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Core savings with claims processing product.
London-based e-insurance solution provider Core Technologies believes it can save insurers millions ...
Appointment at Weather Direct.
Steve Warner has become the new managing director of outdoor events insurer Weather Direct. Mr Warne...
RSA renames its training college.
Royal & Sun Alliance has renamed its Underwriting College, launched last year, as the Insurance Coll...
Appointment at Raft International.
Raft International has made Mike Finlay sales and marketing director. Formerly an executive director...
UK on health and safety time bomb.
UK employers could be sitting on a health and safety 'time bomb,' a leading liability insurer warned...
Lloyd's site recruits.
Lloyd's has appointed a chief executive for its new Lloyd's.com internet trading site, which launche...
CILA review: education focus.
Gerald Williams, incoming president of CILA and Miller Fisher director, outlined the findings of the...
Appointment at Elborne Mitchell.
Bill Jarvis, a solicitor specialising in insurance and reinsurance, has moved to niche City law prac...
Appointment at HealthSure.
Manchester-based HealthSure has recruited Raman Sankaran as marketing communications manager. He wil...
Ruling threatens Euro brands.
Insurers who specialise in brand protection cover are set to benefit from the European Court of Just...
Fortis may not pay out for Selby rail disaster.
Insurer Fortis, which insured the driver of the Land Rover that caused the Selby rail disaster, may ...
Agents score low.
Allied Dunbar has reported that 1.4% of its 4700 agents failed the company's wholesale retesting pro...
Manpower survey predicts higher rate of insurance recruitment.
Insurance companies are planning to recruit more staff and at a higher rate than last year, accordin...
ABI: no rush on genetics.
Your Comment (Jumping the gun on genetic tests, Post Magazine, 5 April, p17), following the recent r...
Regulator must decide quickly where to draw membership line.
How low can it go? That is one of the main questions facing the General Insurance Standards Council ...
Exchange deal.
Exchange FS, the parent company of intermediary portal The Exchange, has signed a deal with the Tene...
McLarens site a model of marketing accessibility.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Pension ruling.
Pension fund surpluses can be used by directors to pay for redundancies, the House of Lords ruled la...
Better equipped?
A new chartered insurance broker qualification may be on the cards, but the industry is divided on whether it will change anything as far as improving professionalism or public opinion is concerned, says David Fanning.
Prudential launches legal action against AIG.
UK insurer Prudential has launched legal action against US giant AIG over its intended merger with A...
AIUA cuts rates.
Agricultural Insurance Underwriting Agencies has cut its premium finance rates to 2.9% Annual Premiu...
What the Papers Say.
THE SUN The National Sea Life centre in Birmingham is paying £2300 a year protection against crab...
Employers Re axes jobs
Up to a quarter of the staff at GE Frankona Re's Munich headquarters are to lose their jobs in a majo...
Ockham denial as Lovis goes
Quoted Lloyd's insurer Ockham has rebuffed suggestions it is looking to sell the business in the same...