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Pension compensation.
Insurance firms should compensate investors who opted out of pension schemes at a rate of 5% of sala...
Disappointed with the response.
Disappointed with the response of the Competition Directorate of the European Commission (DGIV), the...
In place of strife.
Alternative dispute resolution should suit insurers down to the ground, but how many companies are using it and what are its advantages. Victoria Jordan investigates.
Playing by job-cutting rules.
In the wake of several huge mergers across the European insurance industry, Harriet Eisner explains how the trade union MSF is arguing for changes in the way companies behave towards their staff.
Unconnected claims could not be added.
It was not open to a reinsured to add together unconnected claims which it had paid under underlying...
2000 could bring aircraft disasters.
Insurers are warning that planes could crash in 2000 if their technology is non-millennium-compliant...
Archer aims at D&Os.
Archer Underwriting is hoping to hit the target with its new worldwide policy for company managers a...
What the papers say.
THE SUN The latest chart-topping girl band, All Saints, ran for their insurance policies when the...
Counting the pennies.
Cathy Hargreaves and Jamie Randell explain why the threatened removal of VAT group treatment could have a catastrophic effect for insurers.
Still in the dark over stakeholder pensions.
Are we much wiser about the government's plans for stakeholder pensions after the announcements last...
Bid to claw back £3bn.
The industry has moved to slash the estimated £3bn lost to businesses last year because of employee ...
CNA's services bid.
CNA, the fourth largest US property and casualty insurer, has asked the office of thrift supervision...
Rossi calls for Euro market.
Marie-Louise Rossi, the new chief executive designate of the London market association to be created...
Underwriting profits double at Lloyd's.
Underwriting profits at Lloyd's for 1995 rose from 7.8% to 14.4% on underwriting capacity, with Lomo...
Double win for Higos.
Somerset intermediary Higos Insurance Services won £10,000 in a competition run by Zurich Insurance....
Survey yields alarming results.
A survey by consultants KMPG has found that over 74% of companies have not tested the security of th...
Banned bikers could soon be back.
Banned bikers could soon be back in the saddle thanks to a new policy offered by highway, and insura...
J&H Marsh & McLennan acquires Turkish broker.
American broking giant J&H Marsh & McLennan has acquired Turkey's leading insurance and reinsurance ...
Crime prevention.
Commercial Union is scouring the Internet for crime busters, having launched a web site in the lates...
Swiss system refit.
Swiss Life UK has invested in a revolutionary intranet developed by European IT services groups CMG ...
Subsidence claims set to total £40m.
Subsidence claims continue to eat huge holes in claims budgets, with insurers set to pay out an extr...
Hello Marie-Lou, goodbye hard.
How many readers noticed the image change of Marie-Lousie Rossi on her appointment of the new, yet-t...
Taking it personally.
Selling personal accident cover is still proving as troublesome ever. Meanwhile, claims are rising and so too are the different ways employees are being injured. Ruth Addicott asks how insurers are tackling this problem area.
Insurers furious at Euro red tape.
European red tape could bind the hands of sellers of non-life insurance. The Association of Briti...