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Regulation must keep the consumer in mind.
The Government has called for effective self-regulation in the general insurance sector. The aim ...
Appointment at Chubb Insurance.
Following its purchase of the business operations of Wellington Personal Insurance, Chubb Insurance ...
Weekend trouble.
Figures just released by Munters Control Services show that home owners are most at risk from floods...
RoyScot in New Deal.
RoyScot Trust has signed up to the government's New Deal initiative. As part of the scheme Roy Scot ...
National Lottery winners.
A delighted syndicate of workers from United Friendly Assurance in Bournemouth were assured of good ...
Replacing the waiting.
As insurers strive to keep customers, they have started to see the benefits of claims replacement. Instead of being offered a cheque, customers are now getting hassle-free product replacement. Jonathan Swift investigates.
UK insurers have turnover of £180bn to their credit.
British trade credit insurers supported over £180bn worth of trade in 1997. Figures compiled by t...
Appointment at Merricks Solicitors.
Nikola Evans has joined Merricks' Chelmsford Construction team as a senior solicitor. Previously she...
Bates to retire.
Sun Life of Canada UK general manager and senior vice-president, Maurice Bates, has announced his in...
Appointment at Anchor (UK).
Marc Taylor has been appointed as an account development executive with insurance brokers Anchor (UK...
Davies puts seal on double deals.
Davies Managed Systems has created two strategic partnership agreements as part of sweeping changes ...
£60m set aside for Holocaust policies.
Italy's biggest insurer, Assicurazioni Generali Spa, has agreed to pay out millions of pounds to pol...
Early date is set for new ombudsman scheme.
The Financial Services Authority has unveiled plans for an early introduction of the single Ombudsma...
Forte's £120k RAC deal.
Forte Software has announced Australian insurer RAC Insurance has selected its Application Environme...
Marsh Mac deal creates world's biggest broker.
J&H Marsh & McLennan has announced that it has acquired Sedgwick for £1.25bn following five months o...
Alarm over risk pooling plan.
Insurers have been stunned by new moves by the government to form a risk pooling scheme for NHS Trus...
Salvage dealers back trade body.
The leading independent salvage dealers have put aside their differences to endorse a new trade body...
Industry must stand up to government bullying.
If the insurance industry believed that its problems with the government were confined simply to the...
CII furious at Newro rumour.
The CII has reacted angrily to suggestions that it has thrown its weight behind the NewRo proposal f...
Pensions drop by half.
DCE Research has conducted an insurance and pension software survey in the European market which sho...
Insurers deserve better service from the ABI - Millennium 2000.
When the recent Which? report brought headlines that said 'Insurance cash is often money down the dr...
Exclusive - Don't let the buck for credit blacklists stop with
The Association of British Insurers has been urged to lobby the Lord Chancellor's office to demand a...
AON takes personal Focus.
Michael Eve, chief executive of Aon Risk Service, talks to Tim Collison about the corporate strategy and spending spree.
Flooding continues in China.
As flooding continues to saturate huge swathes of China, the country's life insurers are complaining...