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Appointment at Haywra Selection.
Heather Swainston has been made a consultant with insurance industry recruitment firm Haywra Selecti...
Exclusive car insurance from Lloyd's of London.
Lloyd's of London hopes to race to success this season after offering exclusive car insurance to own...
Youell v Kara Mara Shipping Co, World Tanker Carriers Corp. & Others
A bulk carrier and a motor tanker collided off the Portuguese coast in December 1994. The bulk ca...
Appointment at Watson Wyatt.
Mike Shelley has joined the insurance team of Watson Wyatt as a senior consultant. He will be based ...
QBE boots out Limit merger.
Lloyd's insurer Limit's £1.3bn merger with Wellington is in ruins this week following an unsolicited...
Quids in for those left out.
The government wants stakeholder pensions to appeal to the great unpensioned masses. Keith Sankey outlines the theory and asks if it will work in practice.
Right on CUE.
Veronica Cowan found some sensitivity about the 'F' word when trying to discover what brokers and loss adjusters are doing about fraud.
Appointment at Misys Interactive Trading.
Misys has made several appointments. Nick Caplan joins from California-based Walker Financial Soluti...
Canada Life bond.
Canada Life has unveiled a new income bond, The Platinum Income Bond, to IFAs. The bond is being iss...
Minimum pension age to rise.
Life insurers and industry commentators have given a mixed response to the government's plans to enc...
Appointment at Joslin Rowe.
Alison Kirkpatrick has been appointed as a consultant in the insurance division of Joslin Rowe. Befo...
Appointment at Munters.
Lawra While has been made a marketing executive with property damage restoration firm Munters. Previ...
Appointment at NMG.
Financial consulting group NMG has recruited two new management consultants. Chris Hubbard joins ...
The rocky road to loyalty.
Can the motor market turn the corner? Of course it can, but there will be casualties left behind. Th...
Risk management into the 21st century - 25 May, London.
The challenges facing the modern risk manager are huge. Risks are becoming more complex and, as the ...
The sky's the limit.
Premium rates for motor fleets have experienced a huge turnaround. The market has swung from under-capacity to over-capacity and rates are still rising as Simon Threadgold discovers.
Banks benefit in India.
The liberalisation of India's previously state-monopolised insurance sector made another small step ...
Appointment at Mondial Assistance.
Mondial Assistance has appointed two new business development managers to its corporate and financia...
London market phases reforms.
The introduction of a single, unified system of placing and claims procedures for the London market ...
Appointment at Universal Salvage.
Anne Thomas has joined Universal Salvage as company secretary. Prior to this, she held a similar rol...
Amey solves IT.
A new outsourcing company, Amey IT Services, has been launched to provide businesses with IT infrast...
Policy has rights.
Insurance software provider Policy Master has secured the rights to distribute the Polaris ProductWr...
Industry lacks loyalty.
We are all aware of the losses that have bedevilled general insurance over the last few years and mo...
GE makes Alliance.
GE Financial Services has secured a five year deal with Alliance & Leicester to provide payment prot...