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Insurers urged over drug row
Insurers are being urged to join a row over high-cost cancer treatments, after experts accused healt...
Ecclesiastical partnership to target fraud
Ecclesiastical has promised to call fraudsters to account through its first anti-fraud legal service...
Young achiever revealed
Katie Jackson of Bollington, the North-west-based insurance broker, has won the regional Chartered I...
Appointment at Heath Lambert
Heath Lambert has recruited Geoff Ward and Sue Held to its real estate team. Mr Ward joins as a prop...
Appointment at NIG
NIG has appointed John Inwood as head of complex small to medium-sized enterprise underwriting and D...
Appointment at CMGL
CMGL has made Michael Tait an executive chairman. Previously Europe-Africa vice-president and genera...
Treasury to hold court
The government's Treasury Committee was due to hold an evidence session on its inquiry into the scop...
Queen's Speech omits Legal Services Bill
The omission of the Legal Services Bill from the main text of the Queen's Speech last week will not ...
Link and Zenith strike a two-year deal with Universal
Link Insurance and Zenith Insurance have appointed Userve to provide salvage management and disposal...
Broker hires Love
Midlands-based broker Perkins Slade has appointed Stuart Love, former managing director at Welsh bro...
Appointment at Aspen Insurance
Aspen Insurance has appointed three directors to its board: Stuart Sinclair, president and chief ope...
Spain rejoins federation
Spain has rejoined the Federation of European Loss Adjusting Experts after several years of absence....
Appointment at Smart and Cook
Smart and Cook has made David Burnett non-executive chairman. Mr Burnett has been a partner at TT In...
Appointment at Close Premium Finance
Gethin Wood has joined Close Premium Finance's telesales team as an account manager. Mr Wood will be...
First paperless settlement
Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter and Lloyd's insurer Amlin last week claimed they had completed the ...
Zurich claims a staff training first
Zurich Insurance claims it is the first insurer in the UK to partner with the Chartered Insurance In...
Adjuster adds to team
In response to recent growth, Cunningham Lindsey has appointed Kirsten Watson to its liability servi...
Judge sentences Axa fraudster to three years
A claims handler who defrauded insurance giant Axa of EUR1.1m (£742 322) over five years has been se...
Firms gather for Carole Nash takeover bid
Speculation is mounting on which company will buy motorcycle specialist broker Carole Nash, with the...
Appointment at Hugh James
Hugh James has appointed Philip Dicken as head of insurance, responsible for all insurer and interme...
Equestrian firms to unite
Two equestrian brokers, KBIS and THB British Equestrian, have entered into negotiations with a view ...
RMS stands by +40% hurricane damage forecast despite benign 2006
Risk Management Solutions has reaffirmed its medium-term five-year view of landfalling hurricane risk for the period of 2007-2011. The company is projecting higher modeled annualized insurance losses by 40% on average across the Gulf Coast, Florida, and…
Eight arrested in second IFB operation
The Insurance Fraud Bureau has announced the success of a second major investigation into an organised criminal network believed to be staging motor vehicle accidents and conspiring to defraud insurance companies.
Rates still falling in food and beverage liability
A softening market has seen the price of insurance limits in the food and beverage sector drop by almost 30% in the past two years, according to Marsh.