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Sun widens its horizons.
Sun Life Financial of Canada is to broaden its distribution to encompass independent financial advis...
Lloyd's rated A+.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has affirmed its 'A+' insurer financial strength rating of Lloyd's. ...
Zurich buy-back.
Zurich Financial Services is to buy-back £460m of its own shares ahead of the merger of its two hold...
Admiral's elephant aims for big impact.
Direct insurer Admiral has set up a new online company Elephant trading at www.elephant.co.uk. El...
CGNU to sell Quilter.
CGNU has announced plans to sell its 70% stake in private client investment manager Quilter Holdings...
Tower hits an Ace.
Property and casualty insurer Ace Europe is to replace its present paper-based processes with a web-...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Property & Casualty Services has recruited Jean Francois Martel as branch manager at PCS Lyons in Fr...
Helphire issues statement as it heads for loss
Credit hire company Helphire has issued a statement in the light of recent fluctuations in its share ...
Seeking standards.
Bob Scott, chairman of the Association of British Insurers and group chief executive of the UK's biggest insurer CGNU, sits at the centre of British insurance. Anthony Gould heard his ideas for improving the industry's image.
Appointment at TIA Systems (UK).
Tony Withers has joined TIA Systems (UK) as a sales executive. He was previously a major accounts ma...
Scottish Life bids are lining up.
Royal London and Liverpool Victoria have emerged as favourites to take over Scottish Life, after the...
Check your references.
Referencing should not be treated as a recruitment chore. Tim Latham says, if done well, it can save a lot of problems for employers later.
Appointment at Impact Underwriting.
Impact Underwriting has expanded its personal accident underwriting team with the appointment of Rac...
Cybersettle launch delay.
Online claims settlement system, Cybersettle, which was due to be launched in the UK this summer, ha...
Vizard increases clinical strength.
London firm Vizard Oldham has strengthened its clinical negligence practice with the appointment of ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny, who jetted into Sydney last week for the opening ceremony for the Olympics, narrowly missed b...
dotRisk signs up financial partners.
Internet company dotRisk has signed up broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group and insurer Ace Global Ma...
Appointment at Ward Evans Group.
Ward Evans Group has made three new appointments at its head office in York and taken on four new sm...
Amlin profits fall.
Lloyd's insurer Amlin has posted an £11.4m loss for the first six months of 2000, compared to a £5m ...
R v Secretary of State for The Home Department.
Ex parte Gavin Mellor Divisional Court 31 July 2000 During his sentence, a murderer formed a relat...
The appliance of science.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Equitas stresses its high solvency margin.
The headline, "Asbestos claims hike to bring Equitas to the brink" (PM, 14 September, p64) may have ...
Caudle puts syndicate 271 into run-off.
Lloyd's managing agency BF Caudle has put aviation syndicate 271 into run-off. Syndicate 271 (Dav...
Free sites for IFAs.
My Money Adviser, the web-based personal finance specialist, is to offer 10,500 free internet sites ...