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Aon forms risk team.
Aon is to establish a new risk benefits practice team from 1 January to cope with the growth in this...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill Engineering.
Phil Godwin has been promoted to business development manager by Allianz Cornhill Engineering. Previ...
Direct training.
Insurer Hastings Direct has launched a new claims negotiator training programme, developed in associ...
Guilty as charged.
The last paragraph of our legal report on the Equitable Life Assurance Society versus Human Chancery...
Scot Prov website.
Scottish Provident International has created a new website. Advisers and brokers can use The IFA Cen...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A driver who has lost an appeal against a careless driving conviction had a c...
Allstate set to axe 4000 jobs.
US insurance giant Allstate is to cut 4000 non-agent jobs in a bid to overhaul its distribution netw...
First pasta post.
The Italian life and pensions market, which recently introduced private pensions, is forecast to out...
No need for sensationalism.
In last week's issue you described me as "lashing out" at insurers for dumbing down the claims proce...
Pondering Paddington.
In the recent collision of two trains near Paddington Station, 31 people died and over 160 were inju...
Axa site proves big is not always best.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Size matters to Alan.
Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers is to move into a larger office, reflecting its recent growth. The No...
Getting a grip on complaints.
The Financial Services Authority's proposals for the new Ombudsman scheme, unveiled last week, have ...
Bid to bar merger.
Polish Insurer PZU has taken steps to stop the merger of the country's two largest banks. It is beli...
At breaking point.
As we approach the end of the 20th century it seems a good time to ask just how far the claims manag...
£30m pain in Spain.
Dutch insurer Aegon has announced that in the first nine months of 1999 its total earnings were up 2...
Zurich IFA Group staff support Crisis.
Zurich IFA Group staff have been getting their knickers in a twist in support of homeless charity Cr...
IBM updates insurance system.
IBM has updated its operational client management system, CIIS for Insurance. CIIS consolidates i...
Denver deal is done.
Insurance software provider Policy Master has acquired Denver-based Insurance Business Solutions for...
Room service.
An IT supplier to the insurance industry has a policy of recruiting before a new contract is secured...
Women banned from kitchen.
The Royal Marines were entitled to refuse to engage a woman as a chef even though under European Uni...
Lloyd's facing black hole in space market.
Aviation and space markets at Lloyd's face a perilous future, with heavy losses hitting hard and lit...
Shutting out deja vu.
The 80s housing crash sent professional indemnity claims rocketing. Sarah Grant asks if the same thing could happen again.
Online to save.
Everybody accepts that e-commerce is the way forward for businesses in the 21st century, so with the technology there for the taking, how much use are insurers making of new innovations? Richard Griffiths finds out.