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Whitley v Phillip Morris & R J Reynolds, Los Angeles.
27 March 2000 An ex-smoker was awarded £12m by a Californian jury despite the presence of health ...
Date for broker title.
A chartered insurance broker title for individuals should be available by the end of the year for Fe...
Accidents or damage to vehicles cost nearly £1m a week.
Compensation to drivers, cyclists and pedestrians for accidents or damage to vehicles caused by poor...
dot.com pensions.
A new London-based company Quote-master.com has launched an Internet service which enables companies...
Caring via the Net.
Investment managers will soon be able to do their bit for the environment using new Internet softwar...
Heritage goes round the houses.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
If people take less and less responsibility for their actions we can only expect premiums to go up a...
Appointment at Kiln.
Edward Creasy has been made director of underwriting at Kiln. He joined RJ Kiln & Co as managing dir...
Appointment at DAS Legal Expenses.
DAS Legal Expenses has made two new appointments. Lyndon Willshire has been made corporate business ...
Commentary - Claims try the patience of NHS.
Optimism in the NHS following the Budget has been spoilt by revelations that clinical negligence cla...
ZIFA to double mortgage network.
Zurich Independent Financial Adviser Group aims to double its mortgage network by the end of the sum...
Keeping track of the rules.
Veronica Cowan reports how new regulations have put added pressures on the already difficult employers' liability market.
Kidnappings on the increase
Kidnappings for ransom reached record numbers last year with Latin America still the worst region acc...
Country and western.
Eric Alexander discovers how the UK and US political risks market is coping with turbulent times in other parts of the world.
Appointment at Equifax.
Chris Cawthorn has been made senior vice-president and European knowledge engineering director for E...
Standard Life plays it cool as carpetbaggers regroup.
Standard Life has adopted a wait and see approach to the news that carpetbaggers are to lodge a revi...
Burn your budgets.
The Inspiration Group, which includes Prudential, Aon and HSBC, has been warned that agility, hunger...
Stress tops poll.
Stress at work is the number one concern of local authority risk managers, according to a new survey...
Munich Re to go on spending spree.
The news that giant German reinsurer Munich Re plans acquisitions in all of its key business areas w...
Claimants are ruining standards.
I read Grahame Weatherley's letter (PM 6 April p16) with great interest and feel it raised a wider i...
Texas care decision.
US health insurance company Aetna is to allow the state of Texas to regulate its managed care operat...
AIFA happy to become host.
Members of IFA Association Critical Illness Working Party have unanimously accepted the Association ...
Time to go.
David Bland, director general of the Chartered Insurance Institute for over a decade, explains to David Worsfold why the time is right for him to step down.
JLT decides to risk solutions.
International broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has lured a senior team on board to set up a new practic...