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NU sends 4000 underwriters to school
Norwich Union today launched an academy to hone the skills of more than 4,000 of its underwriters. ...
Miller Fisher delay.
Outsourcing group Miller Fisher has put back the date for its preliminary results until next week. I...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny thinks the lovely sounding Aurora, the company formed from the ashes of Independent, needs to h...
GISC delay again.
The delayed ruling from the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal, on the Institute of Insurance Br...
Wren: Alder rights.
Lloyd's insurer Wren, part of Brit Insurance Holdings, is to acquire the right to manage syndicate 4...
Immoral supplier contracts.
I feel I must take issue with your correspondents on the subject of former policyholders being made r...
Cotesworth failure.
The Lloyd's underwriting agent Cotesworth has put its managed marine syndicate 535 and its non-marin...
Survey by Taxi Newspaper and Pointsec Mobile Technologies.
Millions of pounds worth of mobile phones and laptop computers are left in black cabs every year, ac...
Anti-euro slip up.
International broking giant Aon this week moved to distance itself from the anti-euro campaign, afte...
MD snaps up rival's business.
Medicals Direct Group, which specialises in providing medical reports to the UK insurance industry, ...
Cornhill quits travel sector.
The travel scheme sector contracted further this week with Allianz Cornhill confirming it had withdra...
A winning hand?
When solicitors' indemnity went on the open market, insurers were cautious about gambling on a relatively unknown entity. One year on, the stakes look set to rise and Jane Bernstein asks if insurers could have got their odds wrong.
Helphire and AA in joint venture.
Credit hire group Helphire's services could soon be offered by the AA, as part of a major joint vent...
Inreon: Swiss move.
Inreon, the internet-based reinsurance trading exchange set up by Munich Re, Swiss Re, Accenture and...
NFU "ripe" for demutualisation.
Former director of NFU Mutual, John Murray, believes the insurer is ripe for demutualisation, despit...
Francis to head flood delegation.
Mary Francis, director general of the Association of British Insurers, and senior representatives fro...
Hibernian Ignites.
Hibernian has become the latest Irish insurer to introduce a scheme to help reduce claims among youn...
What the Papers Say.
Daily Express Smokers have long had to pay higher life and health insurance premiums, but now boo...
HST to take AIM.
HST Financial, the financial services distribution company, plans to seek admission to trade on AIM ...
Moody's forecasts substantial losses for Lloyd's
Rating agency Moody's is predicting substantial losses for Lloyd's, with £1.7bn forecast for 1999; £1...
Mortgage cover.
A new website www.insureyour mortgage.co.uk, has gone live, offering customers mortgage payment prot...
The fast buck stops where?
The government's belated decision to launch an inquiry into what went wrong at Equitable Life is wel...
Loss Recovery Group set to float.
The Loss Recovery Group plans to seek a stock market flotation in 2003 on AIM, according to managing...
Five-a-side charity challenge launched.
Post Magazine is delighted to announce a new football challenge for the insurance industry - The Pos...