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GAB Eyes up its customers.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins is set to launch a new internet-based claims management service in partnersh...
Litigation: a risky business calling for generous success fees?
The question of the recoverability of success fees, where a case is settled before proceedings, has ...
NU set to unveil adjuster panel.
Norwich Union is expected to wield the axe on several adjusters, when it unveils its eagerly-awaited ...
New roots for Plant.
Surrey-based loss adjuster Specialist Plant Investigations has opened two new offices in Bristol and...
InsurE-com total up.
Insurance software house insurE-com has claimed the registration of 278 more intermediaries followin...
St Paul legal stretch.
The St Paul has extended its free partnership replacement plan to all its 2-15 partner firms. Under ...
IMR helps CBS.
US-based IT company, IMR Global, has delivered a new e-commerce application for Cheshire Building So...
Appointment at NIG.
After 39 years at NIG, Geoff Tooby has retired as manager of the commercial division - Lyn Carslake ...
Axa acquires Markel Hong Kong
Axa Corporate Solutions has continued its ongoing expansion plan with the opening of an office in Hon...
Not so Goodfellows on disability site.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Turning up the heat.
At last week's Post Magazine round table meeting of brokers and insurers, some of the controversial issues surrounding the current state of the commercial lines sector were thrashed out. Jane Bernstein watched the sparks fly.
London market continues to fail in IT.
The London market is "focused too much on itself rather than on client value", said Stephen Riley, j...
The bigger picture.
Risk management training has many advantages to offer brokers but to get the most out of it they should adopt a less superficial approach and go back to the drawing board, says David Fanning.
Appointment at Zurich London.
Seynabou Ba has joined Zurich London's environmental underwriting team. Prior to this appointment, M...
DSS: government sees sense.
The insurance industry must have breathed a sigh of relief this week as the government was finally fo...
Appointment at Groupama Insurances.
Groupama Personal Insurances has appointed Barry Hawkins as knowledge manager, with responsibility f...
Self-control.
Many risk managers are following the trend towards greater self-insurance, as playing the numbers game in-house gives organisations more control over all aspects of claims, says Lynn Rouse.
Self-regulation failed.
Staged in Kilkenny, this year's Insurance Institute of Ireland annual conference concentrated on the industry's need to prevent complacency within the industry threatening the advances already made. Edward Murray reports.
Bruce to aid ZSP.
Zurich Strategic Partners has seconded Richard Bruce to help its clients meet the General Insurance ...
Government plans for Irish e-hub.
Addressing this year's annual conference, Minister for Science Technology & Commerce Noel Treacy cla...
A better solution?
New legislation has given alternative dispute resolution a much-needed boost in the UK. However, for some the jury is still out on the acceptance of mediation as a way forward, says David Fanning.
A Day in the Life of... a restoration specialist
Jamie Nash has won royal acclaim for his work as a restoration specialist for Munters. Richard Adams spent a day with him and discovered that even faced with the worst flooding in Kent for many years, it all came out in the wash.
LG turnover up.
City firm Lawrence Graham has recorded a significant increase in turnover for the last financial yea...
Claims managers of many talents.
In today's workplace, claims managers need a whole new set of qualities to help cope with their increasingly demanding roles, and top-level candidates are hard to find, says Richard Adams.