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Snap happy insurer.
Towergate Underwriting Group has bolstered its photography insurance division, with the acquisition ...
RSA's Management Assurance: four sign.
Royal & Sun Alliance has signed up four UK law firms as partners to its new portfolio of covers aime...
Tactical adjustments.
Shrinking panels and competition for work from other professions are forcing loss adjusters to consider their position in the industry. The flexibility they must now adopt is expanding the recruitment consultants skills checklist, says Lynn Rouse.
Blaze at Shopping Direct.
A blaze at satellite television company Shopping Direct may result in a multi-million pound claim, a...
Exaxe to enter UK life market.
Dublin-based consultancy and software developer, Exaxe, is looking to move into the UK life and pens...
Holiday packaged.
Sixty per cent of all holiday-makers still buy insurance packaged with their holiday, according to a...
Autumn deadline for shake-out.
Brokers and intermediaries have until 1 September to apply for membership of the General Insurance S...
Fraud scheme delay.
Technical problems are holding up industry attempts to clamp down on fraud, with several insurers ha...
CPI - cost-effective professional service across the industry.
CPI countrywide, formally Countrywide Property Inspections, is pleased to sponsor Post Magazine's la...
CII set to get GISC green light on training.
The Chartered Insurance Institute should today receive confirmation it has been chosen as one of the...
Kiln to review Link business.
Kiln is to conduct a strategic review of its business, which could lead to the disposal of its retai...
Mystery shoppers.
Undercover personnel from the Financial Services Authority have been posing as consumers to rate sel...
Halifax reviews Equitable Life.
UK bank Halifax is set to undertake a review of Equitable Life's legal service providers. The mov...
Axa denies UK motor blacklist.
Axa has denied a situation could arise in the UK where it would blacklist an entire area for motor i...
ABI denies asbestosis claims
The Association of British Insurers has responded to the Trade Unions' Congress' demand that full com...
Space capacity drops
Insurance capacity for space risks is falling, according to Benito Pagnanelli, the deputy general man...
Life boosts Gerling
Gerling Global Re has reported a 10% increase in its gross premiums for last year to DM 8.1bn ($3.9bn...
Go-ahead for Galileo would benefit insurers
The European Commission (EC) has today been putting pressure on aerospace firms to stump up initial f...
Aon and former managers settle out of court
Broker Aon has won an out of court victory totalling more than £250 000 against four former employees...
QBE up 28% in first half
Lloyd's giant and acquisitive Australian-based insurer QBE Insurance Group has recorded a 28% increas...
Hannover predicts profit leap for 2000
Hannover Re, the world's fifth largest reinsurer, has said it expects its net income for 2000 to be u...
IIB welcomes GISC deadline
The Institute of Insurance Brokers has welcomed the General Insurance Standards Council's decision to...
Paltry payouts confirmed for asbestosis victims
The administrators of Chester Street Insurance Holdings have confirmed that asbestosis victims will o...
Climate changes increase cats
Climate change is increasing the number of natural catastrophes and the losses they generate, accordi...