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A break with the old ways
Shifts in customer and distribution patterns mean a fresh approach is essential if insurers are to prosper. Kevin Harwood believes companies need to break with tradition, employ new business models and IT infrastructures and take a more holistic view of…
Aurora deal faces delay
Outsourcing giant Capita failed to seal the deal for Independent Insurance run-off company Aurora C...
Robert Childs becomes new chairman of Lloyd's Market Association
Robert Childs, executive director and principal of Hiscox, has become the new chairman of the Lloyd...
Appointment at ISS Ark & General
Disaster recovery firm ISS Ark & General has recruited Barry Spencer as project supervisor in its P...
PM Power List: The insurance industry's finest
After long, hard deliberation - and not a little wine - Post Magazine has compiled a list of those players who are probably the most influential within the UK general insurance industry today.
Can we fix it?
Working in a high-risk profession, Bob the Builder's employers' liability insurance premiums will have risen steeply this year. However, many insurers claim that the implementation of effective risk management can keep the cost of cover down. David…
Layton Blackham aims for network
Layton Blackham hopes to have a 12-strong broker network by the end of 2003. The broker will la...
Appointment at Tradex Insurance Company
Tradex Insurance Company, the leading independent motor trade off-screen and taxi insurer has taken...
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...