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Penny Black's insurance week
Never one to be accused of being a City-centric girl, Penny was this week thankful to a Surrey-base...
Minister: Gibraltar gives less protection
Policyholders of Gibraltan-domiciled insurers can expect lower levels of protection than their UK cou...
Professional Risk Underwriters committed to Sirius.
UK-based insurance technology specialist Sirius Financial Systems this week said US insurer Professi...
RSA to head off further asbestos cases
Royal & Sun Alliance is looking to head off further litigation over asbestos claims, after it was r...
J-Rules in line for major deal.
Franco-US software components giant ILog this week said it expected a top-20 UK insurer to install i...
ISS: no merger for "different" Rainbow and Ark & General
International disaster recovery and cleaning specialist ISS has declared that it will not merge its...
Flood barrier hit by kitemark exclusion
Manufacturers of certain types of flood protection products will be excluded from taking part in th...
MMA Insurance appoints marketing director
Broker-only insurer MMA Insurance has appointed Derek Plummer as its marketing director, assuming r...
The blame game
As the propensity for people in the UK to seek redress for personal injury has grown, so too has the public's take-up of legal expenses insurance. Simon Threadgold examines the state of both before- and after-the-event offerings across the market.
Subsidence: dealing with a slippery issue
Subsidence: New ways of tackling an expensive problem - 16 April - The Insurance Hall, London.
CIFAS launches guidance for members
The UK's fraud prevention service CIFAS has launched its first model fraud policy statements and gu...
Appointment at Manson Warner Healthcare
Manchester-based healthcare consultant, Manson Warner Healthcare, has appointed Christopher Cannon ...
Ex-NMT boss to buy broker
Paul Mathews, the ex-business development director of IT service provider New Millennium Technologi...
Zurich widens indemnity net
Zurich Professional is to offer its professional indemnity insurance to a wider group of profession...
Putting risk on the map' - Correction.
In the article 'Putting risk on the map' (PM, 30 January, p34), Ordnance Survey was incorrectly cred...
Acturis gets £5m cash injection from backers
Acturis is to step up its commercial offering for brokers, after securing a further £5m backing fro...
Appointment at St Paul
St Paul International Insurance has made three senior appointments. Max Harwood joins as reinsuranc...
What the papers said this week
Daily Mail In a measure reflecting the seriousness of the share slump, John Tiner, managing dir...
Growing with the flow
Some in the insurance industry are worried that the recent spate of flooding could see a wave of mould-related claims swamp claims departments. However, others argue that if effective techniques are used to dry out properties, fungal growth should not be…
ACII: credit where it is due
With reference to the alleged ease with which one can be come ACII-qualified today, I would like to...
Motor claims seeks to put drivers at the steering wheel
New roads for motor claims: Putting customers in the driving seat - 25 February - London.
View from the Top - Andrew Briscoe, managing director, AA Insurance
The Financial Services Authority cheered us all up at the end of 2002, when it published CP160. ...
Appointment at DWL
Software provider DWL has appointed Carl Chanson Williams to its advisory board. The former princip...
Hundreds axed as insurance supplier goes into liquidation
Insurance industry replacement supplier Ford Group is up for sale, after plans to expand the busine...