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Appointment at NFU Mutual
Kim Arif has taken up the position of deputy general manager finance with Stratford-upon-Avon-based...
Sherwood confirms closure of offices
Insurance software and solutions provider Sherwood has confirmed the closure of four of its offices...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths
This company supplies marketing services to the insurance industry and its web site is very distinc...
Cutting claims down to size
Although faring better than the employers' liability sector, personal lines insurers are facing their own problems, with floods, fraud and falling investment returns all denting profits. Rachel Gordon looks at the role of claims teams in cutting back on…
Name-dropping
Independent broker the Miller Insurance Group launched a 1000-strong balloon race outside Lloyd's t...
Plea from Lloyd's worldwide markets director
The insurance cycle is the source of the industry's ills and is the reason investors are willing to...
View from the Top - Duncan Boyle, chief executive, Royal & Sun Alliance UK
It is now over nine months since the Treasury announced that regulation of general insurance will b...
Trenwick no Lloyd's fears
Trenwick Managing Agents this week said there was no danger of it not participating in the Lloyd's ...
AWA moves into Europe
Allied World Assurance has set its sights on becoming a new European insurance force, with the open...
PYV set for acquisition
Lloyd's broker PYV is set to complete a "sizable acquisition" next week, following its parent, PYV ...
ABI set to fight travel opt-out
The Association of British Insurers is determined to fight its corner, following the government's consultation paper on regulation, as Katharine Braddick explains.
Travel agents' case is clear
The government may allow travel agents to fall outside the scope of general insurance sales regulation, to the dismay of the Consumers' Association and insurers. Riccardo Nardi puts the travel agents' case.
Autoglass annual car crime survey results
Police crackdowns on city-centre street robbery are putting drivers at risk and leaving UK insurers...
Penny Black's insurance week
Lloyd's has refuted speculation circulating the Xchanging conference this week that it is having pr...
Appointment at Carmichaels
Chris Leith joins Carmichaels' head office at Maidstone as an external loss adjuster. He began his ...
Appointment at Beachcroft Wansbroughs
National law firm Beachcroft Wansbroughs has taken on reinsurance specialist Julian Miller as a par...
Abbey National adds two more motor insurers to site
Abbey National has added two more motor insurers to its Quote and Buy site, launched in August this...
Appointment at Wheelies Direct
Neil Robertson has joined cycle replacement specialist Wheelies Direct as claim department manager ...
Appointment at Elite Incident
Management Elite Incident Management, has made Trevor Cutts managing director. Mr Cutts joined Elit...
Travellers' checks
Terrorist atrocities over the last 12 months, including the US attacks on 11 September and the Bali bombing, have forced insurers and employers to consider the implications of staff being sent abroad on business. Toni Hutchinson reports.
Taking director action
Increasing corporate responsibility has placed a heavy burden on company directors. Veronica Cowan investigates how they are responding to the risks facing them and the options insurers are providing.
Enterprise gets rocky ride
The House of Lords looks set to press ahead with amendments to the government's troubled and wide-r...
Appointment at CNA
Cheryl Sheridan and Ian Belcher have joined CNA Global Resource Managers' Audit and Consultancy ope...
Workers are failing to take legal action
Misguided loyalty to employers is preventing thousands of workers taking legal action following acc...