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PI forum from AIFA.
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has taken its first step to address the problems o...
Appointment at Ocaso SA.
Spanish insurance company Ocaso SA has recruited Ray Nichols as business producer. Mr Nichols will b...
Broker smells cash in country air.
A leading insurance broker has struck a deal with Country Life magazine to sell high net worth insur...
Appointment at International SOS.
Francesca Paulden has been appointed as corporate business development manager with medical assistan...
Appointment at Ace Europe.
Ace Europe has appointed Greg Lunn as legal counsel for Ace Europe and Ace Global Markets. Prior to ...
John & Others v Express Newspapers Court of Appeal.
19 April 2000 The Court of Appeal ruled a judge was wrong to have granted an order for disclosure...
Commentary - Defamation by dotcom.
At the same time that the 'Love bug' was causing chaos in computer systems across the world, courts ...
Amlin ambles to £18.3m
Lloyd's underwriter Amlin saw pre-tax profits rise to £18.3m last year, only marginally up from £18m ...
What the Papers Say.
Daily Express A saleswoman made to wear a sumo wrestling costume to conform to her company's 'tea...
Towergate Underwriting Group.
Towergate Underwriting Group has made its first acquisition following two major appointments. It was...
A question of strategy.
Small and medium-sized businesses face different dilemmas in creating a risk strategy. David Fanning finds out why.
Dimond will not affect credit hire firms' spoils.
I write with regard to the House of Lords decision on the Dimond v Lovell credit hire case (PM 11 Ma...
Swiss Re profits up.
Swiss Re recorded a 12% increase in net profits to £1bn in 1999, despite a devastating year for cata...
AIRMIC lands in Brum.
It's all change for the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers' this year - it has switched both the month and location for its annual conference. Here's what's in store.
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Mark Stephenson, who joined Independent in 1995 as senior sales assistant, has been appointed city s...
Hewes quits Lloyd's.
Bob Hewes, the Corporation of Lloyd's finance director since 1994, is to leave the company....
Appointment at Aspen.
Actuaries and pensions consultancy Aspen has appointed Jeremy Walker as information technology manag...
Appointment at Permanent Insurance.
Phil Calvert has taken on the newly-created role of head of national accounts at Permanent Insurance...
Commitments figures set to bring the blues to insurers.
Insurance staff have so little commitment to their companies that over a third would leave for a sli...
A meeting of minds.
Mark Butterworth, chairman of the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers, and John Ball, above right, president of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, came face to face to compare their organisations.
Case that shames FSA.
Tough market conditions in the personal lines motor sector have finally bought us a major casualty -...
Hurley to retire.
Liverpool Victoria's deputy chairman Roy Hurley (left) is to retire after 42 years in the financial ...
£165m for CGU.
Insurer CGU, which will merge with Norwich Union at the end of the month, has recorded a rise in gen...
Insurers' relief at Dimond ruling.
The insurance industry received a filip last week following the House of Lords ruling in the Dimond ...