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MMA: electRa motor drive
Broker-only insurer MMA Insurance has launched its first combined motor insurance and breakdown pro...
Davies: new adjusting arm
Loss adjuster Davies Group is set to establish a new nationwide agricultural division to capitalise...
Insurers tighten war risks
The Joint International Underwriting Association/Lloyd's War Risks Committee reacted immediately to t...
Safety chain
As insurers take greater control of contractor networks, they could be caught out by Health & Safety Executive moves to hold senior managers accountable for fatal workplace accidents. Steve Watkins believes it is vital to raise the awareness of insurers…
Bupa focuses on intermediated
Private medical insurance provider Bupa is targeting the intermediated channel for growth, having e...
Appointment at Claims Management Group
The Claims Management Group has appointed Philip Grant as director of its London market division. H...
Events
20 March Lloyd's lecture - the chairman's view Lloyd's Old Library London Tel: 020 76...
Who wears the trousers?
Once again dress code has been hauled through the courts. Bob Jones advises firms to think carefully before they start imposing new rules in the workplace.
New Axa claims head sets costs targets
The new claims manager for Axa UK David Williams has vowed to look at rehabilitation and mediation ...
Football competition results
The winner of a pair of tickets to a football match of their choice in the Avon/Post Magazine compe...
Inland flood fears over score system
Floods minister Elliot Morley and the insurance industry have played down concerns that the governmen...
FSA: discounts for early submissions
Financial incentives to encourage the early and electronic submission of authorisation applications i...
Orbis on track again after backer pulls out
New Guernsey-based insurer Orbis Capital is aiming to start writing risks later this year to cover ...
Appointment at DAS
Legal expenses insurer DAS has recruited Derek Cottrell to the new position of reinsurance technici...
Two-year wait for new government flood system
Insurers have welcomed the government's announcement of a new streamlined system for flood manageme...
Testing times in an unhealthy sector
Asbestos-related deaths are mounting and with them, the volume of compensation having to be paid out to claimants and their dependents. Andrew Morgan asks whether insurers can cope with the continual drip, drip, drip of claims coming through.
Regulation gets down to the bottom line
At long last, the Financial Services Authority has outlined its thinking on broker solvency require...
Think-tank tackles ATE
Insurers and claims management companies came face to face last week under the auspices of an ind...
Appointment at Chaucer
Richard Scholes has become a non-executive director at Chaucer. Mr Scholes has worked in the City s...
Penny Black's insurance week
With the deteriorating situation over Iraq, Penny's thoughts turned to the loss adjusters still in ...
Data flaws lead to MASS disc call
The new chairman of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society Ian Shovlin has called for windscreen ins...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths
There is something quite reassuring about the use of the bold orange colour on the front page of th...
PI Direct seeks boost via acquisition
The chief executive of underwriting agency PI Direct Michael Wood has led a successful management b...
Appointment at Thomas, Carroll Group
Wales-based broker Thomas, Carroll has appointed Julie Mackie and Gareth Cotty, reuniting them with...