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Penny Black's insurance week.
One realises that companies like to promote effective lines of communication between employees and m...
New Channel sets sites on laptop market.
Insurer New Channel, a subsidiary of venture capitalist the Summit Group, has launched a computer an...
Chubb unlocks net.
US insurer Chubb is set to take its property and casualty claims processing online, following an ong...
A case to be heard.
Acoustic shock syndrome has been described as the industrial disease of the 21st century, and call centre employers are taking it very seriously indeed. Lynn Rouse discovers how they are protecting their staff.
US losses soar.
The latest figures from the Insurance Services Office and the National Association of Independent In...
Speedy e-solutions.
Software and consulting company IDS Scheer is to launch a suite of e-finance B2B and B2C solutions i...
Lloyd's is losing the plot.
Lloyd's has been "consistently losing ground" to other insurance markets since the mid-1990s and urg...
Survey Overview.
The results of this salary survey suggest insurers and intermediaries have more in common than they think. Mark Cliff considers why this might be.
Death duties.
A multi-state task force of state regulators is investigating dozens of life insurers, including Met...
Insurance Industry Annual Salary Survey 2001.
This salary survey, to be an annual event, is the first step to the insurance industry understanding its own business, says Anthony Gould.
Draft Indian pay rules welcomed.
The Indian government is set to introduce draft legislation to allow commission payments to insuranc...
How qualified are you?
Methodology/sample info This report was commissioned by Post Magazine and AXA Insurance and carrie...
Appointment at SVB Underwriting Services.
Anita Hawkes has been taken on by SVB Underwriting Services as its marketing and communications mana...
Swiss rolls in profits.
Swiss Life net profit more than doubled in 2000 to Swiss francs 924m (£338m), boosted by a 49% rise ...
The need for a level playing field.
I work for a regional commercial brokerage, based in Manchester, and am constantly dealing with pers...
Aetna posts profit warning.
US health giant Aetna has warned that its first quarter earnings would be "significantly" lower than...
Claims Direct site compensates for advert.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Justice for all can be achieved.
Phil Bell was spot on in pinpointing the staggering and accelerating impact of the cost of claims fo...
Lifestyle choices.
Long hours, short lunch breaks and uncertainty caused by mergers and consolidation may lay behind the...
NU takes on CGU specialist property cover.
Norwich Union has dropped its specialist property owners' product in favour of CGU's and moved the C...
Trenwick flies in aid for London.
Bermudian insurance group Trenwick has lost the lead underwriter of its main Lloyd's syndicate. Davi...
Stuart Alexander aims for £30m.
Southampton-based broker Stuart Alexander plans to achieve a £30m premium income by the end of the y...
Show me the money.
The average salary of intermediaries and insurance company personnel is £33,000, with the majority ea...
Capitalising on the market.
Traditional methods of doing business in the London market are rapidly being replaced. To meet this ...