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Sampo quits UK.
The UK arm of Scandinavian giant insurer Sampo Leonia has been put up for sale by its parent company...
Brit ebix.com deal.
Brit Insurance has acquired a 30% stake in Nasdaq-quoted software and internet solution provider ebi...
Appointment at August Group.
August Group has made several appointments: Paul Neale joins as sales executive from Albis Associate...
SBJ kicks injury claim into touch.
Sports insurance specialist SBJ has refused to comment on press reports that it is in dispute with S...
Independent issues warning
Independent Insurance has warned that its 2000 operating profits will be less tham market expectation...
Transparency only cure for dirty tricks.
Rumours and gossip are part and parcel of the small cottage industry that is insurance. However, the...
Bupa backs Generali.
Bupa has taken over the administration of £3m-worth of group risk business from Generali. The portfo...
Appointment at Bupa.
Bupa has appointed Martin Noone as head of intermediary sales. He joined the company in 1997 and bef...
Integration over at Ace.
Bermuda-based insurance group Ace signalled the end of the process of integrating the former Cigna p...
New DVT cover.
Club Direct has amended its travel products in the wake of the growing debate over the risk of deep ...
Calling all team players.
The rise of the call centre has brought opportunities to the regions, and with the scope of the job changing all the time, loyal staff can call the shots, says Edward Murray.
Brokers slammed.
The British Insurance Brokers Association has defended its members over accusations by technology co...
Capita fears over Abbey buyout.
Capita Eastgate, which last month signed a 10-year outsourcing contract to handle Abbey National's g...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny has heard that Claims Direct's attempts to court insurers could be going all the way to the be...
California shakes up complaint process.
The US state of California, which was rocked last year by the Chuck Quackenbush scandal in which the...
Rapid pace for P&C.
Wall Street stock analysts expect premium growth in the property & casualty industry to reach 7.4% t...
Talking about an e-revolution.
Brokers can charge clients a higher rate of interest if they move from insurers' schemes to a single premium finance house, especially as finance houses move to electronic data interchange (EDI). Simon Threadgold reports on the dynamics of a fast…
Lloyd's exodus claim is outrageous.
The scaremongering headline Road ends for Lloyd's motor (PM, 25 January, p2) is based on totally mis...
Masking the problem.
As claim and counter claim is made in the furore surrounding the compensation shortfall created by the liquidation of Chester Street Insurance Holdings, Edward Murray sifts through the facts.
Appointment at Miller Fisher.
Philip Austin has been made an associate director of Miller Fisher Loss Adjusters to head its fine a...
Flood defences.
MPs have urged the government to appoint a flood czar to help streamline the system for handling dis...
A Winter's tale.
Oxford-based broker Thomas Winter has been appointed as the sole approved broker of the Scottish Fed...
Hanover deal.
Scheme broker Hanover Park Commercial has signed up Norwich Union and Axa to jointly underwrite a ne...
Classic cover.
High net worth specialist RK Harrison has teamed up with Axa to offer an exclusive product Classic P...