News
Plan put into action.
Motability Finance has restructured its vehicle maintenance and buy-back arrangements following two ...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL A Department of Trade and Industry report has revealed how carelessly pulling on a pai...
New partner for Eureko.
Maaf Assurances of France and Eureko - a European alliance of seven financial services and insurance...
Smaller brokers will be 'ethnically cleansed'.
A cabal of large and arrogant organisations will "ethnically cleanse" the small independent broker s...
Appointment at Davies Lavery Solicitors.
Catherine May has joined Davies Lavery as a partner specialising in insurance litigation. She will b...
FSA to be rated.
Chief executives and heads of compliance are to be asked to review the current performance of the Fi...
A bit dry but worth a browse.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Jonathan Wren closes offices.
Recruitment consultant Jonathan Wren has announced it is to close its four regional offices. The ...
Body of evidence.
Structured personal injury payments are commonplace in the US but have so far failed to make any major inroads in the UK. Neil Harris finds out why.
Six considered for privatisation.
The Egyptian government is considering privatising as many as six insurance companies, economic advi...
Sponsorship by equestrian insurer QBE.
Equestrian insurer QBE has galloped to the rescue of show jumping legend Paul Schockenmohle and youn...
Ombudsman resolves more cases, faster.
Complaints to the Invest-ment Ombudsman rose by a third over the last year. Peter Dean, in his th...
Staff on the move.
Staff at the Royal Exchange building, home to Guardian Insurance for 200 years, are set to be rehous...
Appointment at Hextall Erskine.
Jane Beacham has been made a partner at Hextall Erskine. She joined the firm in 1992 and specialises...
Hard to crack.
Companies from a variety of sectors are queuing up at insurers' doors to offer their services as outsourcers. The trouble is, their enthusiasm is often not shared, or understood, by the insurance firms.
Insurance & Law Debate.
THE MOTION: "At the turn of the 20th Century insurance remains as much a 'contract upon speculati...
Hospital fund loses appeal.
The Manchester and Salford Hospital Saturday Fund was established towards the end of the 19th centur...
Bravo for Alpha.
Lincoln has purchased Marlborough Stirling's Alpha calculations engine. The system will provide c...
Minibus Plus deliver vehicle.
Lionel Blair was on hand to assist scheme broker Minibus Plus managing director Andrew Butterworth a...
Swiss ups income.
Swiss Life, Switzerland's biggest life insurer, has increased its 1998 net income by 79% to £1.2bn. ...
Jacko wins case.
Lloyd's has lost out in a battle to avoid paying out on a cancelled Michael Jackson concert followin...
Acoat Bodyshop Services conference.
Repairer networks have been told to invest in technology to streamline their businesses, even if it ...
The sail provider.
Insurer CGU has unveiled its entry for next year's BT Global Challenge, dubbed the 'world's toughest...
A remedy for years of pension botch-ups.
The only reason pensions are so complicated is because government after government has meddled in an effort to reform the system. Steve Bee argues that it does not have to be this way.