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No respite in sight.
The commercial property market has been a battleground for insurers during recent years. David Fanning talks to several big players who reveal the problems underwriters face.
Guide for IFAs.
Legal & General is offering a free desktop 'Guide to Inland Revenue Limits' to independent financial...
RSA grabs £30m Zurich business.
Royal & Sun Alliance has captured Zurich Life's £30m group risks portfolio, providing a significant ...
Appointment at inspop.com.
The independent insurance website inspop.com, which is due to launch next month, has recruited John ...
Beware: the worst of the US has yet to reach us.
Tim Diveley, worldwide general claims manager of Chubb, warned that many of the worst aspects of the...
Appointment at Ernst & Young.
Trevor Newbery has been appointed by Ernst & Young to run the team which will act as compliance moni...
New Wesleyan trust.
Wesleyan Financial Services has launched a new unit trust, the Wesleyan International Trust, which a...
On the up down under?
Australia's largest general insurer NRMA Insurance, which is due to lose its mutuality status when i...
Appointment at Zurich IFA Group.
Kevin Pearce has been made protection marketing director for Zurich IFA Group. He will replace John ...
Law firms merge.
Corporate law firms Hammond Suddards and Edge Ellison are to merge with effect from 1 August. The me...
Claims patterns are changing.
David Worsfold reports on last week's Liability in Crisis conference, a PM Management briefing, sponsored by GAB Robins.
Canny canoe cover.
A new insurance policy offering cover for canoes and manually propelled leisure craft has been launc...
Appointment at Kennedys.
Spanish lawyer Miguel Gallardo, who is legal adviser to the commercial office of the Spanish Embassy...
Crawford coup.
Loss adjuster Crawford & Company has won the contract to supply desktop and traditional claims handl...
We are meeting consumer needs.
Your article 'Miller chief blames insurers for job cuts and closures' (PM 8 June, p9) does not accur...
Lloyd's procedures.
Lloyd's Policy Signing Office has introduced procedures to mark the closing of registered risks. Man...
Online jobs cut off.
US-based online insurer InsWeb is to cut its staff of 300 by about 40% over the next six months. Las...
Snowball effect.
Patrick Snowball, managing director of new composite CGNU's UK general insurance operation, Norwich Union, talks to Jonathan Swift about his plans.
A much-needed shot in the arm for the industry.
For the optimists in the insurance industry there was some good news this week. A new report claims ...
If's no buts on Eva.
Nordic property and casualty insurer, If, has appointed Eva Cederbalk to develop and co-ordinate its...
RSA's AA- rating.
Royal and Sun Alliance group's below average operating performance has led ratings agency Standard &...
Exclusive deal.
Berkeley Morgan has won a major contract to exclusively market household insurance to the one millio...
Stop the cheats.
Malingering claimants are an expensive problem for insurers. So how can you catch them out? What should you look for in medical reports? Dave Cottam gives his views.
Potential claims.
Shifts in political attitudes and changes to the funding of the legal system were driving some of th...