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AMP to cut 1250 jobs in UK
Australian life insurance and funds management group AMP is to cut 1250 jobs at its UK life and pensi...
Bid to end insurers' evidence dilemma.
Local authority public inquiry findings should be published under the protection of qualified privil...
Provident accelerates to £25.4m
Provident Financial, which owns Provident Insurance, Colonnade Insurance Brokers and Colonnade Direct...
Merger sweepstake is underway once again.
Merger mania is underway again after a slow start to the year and speculation over who will be the n...
Remember me? I'm a policyholder.
Customer focus (a dreadful phrase) has always been with us, but for the intelligencia in the insuran...
Crawford & Co Rehabilitation Roadshow.
Loss adjuster Crawford's international business development manager Deborah Edwards (above) addresse...
Job finder out to bridge law firm/insurer divide.
Recruitment consultancy Anankin Seal will launch a new service at the end of the month which aims to...
Appointment at Chambers & Newman.
David Burdett has been made a director of Chambers & Newman Insurance Brokers....
Co-operate with NHS care teams.
Norman Cottington, managing director, The Injury Care Clinics, said: "If we are to be successful at ...
Appointment at CNA Insurance (Europe).
Martin Duffield has been made regional underwriting manager at the Birmingham office of CNA Insuranc...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Several new staff have joined Property & Casualty Services. Four new liability adjusters are Mark Ol...
Hindle to go it alone.
Nat West Life's head of pensions development Joanne Hindle is leaving the high street clearing bank,...
Appointment at Zurich Personal Insurances.
Zurich Personal Insurances has made three new appointments. David Swann has been made underwriting m...
Body of evidence.
Companies offering rehabilitation services have track records proving their success rates. Now all they need, says Steve Banner, is for insurers to take notice of them.
Look abroad for guidance.
Dr Joe Slesenger and Emma Bowd of Independent Medical told delegates that the traditional approach t...
Appointment at Tunbridge Wells Equitable.
Founder of The Independent newspaper Andreas Whittam Smith has been appointed to the board of Tunbri...
Exclusive - Estimating data now on Internet.
Software specialist ARCS has teamed up with motor repair research centre Thatcham to offer bodyshops...
Football competition winners.
John Smith is the third winner in the Avon Insurance Combination Football competition. An insuran...
Company lays foundations for builders to get cash.
A company hopes to ease builders' worries of slow payment from clients and help cut insurer's admini...
Synopsys chosen.
Loss adjuster McLarens Toplis has appointed Synopsys Consulting to develop a web-browser for all bus...
Clarify code for wide acceptance.
Malcolm Henke, national head of common law at Davies Arnold Cooper, made it clear that industry proc...
Police close in on insurers.
More insurers could be questioned by police following the arrest of two ex-Guardian bosses last week...
Insurers sued brokers.
Avon & Others v Swire Fraser 20 January 2000 Court of Appeal Several insurers alleged that t...
Union City blues hit shares.
The stock market has reacted disapprovingly to the proposed merger of CGU and Norwich Union, wiping ...