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Best in fight with Standard Life Healthcare.
Standard Life Healthcare is the insurer in dispute with soccer legend George Best over payment for h...
Davies stays as FSA head.
Howard Davies has won his battle and will remain both chairman and chief executive of the Financial ...
Brokers unable to use Internet.
Paul Roberts, sales director of the Broker Network, speaking at last week's British Insurance Broker...
DVD shortlists.
This new candidate shortlisting service could be just the answer for time-pressured managers. But is this the end of face-to-face interviews?
SLFC settlements.
Sun Life Financial of Canada has concluded two significant settlements in the Unicover matter - grea...
No life in e-selling.
Life companies are still failing to embrace the Internet three years after a majority claimed they h...
Local underwriting for local brokers.
Allianz Cornhill is to set up a network of local commercial underwriting teams for brokers. Based...
Running towards standing alone.
Developing both the Lloyd's Claims Office and the Lloyd's Policy Signing Office as stand-alone entit...
Embrace change says professor.
Guest speaker, psychology professor Anthony Clare, encouraged brokers to embrace change. He said it ...
Appointment at Eversheds.
Barrister Nicola Darvill has joined the Ipswich-based litigation department of business law firm Eve...
Exclusive - Burke Ford and JLT in merger talks.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson and large provincial broker Burke Ford are believed to be in advance talks fo...
Towergate notches up two more acquisitions.
The rush for growth at Towergate underwriting agency continues apace, with the group due to announce...
M&S backs GISC and unveils launch.
Retail giant Marks & Spencer is the first insurance provider to officially commit itself to the Gene...
Appointment at dotRisk.
Robert Forness has been appointed executive vice-president and chief operating officer of dotRisk, a...
Appointment at RP Hodson.
Jim Duffy has taken up the new position of operations director at RP Hodson. Mr Duffy, who joins aft...
RSA's try-umph.
Victories don't come much more emphatic than Royal & Sun Alliance's trouncing of Skandia in the fina...
Cross-border launch.
Sovereign Risk Insurance, the Bermuda-based political risk insurance joint venture involving Ace and...
Ratings review.
Martin Hindley from ratings agency Standards & Poors details changes to company ratings. French r...
RSA signs non-life deal.
Global insurer Royal & Sun Alliance and Sundaram Finance of India last week agreed to form a non-lif...
Appointment at QBE International Insurance.
David Eynon, Jill Stewart and Chris Fletton have joined QBE's speciality team. QBE is also setting u...
EC nod for CGNU.
The European Commission has given clearance for the proposed merger between giant UK insurance compa...
Appointment at Indigo Selection.
Royston Betts has joined the insurance team at recruitment consultancy Indigo Selection. He will be ...
Success for insur-E.
Insurance quotation engine and policy processing system insur-E.connect, which provides intermediari...
Brains not brawn pledge.
The General Insurance Standards Council's chief executive Chris Woodburn denied it would act as a "m...