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Appointment at Crutes.
Louise Dack, who had worked as a secretary for Crutes for 10 years and then switched to work on the ...
DLA may drop PI.
Law firm DLA is considering ditching its current professional indemnity arrangements in the commerci...
Exaxe to attack UK market.
Irish IT consulting and software development company Exaxe is gearing up for an assault on the UK ma...
Legal focus on real world of risk.
The landscape of the risk environment is changing as newer speculative risks replace the older more traditional ones. Maurice Pullen looks at the legal impact of this.
Axa makes outsourcing deal.
Axa has said no job losses will result from its decision to outsource the day-to-day management of i...
Good to talk.
With the Airmic conference only days away, Anthony Gould takes a look at the main topics up for discussion and explains why communication is the key to successful risk management.
Adjuster Resolve sold to consultancy.
Loss adjuster Resolve International has been acquired by Charles Taylor Consulting, a publicly-traded...
Global village.
Online risk management has not been as effective as had been expected, though a new generation of applications intends to change this by offering narrower searches and a wider global reach, says Jonathan Swift.
Ignorance not bliss for producers.
Ignorance of a defect does not protect a producer if the defect is discovered, the Court of Appeal r...
What the Papers Say.
Financial Times The increasing numbers of mountain bikers suffering serious injury has raised fea...
Urge for quality not quantity.
A key issue for brokers is quality of people, said Nigel Roberts, managing director of Aon Specialit...
Appointment at ItemPlus Consulting.
ItemPlus Consulting has recruited Mike O'Hehir to its team. He joins from CGNU and also gained indus...
Supporting age-old scourge of uninsured drivers.
Twenty five years ago, an attempt to was made to stop the scourge of uninsured drivers as reported i...
Claims to face the biggest changes of all.
Some of the biggest changes in market practice are in the area of claims, the conference heard. M...
Wragge rises.
Law firm Wragge & Co has increased its turnover for the year ended 30 April 2001 by 40% to £76.3m. T...
Off-road campaign.
Universal Salvage has collected over 1000 signatures for its petitition as part of a campaign launch...
UK boosts Allianz income
German insurer Allianz, reporting its first quarter profits for the first time, said premium income ...
Benefits backlash.
Insurers have been saved millions of pounds in personal injury payouts, following an historic decisi...
Customer focus sacrificed at IT altar.
Insurers were branded as lacking in customer focus and not being innovative enough, while failing to...
Groupama rejects doubters.
French insurer Groupama this week stressed it is fully committed to the UK market, after comments by...
Film finance suffers a repayment blow.
Film finance insurers received a blow last week when the Court of Appeal ruled that HIH was not enti...
Retail gear shift.
Non-traditional players could soon move towards underwriting their own motor insurance policies, mar...
Hamilton snaps up British Bloodstock brokerage.
Niche broker Hamilton & Partners has bought the insurance broking arm of the British Bloodstock Agen...
Banking on French life.
French banks have found that a friendly alliance with insurers can make all the difference when it comes to counting up their profits at the end of the financial year. Jeremy Golden reports on France's bancassurance experience.