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Appointment at IPS
Leigh Lipscombe has become manager of IPS' Manchester office. After spending four years at the group...
Lloyd's boss praises market improvements
Lloyd's head of business process reform, Iain Saville, has said that overall slip quality increased ...
Heath Lambert launches cover for cargo destined for Iraq
Heath Lambert has launched cover for clients' cargo needs to destinations anywhere in Iraq. The brok...
Biba chases Toba two
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has said it will write to partner insurers that have yet ...
Appointment at Channel Islands Adjusters
Husband-and-wife team Richard and Julie-anne Headington will head up Channel Islands Adjusters, a ne...
AUA Insurance joins insurE-com insurer panel
AUA Insurance has joined the insurE-com insurer panel, offering two household products to insurE-com...
What the papers said this week
Daily Mirror Thousands of window cleaners are throwing in the shammy (sic) leather due to spirallin...
Airmic announces results of survey
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers this week revealed that only a handful of non-interme...
Why a claims standard?
According to Harry Roberts, representing the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, the insurance in...
Dual Corporate Risks announces exclusive partnership
Dual Corporate Risks, has announced an exclusive partnership with Arch Insurance Company (Europe) to...
Satellite tracking 'can pinpoint at risk drivers'
How would you feel if your monthly insurance statement included an analysis showing 95% of drivers w...
Appointment at Rainbow International
Restoration and recovery specialist Rainbow International has recruited David Carr to its team of na...
Cybersettle 'has saved New York State £3.2m'
The State of New York, the largest defendant in New York, has saved £3.2m in a 90-day trial of the C...
Number-plate readers could cut estate crime
Automatic Number-Plate Recognition technology, if used properly and tied into a range of other datab...
US network sets out 2009 insurer target after UK launch
US motor repairer network Fix Auto has set an ambitious target of being on "most insurers'" approved...
Action not words
The Post Magazine Claims Club has agreed to champion efforts to create a new customer-focused claims...
Elite Incident Management compiles database
Claims services firm Elite Incident Management is compiling a database of accidents involving fleet ...
Open House
A total of 4000 people visited the Lloyd's building (above) and 7000 the Swiss Re tower across the r...
Fraud pilot rolled out
An anti-fraud service has been launched for small and medium-sized personal lines insurers that lack...
RSA: talk of orphan business is overstated
Royal and Sun Alliance is unconcerned by the low number of secondary intermediaries applying for gen...
Club vows to create a new industry 'claims standard'
The Post Magazine Claims Club agreed to take up the challenge of championing efforts to create a new...
SVB claims provision to be tested by November
The £103m claims provision set aside by Lloyd's insurer SVB could be tested in November if the outco...
Hercules Property Services confirms takeover talks
Hercules Property Services has confirmed it is in takeover talks with a potential bidder for its ent...
Appointment at XL Capital
XL Capital has appointed Mark Callahan as chief actuarial officer of its insurance operations. Mr Ca...