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A fine comment.
With regard to the story "AIG could face massive fine for Paddington crash" (PM, 6 December, p1), wh...
In deep water?
This year has seen a high tide for insurers. They are struggling to hold on, with the fallout from flooding and storm damage, company collapses, the contracting market and soaring costs - not to mention September's terrorist attacks, threatening survival…
Muress makes move to Crawford.
Ian Muress, former chief executive of loss adjuster McLarens Toplis, is to take over as managing dir...
Budget structure.
Budget Financial Services has announced its new structure, following the acquisition of the Direct D...
Clifford Chance faces hearing for discrimination.
Transatlantic law firm Clifford Chance will next month face the first hearing in a claim for racial ...
View from the top - Andrew Torrance
Andrew Torrance, general manager, Allianz Cornhill UK How well does government understand the comme...
Joint action needed.
I read of the government's decision to appoint the Financial Services Authority as the single regula...
Appointment at London Borough of Merton.
Steve Mappley has been promoted to the post of principal risk management & insurance officer for the...
Appointment at Cornhill Schemes.
Cornhill Schemes has appointed Graham Norris as divisional manager, operations. He joined Cornhill i...
Hiscox view raises eyebrows and hackles.
The usual approach when faced with the pub bore is to nod and make one's excuses as quickly as possi...
Appointment at GAB Robins.
Mark Griffiths joins GAB Robins as part of the company's subsidence team. He was previously chief eng...
What the Papers Say.
Evening Standard Arsenal star Thierry Henry's £1.5m home has been ransacked by a burglar who esca...
Asbestos ruling will not go away.
Insurers should treat last week's landmark Court of Appeal ruling regarding mesothelioma claimants (...
Top of the PI charts.
Conveyancing work has attracted the highest number of solicitors' professional indemnity notificatio...
Appointment at Smart & Cook.
Smart & Cook, the insurance and financial services group, has made Jon Duke personnel manager, based...
Appointment at Rainbow International.
Rainbow International, disaster restoration specialists, has recruited Adrian Morton to head up its ...
Scotland calls for fast-track.
The Law Society of Scotland has called for a fast-track procedure for complaints against solicitors ...
Swiss Re set back in WTC dispute.
Swiss Re has suffered a setback in its dispute with World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein, as a...
Negligence rethink.
The Shadow Health Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has called for a fundamental rethink of the whole clinical...
Guardian forecast.
Disaster recovery specialist Guardian IT has posted poor financial forecasts for the second time thi...
Law Society vote.
A special general meeting of the Law Society has supported changes to members' voting rights that ma...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny can't help feeling that the ongoing saga of the Groupama sale is trundling on somewhat and the...
Brokers concern about FSA.
Brokers have voiced discontent about the transition of regulatory power from the self-regulating Gen...
The facts of life.
The big news this year for the life sector has been the continuing Equitable saga and latterly the introduction of new regulatory powers granted to the Financial Services Authority to supervise the UK's life insurers. Keith Sankey asks where does the…