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Lateral thinking.
It is time for professional indemnity cover to catch up with the modern-day workplace, says Marcus Alcock. So far PI insurers have concentrated on traditional sectors but, as areas such as contractual work become more popular, so a new market opens up.
NU drops mortgage.
Norwich Union has quit the mortgage market and sold its £200m book of business to Skipton Building S...
Mann & Holt v Lexington Insurance Company.
Court of Appeal 11 November 2000 The Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal of the claimant rei...
Wait for MP cover.
Insurers will have to wait until the new year to find out what the House of Commons requires from th...
Risk managers: the new breed.
As risk exposures widen for businesses, demand for people with the skills to manage those risks means recruiters have their work cut out, say Lesley Winrow and Carol Connolly.
Zurich in Malaysia.
Zurich Re has opened a marketing office in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia to provide a full range of reinsur...
Tesco enters life insurance market.
Supermarket giant Tesco has entered the life insurance market, selling term assurance products throu...
An Assure-dlink.
Electronic business service company, ICL, has delivered its online quotation service, OmniQuote, to ...
Words of warming.
The severe storms and floods witnessed over the past month could become much more common throughout ...
Appointment at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Pricewaterhouse Coopers dispute analysis & investigations has appointed Chris Barrett to the new rol...
Ultimate clarification.
Re: Article from Post Magazine, 26 October, p3, regarding Ultimate Insurance Services. We would l...
Appointment at Standard Life.
Jonathan Cobb is joining standard life investments. Mr Cobb will be part of the UK Equity team and w...
Future credit good.
A study by Swiss Re has outlined a positive future for the credit insurance industry. It claims ther...
Allianz gets US listing approval
German insurer Allianz has been given approval by the US regulators to list on Wall Street, a move wh...
Broker scraps network plan.
Shropshire-based Millennium Insurance has abandoned a deal with financing company Cheque Centres tha...
Convoy from Bosnia Red Cross and Land Rovers Club take supplies.
Insurance professionals Max Spurgeon, right, and Paul Devlin of Medical Sickness Society and Devlin ...
Canada Life cuts.
Canada Life has cut its term assurance rates, including its class 1 level, renewable and mortgage pr...
Appointment at Lawclub Legal Protection.
Steven Skeldon has been recruited as marketing manager. Mr Skeldon was formerly marketing manager at...
Lloyd's wants to open up to public.
Lloyd's Insurance Brokers Committee has commissioned technology company MMT to develop an informatio...
Methven v Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
Court of Appeal 10 October 2000 The defendant's vehicle was attending an emergency and the flas...
BIBA wins further concessions from GISC for members.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has won further concessions regarding membership of the G...
Poor training: poor advice?
Lloyds TSB General Insurance Holdings & others v Lloyds Bank Group Insurance Co and Abbey National v...
CIS: no genetic tests.
Co-operative Insurance Society has said it will not require customers to disclose details of any gen...
Living in the future.
The actuarial profession has rejected the idea that an aging population will mean a lower standard o...