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Is this the beginning of the end?
Lloyd's is in trouble. With the number of members at its lowest for 20 years, some are predicting that the crisis could destroy Lloyd's. Alex Miller investigates how it came to be in its unenviable position.
Exclusive - Crowe rigs trucks to capture crashes.
Truckers are set to become snappers in an initiative designed to help insurers discover more about r...
LIRMA's 'join us' plea to Lloyd's.
Tim Carroll, deputy chairman of the London International Insurance and Reinsurance Market Associatio...
Let rich pay for poors' pensions'.
Social Security chief Harriet Harman should take a leaf out of Robin Hood's book and take pensions f...
Train crash claims 100 lives.
German crash investigators are still trying to piece together the cause of the train crash which cla...
Canada Life gets review boost.
More products, a revamp of existing policies and bold new growth have been promised by the head of C...
Swinton tie up Hambro.
Hambro Assistance has secured a contract to provide legal expenses and helpline services to customer...
Survival of the fittest' will rule global players.
Global competition is to get tougher, and premiums lower, with only the major players set to make th...
Exclusive - Avoiding Bug bill could be mission impossible.
Insurance giant Allianz has thrown open the whole debate over year 2000 exclusion clauses in a state...
Research shows British public still hostile towards EMU.
Public opinion in the UK remains anti-EMU, with no signs of any significant pro-EMU dividend from th...
HHH still hard on the regional acquisitions trail.
Hill House Hammond has continued its campaign to acquire regional brokers, following the announcemen...
Do older motorists have adequate breakdown cover?
Older motorists trying to escape the World Cup by going on holiday have been urged to ensure they ha...
Whatever the weather.
Lloyd's Syndicate 588 has launched weather stabilisation cover to protect businesses from weather di...
Bank wins 'unfair' advantage.
Canadian insurers are furious over a deal which permits a banking institution to move into the insur...
30,000 people find IFAs.
IFA Promotion's consumer hotline generated over 72,000 calls last year of which 32 719 went on to vi...
Pros and cons of delay tactics.
A claimant can take up to 2191 days (1095 in personal injury cases) to initiate proceedings. A defen...
Appointment at Alder Life.
Underwriters Alder Life Karen Close has been appointed to the newly-created position of executive me...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent has appointed Mark Quartermaine as its new market research manager in its marketing depa...
Winning from the subs bench.
The word subrogation is added to the vocabulary of insurance students in their early days and stays with them throughout their career. Ken Cannar outlines the history of the term.
LGH call centre opens.
London General Holdings has opened a new £500,000 call centre at its head office in Kingston upon Th...
Lottery Masterplan.
Scottish General and MasterPlan have joined forces to launch an incentive to reward MasterPlan membe...
ABI to send travel fraud packing.
The Association of British Insurers, the Foreign Office and police forces across the world are set t...
MSB motivation guide.
Managing the Service Business (MSB) has released a guide to motivating employees through effective r...
What the papers say.
THE INDEPENDENT The Institute of London Underwriters, whose members wrote the insurance policies ...