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Glazier cuts costs.
Emergency response glaziers Highway Glass & Locks has developed a new reconstruction service to redu...
Appointment at The Source.
Jane McGovern has been appointed divisional director of The Source Claim Support, the IT-related cla...
Zurich goes digital.
Zurich's commercial business unit has teamed up with digital business facilitator Entranet to help i...
Aspect expansion.
Aspect Software International, which provides eCRM applications for the insurance and banking sector...
Appointment at Adepta.
Adepta, the provider of outsourced administrative services to the life and pensions industry, has ta...
AA set to launch phone-based IFA operation.
The AA is set to launch a phone-based independent financial adviser operation next month to compleme...
Appointment at XL Brockbank.
Lloyd's managing agency XL Brockbank, a subsidiary of XL Capital, has appointed Paul Drake as underw...
Repairs slashed.
An internet-based system for trading repairer capacity could revolutionise the way motor insurance c...
Appointment at Combined Insurance.
Combined Insurance, an underwriting subsidiary of Aon Corporation, has promoted Clive Robinson to th...
Orphan investigated.
Royal London is to investigate the possibility of unlocking the orphan estate of one of its subsidia...
Names: Lloyd's to send in bailiffs.
Lloyd's looks set to call in the bailiffs within weeks, following a mass snub of its latest settleme...
Central reservations.
Call centres have answered the public's call for 24-hour service from insurers. However, the cracks are beginning to show and critics believe the integration of systems has fallen short in the rush to provide a solution, says David Fanning.
Sharing out risk.
Axa Assistance has entered into a risk share agreement with Hamilton Insurance, a member of the HFC ...
Lloyd's plan for captives in ruins.
Lloyd's plan to encourage a plethora of captive insurers was left in ruins this week, after it emerg...
GISC rejects complusion.
The General Insurance Standards Council has published its competence and training guidance and, as e...
Risk managers abandon insurers.
Risk managers are turning away from the traditional insurance market, according to a new survey by t...
Motor confusion.
I suspect very few motorists understand what business use, if any their policy provides. Policies co...
Database on target.
The drivers' database being deve-loped by the Motor Insurers' Information Centre is set to go live i...
All bets off over security.
Insurers are not prepared to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to IT security, ac...
Round of applause for plausible Coverclick.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Zurich Re to become independent company
Zurich Financial Services is to spin off and rename its Zurich Re operation as part of a restructurin...
Policy Master to be dropped
Broking systems supplier Policy Master plans to change its name to the Sirius Group and is to seek a ...
Fusion takes another three Independent staff
Fusion, which is owned by Lloyd's vehicle SVB, has recruited another three senior development manage...
Chubb chief calls for peace
Dean O'Hare, chairman and chief executive of Chubb - policy adviser to President Bush - has called fo...