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CIS enters group pension market.
Manchester-based Co-operative Insurance Society has entered the group pension market with a stakehol...
Cornell at the helm.
Clifford Chance partners have voted for joint European managing partner Peter Cornell to become thei...
Pearl in data deal.
Pearl Assurance has begun working on a multi-million-pound data migration contract with the data tra...
Sick travellers get the AllClear.
Bishopscourt Group Insurance Services has launched a new travel policy, AllClear Plus, aimed at holi...
Ace's high profits.
Ace has reported net income for the first quarter of 2001 of $118m (£81.3m) compared to $175m for th...
Homing in on costs.
Home improvement website improveline.com believes it can save the insurance industry over £100m a ye...
Compensation crisis for CIGA.
The state-run California Insurance Guarantee Association, which protects workers whose employers bou...
Go west.
Bristol has channelled its energies into attracting the major insurers to its environs, and the city is now experiencing a boom across the board. The insurance industry can only gain, says Edward Murray.
RSA to sell off Swinton chain
UK insurer Royal and Sun Alliance is to sell its Manchester-based broking subsidiary, Swinton (Holdin...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny enjoyed her stay at Belfast last week for BIBA and appreciated the tea-ladies sponsored by Ale...
Law in Lloyd's move.
Independent broker Camberford Law, which deals mainly in scheme business, plans to open a broking op...
Chaucer in claims battle.
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer is locked in a battle with four Australian reinsurers that are refusing to p...
Mutual shares.
Mutual life insurer Friends Provident is expected to issue a circular to its 1.5 million members wit...
DTI holds firm over Chester Street
The government continued to duck the issue today over whether a full inquiry should be undertaken in...
Fleet of accidents.
Poor returns from the fleet insurance market, reduced capacity and increased risks should all drive ...
FIS sees fund losses.
Friends Ivory & Sime, the asset manager, said this week it expected to lose £1.4bn-worth of funds un...
Lloyd's admits six new brokers.
Six new insurance brokers have been admitted to Lloyd's, including the first non-UK based brokers ev...
Appointment at Walsh PI.
Walsh PI, the specialist professional indemnity loss adjuster, has recruited Martin Heath as directo...
Appointment at Cottrill Stone Lawless.
Manchester law firm Cottrill Stone Lawless has appointed personal injury specialist Vicken Couligian...
Insurers lead on IT.
The insurance sector has come out ahead of its banking and retail counterparts in terms of IT knowle...
Swiss Re: net profit.
Swiss Re, the world's second-largest reinsurer, has reported a net profit rise of 21% to Swiss Fr 2....
ABI introduces endowment code.
The Association of British Insurers is to draw up a new practice code to cater for endowment mortgag...
Whistleblower seeks damages.
Garrett v Camden London Borough Council; 16 March 2001, Court of Appeal.
Terence Chapman takes on chess player.
Terence Chapman, chief executive and founder of financial services technology consultancy Terence Ch...