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Zurich restructures general arm.
Recent director-level changes at Zurich Financial Services are part of a wider restructuring of its ...
Government drives in.
The drivers' database being developed by the Motor Insurers Information Centre has won government ba...
Cigna's earnings show a 4% drop.
US health insurer Cigna saw its fourth-quarter operating earnings fall almost 4%, but the results we...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Oh, some of the egos in the insurance world. What's a poor girl like Penny to believe when a source ...
Taxi recovery.
Preston-based Catterall Insurance Services has said it will step in and provide cover for taxi and p...
MP lashes out on polarisation.
A senior backbench MP has lashed out over proposals to relax the polarisation regime for retail fina...
Signing up for travel.
Devitt Insurance Services has signed up travel operator Mark Warner for its Carapace cover. The brok...
Mortgage move.
Zurich Personal Insurances is to attack the 40% share of the UK home and buildings insurance market ...
ABI man in dock.
MPs are set to investigate the Association of British Insurers' genetic adviser Professor Raeburn, a...
Modernisation unveiled for London market.
Detailed proposals for the modernisation of the London Market were unveiled this week in the latest ...
GISC: broker fears spark OFT letter.
As a principle, Post Magazine will not publish anonymous letters. However, this week, we break with ...
Innovation Group snaps up Holbert.
Insurance software specialist The Innovation Group has acquired software solution provider Holbert f...
Rich pickings?
The demise of the Solicitors' Indemnity Fund forced solicitors to run for cover. And while the more selective insurers look to benefit from the new regime, many legal firms are left to sink or swim in the Assigned Risks Pool, says David Fanning.
No win, no fee backlash.
Independent Insurance and Ockham Holdings both blamed no win, no fee claims companies, such as Claim...
Rising claims calls for rehab.
The rise in personal injury liability claims is now beginning to show through in insurer's financial...
Competition winner.
The winner of our athletics tickets giveaway, in association with Norwich Union, is Neil Smith, assi...
Clean-up your act.
Local authorities have been praised for the way they dealt with the recent floods. However, new government initiatives could land them with increased responsibility for environmental issues, says Jane Bernstein.
Taking the strain.
Work-related stress claims are climbing and although few claimants win such cases at the moment, insurers are taking the threat seriously and argue that employers should too, says Jane Bernstein.
20,000 back-dated pension workers lose out.
Up to a third of the 60,000 part-time workers, who won the right to backdated pensions from 1976 in ...
Moneynet expands into motor market.
Personal finance site moneynet.co.uk has expanded its portfolio of products with the introduction of...
Suspect claims are under fire.
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Avon denies it is leaving pitch.
Avon Insurance has denied suggestions it is set to exit the football insurance market next season, d...
Scor joins new reinsurance exchange
French reinsurer Scor has signed up to Inreon, the independent, internet-based reinsurance exchange f...
Pensions by post.
Over-the-counter pension contributions will be possible at the Post Office from 1 April, after it si...