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Accidents will happen.
Every five minutes, someone in the UK has a serious accident - and many of these happen in the home. Yet personal accident insurance is relatively low on most people's shopping list. Simon Threadgold looks at how insurers are getting the importance of…
Great Eastern cross-selling.
Great Eastern Life Assurance Co and Keppel Insurance have entered into a cross-selling deal that wil...
MMA increases its online offering.
Broker-only insurer MMA has increased its online offering, on the Software Solutions Partners Gilt E...
Subsidence monitoring questioned.
Loss adjusters and engineers have been challenged to justify the almost universal monitoring of buil...
View from the Top - Harriet Eisner
Harriet Eisner, international officer, Amicus-MSF The long-awaited and controversial Information an...
Senior management quit Aon.
Two senior directors have left Aon Motor Accident Management in the UK. The departures come in th...
Survey sparks anger over women's pay.
I have just read the Post Magazine Annual Workplace Survey (PM, 13 June). Being responsible for huma...
Full details of judgement published today.
The full detail of the House of Lords judgement in the Fairchild, Fox and Matthews mesothelioma comp...
Appointment at MNPA.
Pensions administration specialist MNPA has made Sue Applegarth its new managing director. She takes...
Groupama UK not affected by decision.
Groupama UK will not be affected by its French parent's decision to appoint management consultant Ac...
NU in brokers' bad books again.
Brokers have reacted angrily to Norwich Union's decision to restructure its national claims operatio...
Levene seen as link to the banking world for Lloyd's.
The appointment of Lord Levene of Portsoken as the next chairman of Lloyd's, the first person to be ...
Appointment at Capita McLarens.
Andrew Homewood joins Capita McLarens as regional director for the South-east. His main focus will b...
Green Flag introduces SMS text messaging technology.
Motor assistance provider Green Flag has introduced SMS text messaging technology to assure stranded...
NU to open up data files to rivals.
Chris Hill, who took over as head of claims fraud at Norwich Union in April, plans to try to kick-sta...
Wellington faces its next Waterloo.
Uncertainties as to the future of Lloyd's insurer Wellington have surfaced, as it faces a crucial vot...
Insurer has not played fair over renewal of motor policy.
My wife recalled last night that our insurance policy was due for renewal. After checking our ins...
Government must act on ASU scandal.
Outspoken critic of the insurance industry Paul Flynn MP last week warned that accident, sickness and...
IFAs must support action against insurers.
The time has now come for all independent financial advisers to support a collective High Court acti...
What the papers said this week.
Daily Mail A teenage girl who spent hours talking on her mobile phone each day has died from a br...
FSA and Fitch closer to adequacy agreement.
The Financial Services Authority has conceded ground in its war of words with rating agency Fitch, ac...
Appointment at Misys Insurance Management.
Tim Rogers has been appointed to the newly-created position of Countrywide fleet manager at Misys In...
Appointment at Wyatt Gallagher Bassett.
Provider of claims and risk management and loss adjusting services Wyatt Gallagher Bassett has taken...
Churchill development enters second phase.
Churchill Insurance has entered phase two in the development of its broker division. It is unrolling...