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Insurer relief at consultants' contract veto
Standard Life Healthcare, the UK's fourth largest private medical insurer, has welcomed last week's...
Houlder Insurance Services recruits specialist team
London broker Houlder Insurance Services has recruited a specialist construction liability and prop...
Good start for Levene as Lloyd's looks up
Lord Levene, who this week takes the chair at Lloyd's, has had a good start, with figures showing L...
QBE side-steps asbestos case
Australian insurer QBE has sought to distance itself from the asbestos-related legal action launche...
Fire strike poses a very real threat
As a member of the business continuity community, I am especially worried by the prospect of a fire...
Aurora signs first contracts
Aurora Corporate Services, formed to run off Independent Insurance on behalf of liquidator Pricewat...
Liberata Life enters into contract
Liberata Life, Pensions & Investments, a division of Liberata, has entered into a contract to provi...
HGIS in Leeds move
Halifax General Insurance has created 70 new jobs in Leeds, with the opening of a new state-of-the-...
Club Direct sale is "close"
Travel insurance specialist Club Direct, which was wound up by the High Court last week, is expecte...
EU opposition
The majority of UK insurance company chief executives are opposed to the creation of a super-super ...
Courts give short shrift to late amendments - Maguire v Molin
(Court of Appeal - 24 July 2002) Proceedings were commenced on 7 December 2000 to claim damages f...
Smart & Cook acquires AN Insurance Brokers
Smart & Cook Group, the Harrogate-based independent financial services company, has acquired AN Ins...
What the papers said this week
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Names involved in Lloyd's must make an interim payment of £650,000 to the i...
PYV Group acquires Pointon York Sipp Solutions
PYV Group has acquired Pointon York Sipp Solutions from Pointon York for an undisclosed sum. PYSS p...
John Finnegan to replace Chubb chief exec
John Finnegan is set to replace long-serving Chubb chief executive and president Dean O'Hare when t...
Aon decision will have no effect on UK operations
Broker giant Aon this week insisted its decision to turn its back on "a speciality property and cas...
ISO launches web PI service
Claims software and services provider ISO this week launched its first web-based personal injury cl...
Bluesure not so sure anymore
Multi-line insurer Bluesure could abandon Lloyd's if capacity can be found in the company market. C...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths
This is the latest site from the Goodfellows Group and pretty good it looks too. It calls this its ...
Post Mag golf trip fully booked
The Post Magazine/Professional Broking golf trip to France from 13-15 November is now fully booked....
RAC giant set to stir
RAC Financial Services will launch a new home insurance panel within a year and is reviewing other ...
Barriers rise over India call
Prudential's eleventh-hour deal with trade unions last week over its plan to switch jobs to India c...
Settling out-of-court is not always the best policy for insurers.
In a recent article (Money for nothing?, Post Magazine claims supplement, 24 October, p5), you refer...
House of Lords plays vital role
As the government looks to forge ahead with its planned changes to the UK's competition regime, Lord Hunt highlights the role of the House of Lords in examining ill-thought-out legislation.