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E-mortgage coup for providers.
Two mortgage specialists aim to help mortgage introducers with new online services. First Active ...
Boys in the black stuff.
The Irish financial services market is currently booming as the Celtic Tiger sinks its claws into the international market. Jonathan Swift reports on how some of the new entrants in Dublin aim to win their stripes.
Move for Wessex.
Bournemouth-based broker Wessex has become part of City broker Stuart Alexander. It is Stuart Alexan...
Bankhall bought by Lynx.
Independent financial adviser network Bankhall has sold out to international IT solution provider Ly...
Judicial Review, High Court.
23 March 2000 An employee was killed by the jaws of a crane grab on his first day at work. He had...
Appeal over discount rate - Warren v Northern General Hospital Trust.
Court of Appeal 4 April 2000 The claimant suffered cerebral palsy resulting from post natal as...
With transparency we must see accountability.
The tortuous path of the Financial Services and Markets Bill - which will eventually give the financ...
Axa hits the road.
Axa is going on the road again at the end of the month to canvas broker opinion on whether it is del...
£66m levy from ICS.
The Investors Compensation Scheme has announced a £66.3m April 2000 levy on self-regulating organisa...
Feeling the pressure.
The troubled professional indemnity market is seeing some rate increases across the board, but with the Woolf reforms and the demise of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund, premiums for solicitors must rise substantially, says Simon Threadgold.
Appointment at Kyle Insurance.
Pat Porter has been appointed accounts supervisor for Northern Ireland broker Kyle Insurance. She wi...
Whitley v Phillip Morris & R J Reynolds, Los Angeles.
27 March 2000 An ex-smoker was awarded £12m by a Californian jury despite the presence of health ...
Date for broker title.
A chartered insurance broker title for individuals should be available by the end of the year for Fe...
Accidents or damage to vehicles cost nearly £1m a week.
Compensation to drivers, cyclists and pedestrians for accidents or damage to vehicles caused by poor...
dot.com pensions.
A new London-based company Quote-master.com has launched an Internet service which enables companies...
Caring via the Net.
Investment managers will soon be able to do their bit for the environment using new Internet softwar...
Heritage goes round the houses.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
If people take less and less responsibility for their actions we can only expect premiums to go up a...
Appointment at Kiln.
Edward Creasy has been made director of underwriting at Kiln. He joined RJ Kiln & Co as managing dir...
Appointment at DAS Legal Expenses.
DAS Legal Expenses has made two new appointments. Lyndon Willshire has been made corporate business ...
Commentary - Claims try the patience of NHS.
Optimism in the NHS following the Budget has been spoilt by revelations that clinical negligence cla...
ZIFA to double mortgage network.
Zurich Independent Financial Adviser Group aims to double its mortgage network by the end of the sum...
Keeping track of the rules.
Veronica Cowan reports how new regulations have put added pressures on the already difficult employers' liability market.
Kidnappings on the increase
Kidnappings for ransom reached record numbers last year with Latin America still the worst region acc...