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Scottish soaring.
Scottish Equitable has reported record levels of new business in the first six months of 1998. Total...
What's the damage of House of Lords ruling?
The House of Lords' long-awaited ruling on personal injury damages has left many insurers reeling with shock. Solicitor Paul Coppin discusses the background to the case and its implications.
A host of hospitality problems to consider.
Has the corporate hospitality bubble burst? This is a question that seems to be surfacing following ...
Guardian's own little book of calm.
Guardian Insurance has published a guide for its clients and intermediaries to help cut the financia...
Hambo Grand Prix Prize Draw winner.
John Burnham of Leicester-based brokers Bayley Bruce Burnham Hasdell finished in pole position at th...
Danger money for the day job.
Eagle Star staff have been given an insight into the working conditions of the past in a major study...
Lords strike 'wrong balance'.
Insurers and legal experts were not giving up the fight following a Lords' ruling which is set to co...
Commentary - Payment-in: a useful weapon.
The payment-into court has long been a weapon in the armoury of the defendant in civil litigation. N...
Shipshape in Bristol.
Insurance law firm Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave has moved one step closer to the completion of its ne...
Tourists uncovered.
A survey by the UK's largest travel insurer, Home & Overseas, shows that one in 10 holidaymakers go ...
Copenhagen Re opens branch in London.
Danish reinsurer Copenhagen Re last week opened a branch office in London as part of a strategy to e...
Mum-to-be unlawfully sacked.
In August 1990 a woman informed her employer that she was pregnant. She then had a succession of ...
Falling off the dock of the bay.
New Orleans dock workers are the most accident prone in the United States. That is one one of the...
Broad brush tactic to Y2K is wrong.
Insurers are treading a fine line when it comes to extending the list of exclusions for millennium b...
PIA action hangs over too-slow mis-selling firms.
Three firms could face action from the Personal Investment Authority after failing to meet the 30 Ju...
Worshipful Company of Insurers backs business school.
The country's newest business school is hoping to develop an internationally recognised centre of ex...
Error leaves pension firms quids-in.
Pensions firms are tens of thousands of pounds better off than they should be because of a flaw in t...
Brown backs Irvine.
Lloyd's underwriter Reg Brown has backed the Lord Chancellor's proposed reforms of legal aid. Speaki...
Medium is our message': Drewy's.
Independent brokers now have the opportunity to gain access to improved company profiles and sales f...
Shameful behaviour of so-called professionals.
An enjoyable evening at the British Insurance Awards at Grosvenor House last week was marred by one ...
Sky's the limit for Avon.
Avon recently gave some of its brokers a taste of the high life when they were given the opportunity...
Welcome for report.
A government report has laid out a bug-busting action plan for the millennium. The second Science...
An interesting look back in candour.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Reading the lead story from our issue of 21 July 1988 it is possible to see the seeds of Municipal Mutual's eventual destruction being sown as it distanced itself from its traditional local government base.
Irish Life MD's u-turn.
The managing director of Irish Life, David Went, has agreed to appear before a committee charged wit...