramatically since the present government came to power, a...
US/Japan venture.
American International Group KK, the Japanese arm of US insurer AIG, and Orix, a Japanese leasing co...
Shropshire partners fight off big name.
The management of a Shropshire broker has beaten off stiff competition from a 'major high street ins...
Hub plans US drive.
Toronto broker the Hub Group is looking to expand from Canada into the US via acquisition. Hub, esta...
Axa wants to get a life.
Axa is stepping up its bid to buy a life office following a spate of mergers. Nat West's audaciou...