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Fire safety week.
The Fire Protection Association will run this year's fire safety week from Saturday until 2 October....
Policy Master profits.
Software company Policy Master this week recorded operating profits up 37% to £639,000 in the six mo...
Who's speaking?
A former commissioner to the United Nations Compensation Commission and a South African underwriter ...
Public views hall.
Staple Inn Hall, the historic home of the Institute of Actuaries, opened its doors to the public on ...
Zurich brands buy backs as a gimmick.
Zurich Life has slammed the buy-back option offered by some critical illness insurers as a 'gimmick'...
SLPH makes Haste.
Andy Haste has been made chief executive of Sun Life and Provincial Holdings. He replaces Les Owe...
Edging out into cyberspace.
Post Magazine decided to find out whether all the talk about e-commerce was being matched by action. Alex Broad looks at the results of our survey of insurance organisations.
CBS Scheme tenders hit over £140m
Lloyd's agency Christie Brockbank Shipton has received tenders amounting to a total of £141.9m capaci...
Appointment at Royal Liver Assurance.
Bryan Barnacle has been appointed a non-executive director of Royal Liver Assurance, replacing Godfr...
CGU in Romania.
CGU has announced a further expansion of its central and eastern European operations by entering the...
Insurers meet in London over Holocaust payments
A meeting of the international panel set up to ensure European insurers honour policies to Holocaust ...
Zenith and Admiral MBOs are go
Direct motor insurer Admiral, and motor insurer Zenith have been given the go-ahead for their propose...
Everest to move to Bermuda
Everest Re forms Bermuda holding company
Independent looks to Israel as it gears up for e-commerce initiative
Independent Insurance is looking at outsourcing work to Israel as part of a major push into e-commerc...
Cornhill pulls out of health
Cornhill Insurance has decided to withdraw from the healthcare market having failed to make any real ...
Insurers falling behind claims online company
Insurers have failed to keep pace with changes in the small commercial market place claimed the compa...
Bermuda exchange closes
Suspension of trading on the Bermudian Commodities Exchange will have little impact, because there wa...
Cox bites into Internet apple
Internet service provider Freeserve to launch an online, integrated insurance service in the UK next ...
GAB Robins acquired by US investment firm
Loss adjuster GAB Robins, which has been waiting for months to announce its new parent, has finally ...
Offer wins Swan Cup.
The fourth annual Avon Insurance Golf Day saw Adrian Offer of Morgan Insurance Brokers, (left) put i...
CGU: cutting edge for brokers.
CGU has produced a three-stage guide for brokers doing business in the next century called The Cutti...
Making a difference.
Vauxhall has launched a gap insurance product throughout its dealer network to cover motorists for t...
Exclusive - IBM: higher levels for data.
Customer relationship management software has been taken to a new level by solutions company IBM. ...
RSI claims results not predictable.
In my experience, it is not always a foregone conclusion that a decision will be reached which favou...