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Third buy for broker.
Broker Oughtred & Harrison has announced its third acquisition in three months giving the company a ...
Gateway to Success.
Shona Cronin meets Sedgwick's Nick Stanton and discovers how his plan to shake-up the middle market is paying off handsomely.
Insurers win first test case.
The first test case battle has been won in the fight by insurers to receive professional indemnity p...
The need for negligence in liability.
In David Fanning's feature on sports injuries ('Perils of this sporting life', PM, 8 Oct, p29) I hav...
New mortgage exam.
The CII has launched a new Mortgage Advice Qualification, with the first examinations to be held in ...
First e-commerce insurer just around the corner.
The "click here economy" is just around the corner, Philip Crawford, senior vice president of the Or...
NewRo chief says door is always open to the IIB.
NewRo chairman Anthony Howland-Jackson said he still hoped the Institute of Insurance Brokers could ...
And so does Chris.
Chris Parsons, senior lecturer at the Centre for Insurance and Investment Studies at City University...
Adam Richardson ends season in style
Adam Richardson ended the racing season in style, defeating this season's Porsche Classic champion B...
Exclusive - Ex-claims man jailed for fraud.
A former insurance firm employee was jailed for two and a half years this week after being convicted...
Crowe sponsors wheelchair athlete.
Crowe sponsored wheelchair athlete Hadj Lahmar has become the UK's number one half marathon speciali...
Case could launch glut of Nazi claims.
The son of a Jewish couple who were deported from France, robbed of their possessions and murdered i...
Zurich to sell off Eagle Star Re to American giant.
Eagle Star Reinsurance is to be sold by parent company Zurich Financial Services to American firm GE...
Men and women of too many letters.
Society of Financial Advisors president Robert Reid is to push ahead with his drive to cut through t...
£600m Aetna buy.
Lincoln National has closed a £600m purchase of Aetna's individual life business, whose 1997 earning...
Final frontier in cover.
Satellite and aerospace manufacturers, which face multi-million pound fines for failing to deliver o...
IIB: making headlines then and now.
The Institute of Insurance Brokers was making waves ten years ago. Flushed with the success of it...
Capacity for Terra Nova.
Terra Nova (Bermuda) Holdings Ltd announced the results of its participation in the recent Lloyd's c...
Zurich prepares for big bang.
Rocketing claims resulting from bonfire night festivities have sparked one insurance company to issu...
IFST hit list.
This year's UK & European Insurance & Financial Services Technology Conference & Exhibition is set to tackle a host of hot topics. Amid the plethora of mergers taking place around the world, the role of IT in making or breaking a merger.
Brokers warned: Beware of the merger backlash.
Bigger may not always mean better, with risk managers warning that consolidation in the broker marke...
A call for Service.
The advent of call centre technology has dramatically changed the way insurers carry out their business. Jonathan Swift looks at the changes ringing through the industry.
New SOFA executive.
The Society of Financial Advisers, the financial services arm of the Chartered Insurance Institute, ...
No IT, no comment.
The finance sector is, and will continue to be, redefined by the Internet according to a recent repo...