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Stakeholder figures "encouraging" claims ABI
Almost 70 000 new stakeholder pensions were bought in July, according to figures released today by th...
Ockham drives ahead with Highway
Ockham Holdings has recorded a rise in pretax profits in the first half of this year to £5.8m compare...
Helphire set to return to profit
Credit hire company Helphire Group, which is still in dispute with a number of insurers — and which e...
Swiss Re premiums rise
Swiss Re has reported a 19% increase in net premiums in the first half of the year, compared with a y...
Danish Re ditches Newmarket merger
Danish Re has given up on its plans to merge its Lloyd's operations with Newmarket Underwriting. Th...
Insurers are set for generous Concorde payout.
Parties involved in last year's Air France Concorde crash can expect to receive a generous settlement...
Riot get-out clause.
Two police forces may have to foot the multi-million-pound insurance bill, following riots in Bradfo...
Five act to stop rot.
Five of the UK's biggest general insurers are looking at setting up a new market intelligence-gather...
Two in premium finance attack.
Two new premium finance providers aim to wrestle market share from the duopoly that dominates the UK...
Safeco denies problems as Bailey quits.
US insurer Safeco has affirmed its commitment to its London market operations, despite the resignati...
Zurich dragged down by non-life
Zurich Financial Group has recorded a 33% dive in net profits for the first half of the year, with it...
Churchill nets travel.
Churchill Insurance has expanded its online offering to include travel insurance. Customers can now ...
Britannic holds nerve on general.
Britannic has said it remains committed to the general insurance market, despite poor results that s...
Interlink rolled out.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Lindsey will this week finish rolling out its new on-site claims management...
The full potential.
Following an assessment of 20 leading UK websites by customer service solutions company HelpMagic, i...
NU sends 4000 underwriters to school
Norwich Union today launched an academy to hone the skills of more than 4,000 of its underwriters. ...
Miller Fisher delay.
Outsourcing group Miller Fisher has put back the date for its preliminary results until next week. I...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny thinks the lovely sounding Aurora, the company formed from the ashes of Independent, needs to h...
GISC delay again.
The delayed ruling from the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal, on the Institute of Insurance Br...
Wren: Alder rights.
Lloyd's insurer Wren, part of Brit Insurance Holdings, is to acquire the right to manage syndicate 4...
Immoral supplier contracts.
I feel I must take issue with your correspondents on the subject of former policyholders being made r...
Cotesworth failure.
The Lloyd's underwriting agent Cotesworth has put its managed marine syndicate 535 and its non-marin...
Survey by Taxi Newspaper and Pointsec Mobile Technologies.
Millions of pounds worth of mobile phones and laptop computers are left in black cabs every year, ac...
Anti-euro slip up.
International broking giant Aon this week moved to distance itself from the anti-euro campaign, afte...