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Tackling EL crisis.
Lombard General Insurance has launched a new information leaflet to inform policyholders about the r...
Industry must rise to home-buying challenges.
The government deserves credit for its initiative to tackle the chaotic and ludicrously out-dated sy...
Loss adjuster Miller to extend its service.
Loss adjuster Miller has announced that it is to extend its Repairline service to the whole of the U...
Barclays Bank has new venture in the Caribbean.
Barclays Bank is coconuts about its new offshore banking venture in the Caribbean. The initiative is...
Insurers react with caution.
Insurers have reacted with caution to a new move by the government to make buying a house quicker an...
The future is looking gloomy.
That's the conclusion of international rating agency Fitch IBCA after it carried out a review of the UK property damage market. Chris Klein explains why there is a storm brewing.
Tackling a changing landscape.
Devon and Cornwall have seen many insurers flee the region. Francis Higney visited those who have stayed to assess the state of play.
ABI looks to reinsurers for Y2K database.
The Association of British Insurers' year 2000 database is being broadened to include reinsurers fro...
Axa's contractor policy.
AXA Insurance has launched a policy designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of contractors...
ACE launches aviation division for high-fliers.
ACE USA has shuffled its cards and announced two new business ventures. Firstly, it has formed an...
Price still dictates where people go for insurance.
A national opinion poll has shown that over two thirds of people who changed their home insurance la...
Kidnapped' cabbie is subject of fraud probe.
Insurance claims investigators are probing a series of traffic accident claims made by a taxi driver...
Featherstone to retire.
Clive Featherstone, deputy chairman of Fishers International, is retiring from the company after 11 ...
Hike in car premiums.
The Slovenian government said it is set to increase car insurance policies by up to three per cent f...
Families to sue surgeon over pensioner's death.
Four New Zealand families are seeking £600,000 worth of damages and costs from a English surgeon aft...
Date for legal merger.
The merger between solicitors Beachcroft Stanleys and Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave is to go ahead fro...
Guardian's free e-mail.
Home and motor insurer Guardian Direct has become the first insurer to offer a free personal e-mail ...
Straight-talker moves on.
I see that Alan Fleming is on the move. The high-profile director of global risk management at Dia...
Tories and Lib Dems team up to scupper NHS Bill.
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have lined up in opposition against the government's Road Tr...
Commercial business heats up.
Corporate court cases are on the increase throughout the UK. This is opening up fresh opportunities for commercial legal expenses insurers, who are showing innovation in a busy market, as Kevin Pratt explains.
FMW waves off 'Life to Romania' charity van.
FMW recently waved off a van before its three-day drive to Romania to deliver desperately needed foo...
Future of SOFA still not sitting comfortably.
The future direction for the Society of Financial Advisers is still uncertain despite a comprehensiv...
Grim warning for the future.
Insurers in the the UK motor market have been warned to expect "more bloodshed" and drastic premium ...
What the papers say.
DAILY STAR Road rage has made most drivers scared to help other motorists in distress according t...