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Appointment at Methodist Insurance.
Ron Barnet has been promoted from product development officer to underwriting manager at Methodist I...
CGU Life's sponsorship of National Cricket League.
Negotiations for CGU Life's sponsorship of the new National Cricket League took almost as long as a ...
Skandia profits up.
NIG Skandia has reported a pre-tax profit for 1998 of £18m, an increase of almost £6m on 1997. The i...
European union for Warren Hill.
Small business insurance specialist Warren Hill has decided to branch out into Europe. The niche ...
Exclusive - TIFCO hunts for brokers.
Premium finance provider TIFCO said this week it was looking to hire an extra 250 brokers despite ha...
NU's clean bill for health.
Norwich Union Healthcare has launched Fair and Square, which aims to broaden the private medical ins...
Francis gets ABI job.
Industry outsider Mary Francis has been appointed the next director general of the Association of Br...
Davies refuses to put FSA name to mortgages.
Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Services Authority has ignored demands for the regulator to...
Appointment at Joslin Rowe.
Former Scottish and British Lions rugby captain Gavin Hastings OBE has been appointed as a non-execu...
Britannic stands by door-to-door sales.
Britannic Assurance has reported a near 9% rise in pre-tax profits and reaffirmed its commitment to ...
Everyone wins with taped calls.
The most important section of the Insurance Ombudsman's annual report is the passage about the use o...
UK takeover.
The retail insurance division of CSC Financial Services is to take over responsibility for the UK op...
Centrica picks Aon.
Aon Consulting has been appointed by the energy and service group, Centrica, to administer its pensi...
Book now or miss out.
The not-to-be missed Post Magazine strategic business conference, Insurance 99, is next Thursday, 18...
Appointment at CS Rand.
Bernie Hopkins has been made managing director of CS Rand. Previously he was the company's finance u...
Share Watch.
They say that share buy-backs are the last resort of a management team which has lost its direction,...
Eagle Star sold to ERC Frankona.
ERC Frankona has bought Eagle Star Re from Zurich Financial Services for an undisclosed sum, in a mo...
Vote of confidence for Polaris.
Polaris, which was set up to provide common standards in electronic trading services, has said it pl...
IOPC signs deal with Italian government.
The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund has signed a £42.9m deal with the Italian governme...
Purr-fect ISAs?
Virgin Direct has launched three CAT standard Individual Savings Accounts. The stocks and shares, ca...
Appointment at Pegasystems.
Rob Dalzall has joined Pegasystems as a European sales manager for the insurance market. Previously ...
Post price goes up.
The price of Post Magazine is to go up from 1 April after five years at the same level. However, any...
All change in broker top 50.
Only four of the top 50 profit-making insurance brokers in 1993 are still there according to the lat...
Union would never 'welcome' the mass loss of jobs.
I refer to your news item headed 'Union supports scrapping sales force' (PM 4 March p4). It states t...