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What is the Insurance Charities?
The Insurance Charities is the marketing name for the long-established Insurance Benevolent and Orph...
Zurich sell off to halt slump.
Zurich Financial Services, which last week recorded a 5.5% fall in net profits to $2.1bn (£1.36bn) a...
National campaign launched.
Chairman of income protection insurer Unum Lawrence Churchill has launched a national campaign to im...
Directors forego bonuses.
Four executive directors at Independent, Michael Bright, Phil Condon, Dennis Lomas and John Blakemor...
Appointment at CNA Insurance.
Angus Cameron has been appointed to the newly-created position of chief financial officer at CNA Eur...
... a City development broker.
Gareth Piggott is a development broker for City broker TL Clowes and is in the lucky position of being able to combine business with pleasure. He talks to Jane Bernstein about his role in the saddle as the company's face of motorcycle sport insurance and…
Appointment at Darwin Rhodes.
Darwin Rhodes, recruitment consultants for the financial services industry, has a new consultant on ...
Initiative to prevent caravan theft.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has joined forces with the Association of Chief Police Officers and th...
Equity ISAs drop.
Sales of equity individual savings accounts fell by 29% last month as private investors - many of wh...
Thrifty cover.
Broker SBJ and Lloyd's insurer Octavian are covering Thrifty Car Rental, the world's sixth largest v...
BCCI: Bank to pay.
The Bank of England is to be sued for up to £1bn for its part in the collapse of Bank of Credit and ...
Claimline expands.
Surrey-based personal injury no win, no fee specialist Claimline is understood to be seeking financi...
Insurers spared PI payout.
Insurers have been spared a £380m bill by a Court of Appeal decision that has kept the discount rate...
Appointment at SLE Worldwide.
Mike Stevenson and Mike Patchett have been appointed to the board of SLE Worldwide. Mr Stevenson was...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Peter Hadden, director of Independent Insurance, has taken on responsibility for managing the group'...
Hart backs down on mutuality.
Gordon Hart, the leader of the Members' Rights Campaign, set up following last year's failed demutua...
Raising awareness of risk management.
This week, broker Marsh became one of the first companies to receive its licence to run the new Mana...
MMT: site for LMP.
MMT Computing has launched the LMP2001 website at www.lmp2001.com to enable industry members to acce...
Hybrid warning.
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has expressed concern about the boundaries between...
Ex-PC loses stress liability claim.
Liability insurers were able to breath a sigh of relief last week, following the rejection by the co...
Industry faces Hepatitis claims.
Health insurers could face substantial pay-outs after it emerged this week that 20 people have contr...
Fusion recruits.
Fusion, part of Lloyd's vehicle SVB, has recruited another three senior development managers from In...
Ford claims fear.
The London market could be facing a multi-million-pound asbestos bill from car manufacturer Ford, af...
Kyoei to join Millea.
Kyoei Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance is to join the Millea Insurance Group being set up by three oth...