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Signings for the Willis Commercial Network
The Willis Commercial Network has signed Ian MacDonald Insurance Services of Inverness and Spence In...
Helphire provides incentives to bodyshops
Helphire is providing incentives to bodyshops that refer credit-repair work, by reducing its factori...
Fortis aims for higher premiums
Fortis UK will make a push for the higher end of the motor market in 2005. The insurer said it has ...
Asbestos appeal may trigger cases
A court ruling in an asbestos case could stir up debate about the threshold between negligent and no...
Premex rebrands after trademark case
Medical reports provider Expedia Services has denied its name change to Premex happened as a direct ...
Date is set for NU fraud case
Former Norwich Union employee Carol Birrell is due to appear in court in February to receive her sen...
Alex Forbes plans business shake-up
Alexander Forbes Risk Services is piloting a number of regional centres of excellence as it looks to...
Argent Liability Adjusters launches pilot service
Argent Liability Adjusters has launched a rehabilitation pilot with RTW Plus, a specialist rehabilit...
Pavillion Insurance Network to raise funds
The Pavillion Insurance Network is expecting to raise £470,000 by placing more than nine million ord...
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Housewives in Italy aged between 18 and 65 were this week forced to take out compulsory insurance of...
St Paul Travelers to complete sale of Cassidy Davis
St Paul Travelers said it expects to complete the sale of its Cassidy Davis personal lines book to L...
Zurich Municipal launches services
Zurich Municipal has launched a service to help public sector organisations respond to disasters, fr...
What the papers said this week
The Guardian Mobile phone insurance sold in high-street shops is largely an expensive waste of mone...
Referee wins second defence
A rugby referee who was sued for allegedly failing to control the scrum properly in a rugby match - ...
Software boss: first profits in next 18 months
Broker software supplier Insure-com is about to start a major expansion push after appointing Philip...
L&G outlines plans for 15% share
Legal and General has ambitions to capture 15% of the life protection market inside twelve months, f...
Loss assessor charged over alleged money laundering
Loss assessor David Rawstron of Salisbury, Hamer, Aspden and Johnson, has been charged along with se...
Barclays names non-life as target
Barclays Bank is actively targeting the non-life run-off sector for investment opportunities in 2005...
Cavell appoints Bob Moore to management team
London market and international run-off specialist Cavell has appointed Bob Moore to its management ...
CILA nears government protocol deal
The Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters is close to agreeing a protocol with the government to all...
The plastic surgeon's nightmare
The Medical Defence Union has reported a gradual increase in the number of plastic surgery medical n...
Easy rider
Bennetts Insurance Services will be the title sponsor of the British Superbike Championship in 2005,...
Tiner details scope of enforcement review
John Tiner, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, has announced the scope, form and timing of the promised review of the FSA's enforcement processes. The review will be led by David Strachan, FSA director of retail firms and sector leader…
Haddrill handed top job at ABI
The Association of British Insurers today announced the appointment of Stephen Haddrill as director general in succession to Mary Francis. He will take up his position on 3 May 2005.