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St Paul eyes UK for IT platform
Insurer St Paul has not ruled out introducing its new US technology platform for agents and brokers...
Sherwood International continues to expand
IT service provider Sherwood International says it will continue to expand its business into emergi...
Heath Lambert sells its Stoke commercial operations
Heath Lambert has sold its Stoke commercial operations to Bayliss & Cooke. Four of the staff there ...
Zurich: jobs come and go
Zurich insisted this week that it was still committed to the corporate affinity market, following i...
Swiss Re forecasts a loss
Downturns in investment markets have led Swiss Re to forecast a loss of SFr100m (£46m) in 2002. In ...
Paul Jardine appointed chief executive of Catlin Underwriting
Paul Jardine has been appointed chief executive of Catlin Underwriting Agencies, which manages Syndi...
Snowball: personal warning
Norwich Union chief executive Patrick Snowball has warned of increasing competition in the personal...
Appointment at Veitch Penny.
Exeter law practice Veitch Penny, which specialises in defendant personal injury work for insurers a...
Apathy threat to industry
It is hard to believe, but despite regulation being at the top of most brokers' and insurers' agend...
What the papers said this week
The Metro A fraudster went to the police station to report that her expensive ski trousers were...
There's many a slip ...
Local authorities have witnessed a staggering increase in the number of slip and trip claims. Mira Butterworth finds out how the insurance industry is dealing with the stumbling blocks caused by claims farmers and fraud, and paving the way to a greatly…
Broker unveils Lloyd's Access
Broker Goss Group has launched Access Underwriting Agencies, which is aimed at providing intermedia...
Allianz Cornhill implements EFT software
Insurer Allianz Cornhill has implemented Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) software from eTransaction...
Lloyd's set for profit rise
Lloyd's insurers are predicting substantial profits for 2002, with significant rate increases and a...
Sirius Financial Systems strikes deal with Annan Insurance Group
Insurance technology provider Sirius Financial Systems has struck a deal with Wolverhampton-based b...
NU set for Asda tie-up
Norwich Union is close to announcing a major tie-up with supermarket chain Asda to sell general insur...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill.
Catherine Dixon has been made packages account manager at Allianz Cornhill. She has been with the in...
Rubicon Corporation acquires rights to telebroking software
Outsource service provider Rubicon Corporation has acquired the rights to the telebroking software ...
InsurE-com contracted by Cooke & Mason
Broker solutions provider InsurE-com has been contracted by commercial broker Cooke & Mason to impl...
Appointment at Stuart Alexander.
Dick Tucker has joined Stuart Alexander as group compliance and process improvement manager. Mr Tuck...
Just click your name
Signing your name on a document at the touch of a button is one of the latest technological developments used to tackle security over the internet. Jim Leason assesses digital signatures.
The AA teams up with Europcar
The AA has teamed up with Europcar to provide all its new and existing customers with a courtesy ca...
ABI: pressure on renewals
The Association of British Insurers has come under renewed pressure to introduce defined notice per...
Appointment at Chartered Insurance Institute.
Kevin Mills has been appointed as the new IT manager of the Chartered Insurance Institute's computer...