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Permanent hopes review will boost IFA business.
Permanent Insurance is carrying out a review of its critical illness products to boost its business ...
RSA takes high road.
Royal & Sun Alliance is set to go on the road to promote the launch of its small business centre, En...
L&G's plus points.
Legal & General has developed a new contribution calculator to help IFAs with their clients' pension...
Hextall Erskine receive Investor in People award.
Hextall Erskine's personal injury specialist and senior partner John Bundy and training partner Davi...
Brand awareness is the name of the game.
We all know that consumer perception about insurance companies is at an all-time low (PM 1 June, p21...
Grant goes to RSA.
Michael Grant, formerly operational manager for Direct Line Accident Management, has become managing...
Bill finally makes it.
The Financial Services & Markets Bill completed its passage through the House of Commons on Monday e...
Pension trees felled.
The FSA's document on stakeholder decision trees neglects some important issues and could lead to th...
Reg Brown on the move
Reg Brown, active underwriter of R E Brown Syndicate 702, is to hand over to his deputy, Andreas Louc...
Love's for Life.
Andrew Love MP, who chairs the All Party Building Society Group, has joined the fight to keep Standa...
Price hikes ahoy!
Top players in commercial insurance examine the causes of hardening rates, and the best way for insurers and insureds to respond. Adrian Leonard reports.
Cigna's London reinsurance arm to close: 24 jobs to go.
The London-based reinsurance arm of Cigna Corporation is set to close with the loss of 24 jobs. I...
Appointment at Anthony K Falcon.
Former Solicitors' Indemnity Fund executive Ian Anderson has joined specialist broker Anthony K Falc...
Appointment at Groupama.
David Gayton has been appointed as sales and distribution manager for Groupama Commercial Insurances...
Ask a silly question.
I read with interest the human resources article offering interview tips (PM 1 June, p34). Robert...
Insurers must admit past genetics errors.
Genetic testing remains one of the most sensitive issues for insurers and it appears they are not wi...
Appointment at Stevens Legal Costs Negotiators.
Stevens Legal Costs Negotiators has made three new appointments. Vikki Hind joins as office manager....
Don't pay credit hire claims'.
Insurers need not pay out on many credit hire claims, a solicitor said this week. "Unless you hav...
ABI to take tax row to Brown.
The insurance industry is stepping up the battle to prevent costly changes to the taxation of genera...
CGNU names top team.
CGNU has unveiled its senior broker management team. In the first of a series of bulletins to brok...
Website targets advisers.
A leading Internet intermediary aims to help independent financial advisers to compete more effectiv...
What the Papers Say.
THE BIRMINGHAM POST Bus drivers in Birmingham could soon be forced to undergo random drug tests a...
Axa lose travel deal on price.
French insurer Axa and broker CE Heath - now part of Heath Lambert - have lost travel insurance cont...
International tie-up coup for UK broker.
Birmingham commercial broker Perkins Slade has been chosen as the UK partner of Globex, the internat...