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Appointment at Autoglass.
Autoglass has appointed two new members of staff to its strategic accounts business team. Jeremy Roc...
Database scheme for all UK claims.
A feasibility study into setting up a central, industry-wide, personal and commercial lines claims d...
Appointment at Darwin Rhodes.
Darwin Rhodes, international recruitment consultants to the actuarial, financial services and insura...
Smart and Cook splits management.
Acquisitive broker Smart & Cook has decided to split the management of its operations as part of a m...
Fixed fees for PI claims.
Blind-bidding online claims settlement site eSettle has entered talks with a major UK insurer to agre...
Axa slashes legal panel to make life easier.
Axa Insurance has slashed its general insurance legal panel of solicitors from over 30 to just 14 in...
RSA Asia Pacific benefits from Oz rise
Royal & Sun Alliance's Asia Pacific operations, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Japan, In...
Rehabilitation First - Campaign conference - 18 October 2001 - The
Rehabilitation may be firmly on the agenda, but is it being delivered in reality? This conference wi...
Has ABI set a precedent?
In a new regular column, Post Magazine's panel of industry experts are asked to give their view on an...
Lloyd's sells 50% to US Xchanging.
Lloyd's is to sell a 50% stake in its claims processing office to US-backed outsourcing specialist X...
Advance Thai target.
Thai-based Advance MLC Assurance expects its new Millennium Woman product to help it achieve its sal...
MVRA expulsions.
The Motor Vehicle Repairer's Association has expelled two members for "blatantly contradicting" the ...
CD bought back.
Colin Poole and Tony Sullman have succeeded in buying back the no win, no fee company Claims Direct,...
Appointment at Specialist Liability Services.
Liability adjusters SLS has taken on two new adjusters Ian Collie has joined at St Albans, having fo...
Appointment at Item Plus.
Item Plus Consulting, the Warrington-based financial services consultancy, has recruited Simon Coles...
Building clause comes under fire.
Casson v Ostley PJ (Court of Appeal - 29 June 2001).
Penny Black's insurance week.
Despite posting good results recently, it appears Royal & Sun Alliance chief executive Bob Mendelsoh...
Quality, claims and customers.
Two one-day conferences presented back-to-back will, together, give the claims professional a comple...
insurE-com opening.
Insurance software provider insurE-com has opened a new specialist call centre to support its broker...
Independent cornered over NI payments.
The provisional liquidator of Independent Insurance this week moved to pacify former employees conce...
Putting the roof on claims queries.
I read with interest John Elderkin's letter (see below: 'Storm damage hits the roof') concerning insu...
St Paul crash costs.
St Paul said this week it had no reason to believe the total cost to the insurance industry followin...
Gan contract ruling rests on Tai Ping error.
GAN Insurance Co v Tai Ping Insurance Co (Court of Appeal - 3 July 2001).
Zurich sell-off fails to stop negative rating
Zurich has been downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's following lower than expected earnin...