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Claims Direct split.
Claims Direct is to re-engineer its business into five regionally-focused groups, but said it would ...
FOIL in ATE climb down.
The Forum of Insurance Lawyers appears to have backed down in its battle against the after-the-event...
A moving animal problem is cultivating risk.
Many sectors of the insurance industry are nervously watching the development of the foot and mouth ...
ABI fees squeeze out the smaller firms.
Is the Association of British Insurers trying to drive smaller companies out of business, or just ou...
Escalating e-business means new opportunities in cybercover.
Escalating internet crime will create a vast and valuable market for risk consultants and insurance ...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Property & Casualty Services has made Nicola Ingram vocational rehabilitation case manager. She will...
With-profits call for transparency to give confidence.
The actuarial profession has called for greater transparency to restore consumer confidence in with-...
Disease crisis cows insurers.
As the foot and mouth outbreak officially became a crisis - with the setting up of a Prime Ministeri...
MAFF considers livestock cover.
Insurers have scoffed at the idea of a compulsory insurance scheme for farmers in the wake of the fo...
Banking on Allianz.
German insurer Allianz has set up dedicated sales outlets in 10 branch offices of the Dresdner Bank ...
Salvage the Safe way.
UK retailer Safeway Stores has chosen UK salvage service provider Universal Salvage to handle its na...
Action needed to drive out the uninsured.
Mr Rodgers is correct and I was referring to RTA certificates (PM, 15 February, p16). Like him, I kn...
Appointment at Fortis.
Georges Valckenaere has been made adviser to Anton van Rossum, chief executive officer of Fortis in ...
Workplace partners.
IT Direct at Lloyd's, the IT procurement channel for purchasing in the Lloyd's market has announced ...
London market: ways of selling the expertise.
The Post Magazine management briefings come right to the heart of the London market on 17 May, when ...
Driving force.
In a change to traditional methods of catching uninsured drivers, a new initiative sees the insurance industry and the government working together on a database of registered vehicles. Hopes are high it will deliver the desired results, says Simon…
Sentence due in fraud case.
Seven fraudsters await sentencing on 30 March, following an investigation led by loss adjuster Mille...
Eurobase to close Synergy deal.
Technology systems provider Eurobase is set to complete a deal with a global media consultancy to in...
Joint cargo venture.
Tri-Mex International, providers of cargo monitoring telematics services, and Thomas Miller, which m...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiastical has reorganised its claims department. As the new manager of claims operations, Derek...
A strong Finnish.
Rating Agency Standard & Poors has announced a "stable look" on the Finnish insurance market, in lig...
Appointment at Winchester White.
Winchester White has appointed Tracy Shadbolt as senior consultant. Tracy joins from Mynd/CSC where ...
What the Papers Say.
THE MIRROR When Cecily Gray's husband died, she wrote to car insurers Axa to request a refund on ...
WISe appointment.
WISe, the principal standards body for the global insurance industry, has appointed Alison Payne as ...