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Insurance against cold weather.
A chain of City wine bars has taken out insurance against cold weather. Corney & Barrow has signed a...
Package revamped.
Insurer Unum's sales package for IFAs, ProductPartner 2.2, has been revamped. The upgraded version h...
Heath Lambert clinches funding deal.
A leading insurance finance specialist has signed a deal to provide indemnity funding for broker Hea...
Smith backs ECA.
Legal and General e-commerce director Margaret Smith has applauded the new Electronic Commun-ication...
Britannic to 'look at' axed Colonial staff.
Britannic Assurance looks set to take on some of the 490-strong Colonial salesforce who have been to...
Appointment at Reliance National Insurance.
Stuart McAlister has been made assistant manager of the casualty division of Reliance National Insur...
FSA must not ignore IT.
The Financial Services Authority's proposed new rulebook should take greater account of new technolo...
Appointment at Bupa Health Assurance.
Brian Bartley has been appointed head of operations at Bupa Health Assurance. He joined Bupa's insur...
Odyssey rationalises.
Odyssey Re is transferring its London market branch operations to syndicate 1218 as parent company F...
New plans at Bupa.
New commission rates on corporate, small company and personal business schemes for Bupa Cash Plan ar...
RMI rethink.
At a recent Retail Motor Industry Federation London body repairers' meeting, it was decided that tho...
CGU Life gives help to IFAs.
IFAs have been offered the chance to pre-empt the introduction of stakeholder pensions with the laun...
Use it or lose it.
The Internet will not kill off other customer channels, but insurers must focus its use or lose out ...
BackCare's Reeback.
Funding from insurer Swiss Life has enabled BackCare, formerly the National Back Pain Association, t...
Online launch.
An online general liability product for small and medium-sized companies has been launched by Fusion...
Merger forms £10m broker.
Guaranteeing broker Edgar Hamilton is merging with fellow Lloyd's broker FE Wright to create a new e...
Appointment at Fortis.
David Voute has been appointed as general manager of corporate communications at international insur...
Appointment at William M Mercer.
Elaine O'Keefe has been appointed as senior communication consultant and team leader at William M Me...
Free legal cover.
Das Legal Expenses has signed a major deal to provide a leading household insurer with free mandator...
Surrey for esure.
The new Halifax Building Society-backed Internet company, esure, has decided to set up its head offi...
New Inter managers.
Leading assistance provider Inter Partner has restructured its business team to ensure closer workin...
Lutine is launched.
Ex-Edgar Hamilton director Kevin Spencer is to launch a new high-tech underwriting agency covering t...
Wesleyan brings IT in-house.
Mutual life insurer Wesleyan Assurance Society is to move its IT department back in-house to new pre...
Appointment at Computer Sciences Corporation.
Peter Gregory has joined CSC as a business consultant. He has more than 10 years' experience in the ...