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BT enters online insurance market with Aon.
British Telecom has entered the online insurance market with broker Aon. Affinity insurance services...
Industry to seek support over too taxing issues.
The insurance industry will this week enter its pre-budget pleading to the Chancellor of the Exchequ...
CMG makes tracks.
IT company CMG has published its fourth eCom index, which tracks the number of companies recording m...
Appointment at QBE.
Paul Moss has been recruited by QBE International Insurance to head up the claims function and drive...
Scottish entrants.
Scottish Provident has welcomed the decision by Scottish Equitable to enter into the personal protec...
First-class Deliver-e.
Software and consultancy supplier, Eurobase, has launched its automated information dispatch product...
Infidelity damages danger.
Last week's High Court ruling that the widow of a road accident victim should receive reduced damage...
Appointment at Charringtons.
Two new appointments have been made at Charringtons. Richard Oliver becomes director of construction...
Early warning system.
Loss adjusters are increasingly being cast as the eyes and ears of risk managers as insurers look to minimise their risk exposure. Jonathan Swift looks at how adjusters perceive their role in the changing climate and whether the risk manager is still…
Mergers down to pure boardroom greed.
According to the head of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union, mergers and consolidation are...
Fuelling the crisis.
The recent petrol crisis has brought the importance of business interruption cover sharply into focu...
Elections spark health row.
Health insurance is at the centre of the US election contest between Democratic candidate vice presi...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has made four new appointments to its sales team. Neil Peters will become the ...
Deloitte: Swiss role.
Deloitte Consulting has won the contract to develop Swiss Life's next generation of pension systems ...
Axe falls on over 100 staff as Lincoln quits UK.
Life insurer Lincoln has axed over 100 jobs, following the announcement last month it would stop tak...
GISC rules in credit risk row.
A large number of brokers are expected to benefit from the General Insurance Standards Council's dec...
Ward Evans in London move
Ambitious broker Ward Evans is to relocate its London office following expansion of the business. T...
Mediation takes off.
Contracted Mediation, the service launched by Resolex (Post Magazine, 5 October, p3) to avoid expens...
DCS misnomer.
Devonshire Claims Services is the loss adjusting subsidiary of Hammond Suddards Edge and not law fir...
Upwardly immobile.
A report by telebroker Peoples Choice has found that older cars are more likely to get stolen. It pu...
Appointment at St Paul.
Robin Hobson has joined St Paul International Insurance as regional underwriter in north-west Englan...
Murray to retire.
John Murray, managing director of Zurich Municipal is to retire at the end of the year and will be r...
Aon goes online with credit cover.
Aon is to launch an online underwriting agency providing brokers with trade credit insurance product...
IOB under spotlight.
The work of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau, the first private sector Ombudsman scheme in the UK, is ...