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Mergers weigh heavy on insurers' minds.
Survey shows many bosses fear mergers and acquistitions and are concerned about introduction of the euro.
RBS in IFA link-up.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has linked up with IFA Portfolio Mortgage Panel as more and more lenders ...
Broker cements building deal.
J & H Marsh McLennan and the Scottish Building Employers' Federation have completed a deal which del...
Antiques alert goes out.
Antique dealers are being warned about an "alarming increase" in thefts, some involving sledgehammer...
French say 'oui' to risk.
The French government has taken the plunge into the private risk insurance market by signing a 10-ye...
Big guns call for 'pensions for all'.
Three major insurers have urged the government to bite the bullet and compel people to save for thei...
Gordon saves the day.
Goalkeeping legend Gordon Banks helped MiniBusPlus, the largest UK supplier of minibus insurance, to...
New trade body, new leader.
The appointment of Marie-Louise Rossi as chief executive of the new, yet-to-be named London market t...
Time right for honour.
Guardian Group executive director (marketing), Ray Pierce, presented up and coming touring car maest...
Insurers not playing by redundancy rules'.
Union chiefs have blasted the insurance industry for "not playing by the rules", and "hiding behind ...
US health law is failing.
A law intended to guarantee health coverage for Americans who change employment is not working out a...
Going solo.
Sole supplier arrangements are the inevitable outcome of insurers cutting the size of their loss adjusting panels. Liz Loxton finds out what the market think about this trend.
£1m Hillsboro payout.
A £1m award to a victim of the Hillsborough disaster is unlikely to spell trouble for insurers. S...
Davidson says professionalism is missing link for success.
Closing the conference, Chartered Insurance Institute president Ken Davidson said that increased pro...
Irish Life reports rise in profits.
Irish Life, Ireland's largest insurer, last week reported a rise in operating profit of 21% in 1997 ...
Merger chief must bring a dose of commonsense.
The white smoke has at long last emerged from the lofty portals of the London market and we have a c...
Easing pain of prescription hike.
Western Provident Association is pushing its cash injection policy to help ease the pain of increase...
Financial illiterates.
Many people are ill-prepared to make financial decisions because of poor basic financial literacy, s...
Insurers can plug gaps in DSS'.
Insurers can help patch the the holes in the increasingly threadbare social security blanket, advise...
Witchell a success as chairman.
BBC Newscaster Nicholas Witchell chaired the Insurance '98 to the Millennium conference. Througho...
Sewing the seeds of the LIA 50 years early.
The Life Insurance Association has just celebrated its 25th anniversary, but may be the seeds of its...
Population must become savers.
Demos deputy director Ian Christie warned the conference audience how "an ageing UK population must ...
Two go at Hiscox.
A damage limitation exercise was activated this week by a Lloyd's syndicate following the revelation...
I'll be back says RSA skipper.
Devastated but determined to try again was the feeling on board the Royal & SunAlliance catamaran th...