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Appointment at DAS Legal Expenses.
An extended eight-strong management team has been formed at DAS Legal Expenses. With new chief execu...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Those poor PR types at Guardian Direct were shocked to find that its ATP mens' singles tournament wa...
£940m health plan.
The French government has unveiled plans to extend full public health insurance to low income groups...
Exclusive - Gadgets keep thieves at bay.
SBS, the information technology replacement consultants, believes two personal computer security mea...
Be ready for Woolf.
Employer liability insurer Iron Trades urged intermediaries and corporate clients to get their house...
Banks kept at bay.
Aegon has announced a 24.5% increase in annual net profit to £0.85bn with US results bringing a stro...
£100m profit for Scottish Equitable.
Scottish Equitable, the pension specialist controlled by Dutch insurer Aegon, has broken through the...
Surprise boost for Lloyd's Names.
Lloyd's Names got an unexpected boost in the Budget with a simplification of Capital Gains Tax rules...
Millennium plans vital to fight risk.
Sharing with confidence will help defeat fears over the Millennium Bug, argues Derek Brighton of Reed Elsevier.
Profits up by £38m.
Finnish insurer the Sampo Group reported operating profit of £144m for 1998 - an increase of £38m ov...
Repairers in face off with NU.
Four repair trade associations are to meet tomorrow to discuss Norwich Union's "confrontational" app...
Preferential Travel Insurance.
Preferential Travel Insurance has decided to add avalanche cover to its specialist winter sports pol...
The Loss Recovery Group devises new scheme.
The Loss Recovery Group has devised a new scheme to cut the claims handling costs of brokers. Instea...
Cornhill's £50 offer.
Cornhill has teamed up with high-level security systems provider BT Redcare to cut property claims. ...
Woodburn is first GISC chief.
Months of speculation ended on Tuesday with the announcement that Chris Woodburn would be the first ...
Friends' pension.
Friends Provident has teamed up with investment distributor Hargreaves Lansdown to launch a pension ...
AIUA offers crop of benefits.
Agricultural Insurance Underwriting Agencies has signed a deal with Premium Card to offer improved c...
Answer to Comment piece.
To answer your Comment piece 'Disc plea is like a broken record' (PM 4 March p17) I should like to o...
What the Papers Say.
THE SUN A rugby player paralysed after a scrum collapsed is set to be awarded £1m, the highest po...
A quest for profitability.
An holistic approach by fleet motor insurers could be the only answer in this currently soft market, but risk management still holds the key to success, claims Andrew Newman.
Appointment at Co-operative Insurance.
Stephen Wood, head of investments and deputy general manager at CIS, is to retire this month. Mr Woo...
Workmanlike site for professionals.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
NU's new web site.
Norwich Union Direct has launched a new Internet site (www.norwich-union.co.uk/direct) which it said...
Zurich drops 'disability' definition.
Zurich Life has dropped the definition 'disability' in favour of 'unfit for work' as part of a new r...