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Leading the way.
There's a great deal more to leadership in business than merely being able to manage, argues Kevin Paterson. Consistency, vision and integrity are all absolutely crucial.
A nation of life savers.
Nicholas Holmes looks at Europe's largest life market and assesses the sector's prospects.
Hard times caused by delayed payments.
My husband has been in the business of underpinning and structural repairs for 25 years, first worki...
British insurer CGU to merge.
British insurer CGU is to finally merge Commercial Union (Malaysia) and GA Insurance, two Malaysian ...
CD-ROM from Gan.
Gan Accident and Health has joined forces with underwriter Berkeley Alexander to develop a CD-ROM wi...
Gladiator aims high.
Specialist telebroker Gladiator is moving its 200 staff across Cardiff to Wales' tallest building, C...
Appointment at Royal London Insurance.
Royal London's deputy chairman Hubert Reid has been appointed chairman of the company, to replace Mi...
Going Dutch?
CGU-owned Dutch insurer Delta Lloyd is in talks with the Dutch life, health and general insurer NUTS...
Torrential storms flood offices of McLarens Toplis.
It never rains but it pours. Following a torrential storm last week, the world caved in on chartered...
A new culture in Germany.
Software provider Rebus Insurance Systems has continued its expansion into Europe, opening a new off...
Customised data.
Royal & Sun Alliance has installed Autograph, Geneva Digital's advanced document composition solutio...
Leicester opening.
Insurer Iron Trades has opened an underwriting operation in Leicester to service the city's brokers....
Launch of Skynet 2001 Ltd.
A vehicle can be given the intelligence to self-report if attacked or seriously damaged in a crash f...
Allianz buys two ventures made in Taiwan.
The giant Zurich Financial Services has sold off two Taiwan ventures to its arch rival Allianz of Ge...
Fraud defence.
A new fraud-busting service has been launched which its inventors claim will slash the legal costs o...
CNA Maritime Challenge trophy presented.
Nigel Jenkins, managing director of CNA Maritime, described the jubilant scenes as "Insane on the Se...
Not everyone's a www.inner on web.
The sale of international public offerings on the World Wide Web has led to a doubling of insurance ...
Appointment at AIG Europe.
AIG Europe (UK) has appointed David Owen as senior consultant within the financial lines division. B...
Victory smoke signal.
A jury in Mississipi has ruled in favour of the tobacco industry in a trial involving a barber shop ...
HS Fishing Company damaged by fire.
HS Fishing Company, Britain's oldest traditional herring smoke house, itself went up in flames recen...
CGU cash donation.
CGU has committed £500 000 to the National Trust's Guardianship scheme for schools over the next fiv...
London's lagging.
The UK insurance industry was slammed at a conference in London last week for ignoring the benefits ...
Worldwide weddings.
With an increasing number of couples planning to marry abroad, NatWest Insurance Services has launch...
Appointment at Lovell White Durrant.
David Alberts has joined the insurance and reinsurance practice of international law firm Lovell Whi...