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Timothy Benn Publishing to merge with City Financial Communications.
Post Magazine's owner, Timothy Benn Publishing, is to merge with City Financial Communications, publ...
High-street chains step on brokers' toes.
The threat to traditional distribution channels posed by the remorseless march of the high-street re...
Difficulties, but life reaches new heights.
Fifty years ago, the review of the year showed growth in the life market and problems in the general...
QBE: plan to sell off motor advances.
Australian insurer QBE has announced that it plans to sell Syndicate 980, Ensign Motor Policies at L...
JLT profits up 7%.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson recorded pre-tax profits for the first six months of the year up 7% to...
Africa has always been there.
In your article Happy Birthday to us (PM, 27 July, p21) you refer to "large parts of Africa in parti...
Japanese merger.
Japan's Koa Fire & Marine Insurance and Nippon Fire & Marine Insurance Co are to adopt a one-for-one...
Appointment at GAB Robins.
Bob Swann has joined GAB Robins as part of its business interruption and accountancy team. Mr Swan i...
AFG gets world-first Worldview.
Insurance broker Alexander Forbes Group has become the first customer to buy the Worldview system fr...
APIL calls for urgent PI claims talks.
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has called for an urgent meeting with the Forum of Insura...
No win, no fee push by society.
Personal injury insurance specialist Abbey Legal Protection hopes to benefit from the Law Society's ...
Inter-Alliance aims to raise £16.2m
Inter-Alliance Group, one of the UK's leading independent financial advisers, has announced plans to ...
New Choice Quote.
Leeds broker Choice Quote is to open a new arm on Monday after acquiring part of Fielding Mann, a su...
... a claims manager.
Technology has greatly changed the face of claims management, but the challenges are still there. This is what fires Mike Noonan with enthusiasm for his job at Iron Trades, as David Worsfold discovered.
Churchill gets A&L motor.
Direct insurer Churchill has won a contract with Alliance & Leicester to offer motor insurance to it...
Hanover Park fined.
The Personal Investment Authority has fined Hanover Park Financial Services of Upper Norwood, London...
St James woos Italian market.
The UK financial services group St James Place, which includes J Rothschild Assurance Group, plans t...
Database detection.
A new company aims to assist insurers in their investigations. The database, www.investigatorsworld....
Unsmooth operators.
A survey of 300 business managers from industry sectors including the insurance market, has shown th...
Appointment at Insurex Expo-Sure.
Two new staff have joined the underwriting team at Insurex Expo-Sure. Tracy Roberts was previously a...
Rate war hampers new legal market.
The £250m solicitors' indemnity market is in turmoil only a month before the start of the new commer...
Appointment at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed Chris Lemar as partner in charge of the dispute analysis & inve...
Chinese insurers seek a listing.
Two of China's three state-owned insurers have suggested they could seek a listing in response to th...