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Pet Plan hunts out equine business.
Cornhill Insurance subsidiary Pet Plan is looking to snap up further businesses in the equine market...
Appointment at HSBC.
Andrew Lee has been made a director of HSBC Select, the national telephone broking division of HSBC ...
Weather validation.
Halifax General Insurance Services has installed a new prototype Weather Validation system, which li...
Mishcon sued for negligence.
City firm Mishcon de Reya is facing a hefty negligence claim in a dispute with UCB Corporate Service...
HIH Insurance ties up with Gerling Credit Insurance.
Australia's HIH Insurance has tied up with Germany's Gerling Credit Insurance to provide backing for...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Chris Trickett has been promoted to group facilities manager at Independent Insurance, based at Inde...
Credit hire deal resolves hard line dispute.
There is good news on the long-running and bitter dispute between several composite insurers and cre...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The Church of England will have to sell half its assets to meet the increasin...
Europe steps up Lloyd's investigation.
The European Commission Financial Services Commission has stepped up its investigation into the adeq...
Appointment at XL Brockbank.
Lloyd's managing agency XL Brockbank has made three recent appointments. Following the recruitmen...
UK lags behind.
A survey by MORI and Cranfield School of Management for Microsoft has revealed that while the majori...
Win the talent war.
Talent management is now a burning corporate issue. Julian Aviss believes it is also a golden opport...
Employment: new risks.
Bullying, harassment, discrimination, stress - these are all part of the volatile mix of employment ...
Appointment at Chubb.
Chubb is to combine its Nordic management and European marketing roles under the management of Micha...
Law fails women.
Discrimination is still rife in the legal profession, according to research undertaken by Professor ...
NU e-bank on track.
Norwich Union said this week its plans to launch an online banking service by the end of next year, ...
Claims code sees light of day.
The Association of British Insurers this week rolled out its long-overdue claims code. The code has ...
Marsh tackles rugby cover.
Marsh has launched a new scheme in league with the Rugby Football Union to tackle the issue of impro...
Axa's sweeping changes.
Axa has made sweeping changes to its loss adjusting panel, culling four adjusters from its current g...
BIBA: heave fears.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has warned of the potential risk of "heave", the opposite...
GM battle fought in legal field.
The opponents of genetically modified crops are winning the GM battle. At consumer level, superma...
Helphire makes its peace with insurers.
The expensive and long-running legal battle between insurers and credit hire giant Helphire came clo...
Pool figures high.
The Law Society does not expect to know the number of solicitors in the Assigned Risks Pool until th...
GAB Robins team investigates collapse of homes.
Nine homes in Edinburgh collapsed earlier this week. GAB Robins national subsidence team is investig...