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Grim prediction for profits.
Profits are set to plummet for Canadian property/casualty insurers, predicts financial services cons...
Insurance is the solicitor's "hidden asset", says Aon.
Aon Risk Services has produced a new report in which it puts forward its ideas for settling the futu...
Merger has certainly clipped Eagle's wings.
Mergers are made in heaven - or hell. Some work and some do not. In all mergers there are casualties...
Smoke signals to be heeded.
There is much for employers and employees to learn from a recent court judgement in a passive smoking case. Christine Winter looks at the case.
Much ado about nothing.
The furore being generated over Ron Sandler's comments about the future of individual Names has got ...
Alert as disqualified drivers hit the road.
Insurers have been warned to take greater care when it comes to the screening of new policyholders a...
They think it's all over ... it is now.
Football competition ends in penalty shoot-out, £850 paid for an England shirt and a bumper charity cheque.
UK delay over EMU could lose London the centre spot.
The UK's failure to join the first wave of EMU could jeopardise London's chances of becoming the hom...
Misys on the move.
Misys has announced the final phase of the consolidation of its Penta operation into the Misys Finan...
Flood boundary rethink.
The stroke of a pen will see some Californians paying more for flood insurance as the Federal Emerge...
Why adjusters see assessing as business suicide.
For many years now I have argued the need for chartered loss adjusters to make their services availa...
Consumer choice is loser in kitemarking proposals.
This government has thus far prided itself on steering a careful course through the many vested inte...
No-pay Norway.
For many years, Norwegian insurers have refused to pay compensation to some clients suspected of ins...
No Oscars for Titanic effort.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
How to avoid going round in circulars.
One of Post Magazine's regular correspondents decided to offer readers some advice on the topic of c...
Food for thought.
A recent case involving a chain of health food shops offered welcome news for directors & officers liability insurers. Antoine West chews over the facts.
AXA sheds stake in UIF.
AXA is off loading its 34.65% stake in UIF to GFC in keeping with its stated intention of reducing i...
Software deal.
Scottish Widows and FileNET have put pen to paper on the £1.5m Panagon integrated document managemen...
Sign of Gemini's plans.
Gemini Consultants has expanded its loan and mortgage administration software and bureau business to...
Irish insurers welcome Belfast peace deal.
The Irish Insurance Industry joined forces to express its excitement at the prospect of a peaceful a...
Qualified staff bound to be best.
At the present time, there is a considerable amount of regeneration taking place within the membersh...
Judgement day.
Whether it will be planes dropping out of the skies or the video recorder seizing up, it is now accepted that something will certainly go wrong electronically come the millennium. Yet Tony Dowding finds many companies are still ill-prepared for 2000.
President of the Insurance Benevolent Fund accepts cheque.
Peter Knight (left), president of the Insurance Benevolent Fund, accepts a cheque for £10,000 from P...
Getting your head round psychiatry.
Claims for psychiatric injury now regularly hit the headlines following the increased public awarene...