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US giant picks NU.
America's fourth largest credit card issuer, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co, has chosen Norwich Uni...
Mapping and web.
Giant Italian insurer Assitalia aims to put its brokers on the map with the launch of its website de...
Buy affects profits.
Berkshire Hathaway's acquisition of General Re has been blamed for hurting its third-quarter returns...
Appointment at Prime Health.
Philip Wright has been appointed to the board of Standard Life's private medical insurance subsidiar...
£393m for SVB.
Lloyd's managing agency SVB Syndicates, a subsidiary of SVB Holdings, has announced capacity under m...
Axe to fall on direct sales.
Door-to-door insurers are ready to follow the lead given by Prudential which is to scrap its direct ...
Obvious route to leave behind financial exclusion.
With reference to your lead story 'Key roll for insurers in drive to help poor' (PM 18 November, p1)...
Tony Boorman to be new Insurance Ombudsman.
Tony Boorman is to be the new Insurance Ombudsman as part of the arrangements for the Financial Serv...
Italy.
The Italian cabinet has approved legislation to require insurers to come up with standard motor liab...
Breaking the lore.
The shape of the legal expenses insurance market is changing and in ways that some of the sector's major players believe are not for the better. Marcus Alcock investigates.
Time to put words into action.
The UK has a shameful record on getting seriously injured people back to work. This has a huge hu...
Post Magazine Management Briefing.
The State of the Market' was the title of the most recent Post Magazine Management Briefing, sponsor...
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Appointment at Independent Insurance
Steven Nightingale has joined Independent Insurance as senior sales inspector at its Leicester offic...
Consequential loss axed in favour of business
The British Insurance Brokers Consequential Loss Society is to be overhauled. It has decided to chang...
Appointment at Swiss Life UK.
Nicola Smith has been appointed marketing consultant for employee benefits by Swiss Life UK. She joi...
Reinsurers could be handed huge mis-selling bill.
Reinsurers could be left to pick up a significant part of the £11bn pensions mis-selling bill, accor...
Friendly bonus.
United Friendly is offering what it claims is a market leading first year guaranteed bonus rate of 9...
Long haul high risk.
The road haulage industry is currently enduring a bumpy ride and it does not look like getting any b...
The value of ratings.
In today's fast changing market, an insurer can gain much from a good relationship with ratings agencies. One of the most important benefits is that a rating indicates the insurer's real strength to third parties such as potential investors.
Appointment at United Assurance.
David Amos has joined the board of United Assurance Group as an executive director. He joined the co...
Appointment at Munters.
Property restoration company Munters has appointed four new restoration technicians at its Aberdeen ...
Learning from the past is the key to the future.
The only certainty in the future is change - massive, relentless, uncompromising change. Tim Ablett points a finger at the insurance industry and says the best way that it can help itself is by learning from past mistakes.
Grim prediction for Lloyd's.
Lloyd's is heading for spectacularly high losses for 1997-2000, according to rating agency Moody's. ...