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Working IT out.
In an atmosphere where insurance companies are focused on cost-cutting measures to protect their bottom line, outsourcing IT is a popular strategy for achieving this. But, asks Richard Adams, is this always the best solution?
Call for action on no win, no fee bus fears.
The coach and bus industry is very concerned about the no win, no fee industry and wants the governme...
Sensible spreading of risks is best advice to architects with panel
The comment piece, Exploding panel myths (Post Magazine, 3 April), regarding the decision in Sahib F...
Appointment at Ace.
Ace has appointed Mark Megaw as general counsel to the worldwide reinsurance operations of the Ace G...
Brit hits out at US 'shambles'.
Neil Eckert, chief executive of Brit Insurance Holdings, warned the industry will find it difficult ...
Sabre expects big underwriting profits.
Non-standard motor insurer Sabre expects to report another sizeable underwriting profit for 2003, de...
M&SFS seeks GI counter sales as motor launched.
Marks & Spencer Financial Services this week said its long-term aim was to sell general insurance ov...
CILA not taken decision over future of conference.
CILA said it had still not taken any decision over the future of its own conference/annual general m...
Dual insurers: responsibility not always split in two.
Drake Insurance v Provident Insurance (Queen's Bench Division - 3 February 2003).
Appointment at Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has promoted Claire Oakes to UK sales manager to work in both its corporate an...
Appointment at R3: Group.
Business-to-business-to-consumer specialist R3: Group has made two new appointments to its Ipswich-b...
Surveyor fault a case of hindsight.
McKinnon and McKinnon v E Surv (Chancery Division - 14 January 2003).
Wellington marches back into profit.
The historically beleaguered areas of marine and offshore energy risks are likely to be key drivers ...
A wider vision.
Allianz Cornhill's broker arm is a major player in a sector that has taken some hard knocks lately. Marcus Alcock talked to Chris Hanks, commercial underwriting and marketing executive for the division, about the company's wide-ranging plans going…
Appointment at Aspen.
Aspen, the independent firm of actuaries and pensions consultants, is aiming to improve the independ...
Lloyd's rivals touted as new PRI bidder.
Lloyd's insurer Brit's hostile bid for insurer PRI Group took another turn this week, with the emerg...
Appointment at ISO.
US-based property and liability risk firm Insurance Services Office has promoted Kevin B Thompson to...
Medicals Direct targets Europe in expansion plans.
Eighteen months of aggressive growth, including expansion into European underwriting markets, is on ...
Two-sided' partnership proposed.
Joe Robinson, claims director at Zurich Financial Services, said he believed there has been substant...
Events.
12-13 May International Underwriting Association/Lloyd's Market Association 16th international se...
Public debate needed on role of unions.
I am pleased that Paul Picknett from Groupama responded (Future of union role questioned, PM, 10 Apr...
Zurich appoints Mark Bull as partnership manager.
Zurich has appointed Mark Bull as partnership manager, networks and suppliers, for its motor enginee...
Point of View - Mark Hodges, finance director, Norwich Union.
The waiting is over, with the publication of CP174, we now know the core elements of what it will ta...
Sirius plans to corner 50% of broking market.
Specialist insurance software provider Sirius has set itself the ambitious target of cornering 50% o...