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Unsmooth operators.
A survey of 300 business managers from industry sectors including the insurance market, has shown th...
Appointment at Insurex Expo-Sure.
Two new staff have joined the underwriting team at Insurex Expo-Sure. Tracy Roberts was previously a...
Rate war hampers new legal market.
The £250m solicitors' indemnity market is in turmoil only a month before the start of the new commer...
Appointment at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed Chris Lemar as partner in charge of the dispute analysis & inve...
Chinese insurers seek a listing.
Two of China's three state-owned insurers have suggested they could seek a listing in response to th...
Insurers in line for online savings.
Online insurance exchanges could save the general insurance market $20bn (£12.5bn), according to a r...
Through the net.
Internet-based purchasing systems have been implemented by only 14% of the Chartered Institute of Pu...
Appointment at International Risk Management Group.
The International Risk Management Group has recruited employee benefits specialist Markus Mende. Mr ...
SM seeks new funds.
To promote its unit-linked, risk-graded funds, Scottish Mutual is sending out new sales packs to 450...
Kingsbridge scheme.
Niche independent financial adviser Kingsbridge, which recently floated on the alternative investmen...
Miller Pycraft to investigate £250,000 loss.
CGU has instructed loss adjuster Miller Pycraft to investigate a £250,000 loss at Scrooges retail an...
What the Papers Say.
THE TIMES The owner of a factory bombed by the United States in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, i...
Appointment at Scottish Widows.
Scottish Widows has made a series of appointments to its investment management teams. Lloyd Branford...
Gunning for the ageists.
Your article Young guns can be low calibre (PM, 20 July, p24) hit the nail on the head. Employers...
Chubb profits rise.
US insurer Chubb has recorded a 10% increase in its profits for the second-quarter of the year with ...
Drawing the battle-lines.
Post Magazine reported a wake-up call to loss adjusters at this year's CILA conference with the headline "Lawyers pose real threat to adjusters". Veronica Cowan finds out how true this really is.
Calls for LTC rules to cut mis-selling mishaps.
The government must act quickly to introduce new legislation to avoid mis-selling over long-term car...
Audatex: BMW seal.
The new real-time bodyshop management system from estimating specialist Audatex has been approved by...
Scottish Widows' new deal to offset SCC loss.
Scottish Widows is poised to offset the loss of the £700m contract for the Suffolk County Council pe...
Boost for CI sector.
The critical illness market got a boost this week as the Inland Revenue reached an agreement with th...
Sax Riley to take helm at Lloyd's.
Marsh director Sax Riley will be the next chairman of Lloyd's, after the present incumbent Max Taylo...
Ringing the value-added changes.
Andrew Newman looks at developments in call centre training, which must now add a new dimension with the rise of companies outsourcing claims.
LTC ruling opens up market.
The government's long-overdue response to the Royal Commission's report on long-term care in the UK ...
Insurance contribution towards Thames Water's five-phase plan - Up
In the fourth in our series in association with the Chartered Insurance Institute Society of Fellows, Lloyd Clark-Morris analyses the issue of rising water tables and how the industry should respond.