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Appointment at Brit Insurance.
Ken Culley has been appointed as a non-executive director of Brit Insurance. He joins from the Portm...
Appointment at Marks & Spencer Financial Services.
Barrie Wells has been made non-executive director of M&S Financial Services. He was previously manag...
Win your own match of the day.
Post Magazine, in conjunction with Avon Insurance, is offering another opportunity to win tickets fo...
UK brands are to stay.
Australian insurer AMP has denied any of its UK brands will disappear as it strives to eliminate dup...
Cyber-stakeholder.
Legal & General has welcomed the government's decision to allow online applications for stakeholder ...
Farmers must embrace risk solutions to earn lower premiums.
Lower premiums for farmers are available but only if they adopt successful risk management solutions...
IBA expansion to focus on quality not quantity.
The International Brokers Association has outlined plans for steady growth as it steps up its campai...
Equitas leads.
Lloyd's run-off company Equitas, which was established to reinsure the pre-1992 liabilities of Names...
Exclusive - Brands hatches range for AIIB.
Marketing firm Broker Brands has launched a range of products in conjunction with the Association of...
Rapid by name and by nature.
A new virtual insurer was launched this week boasting the "fastest way to buy insurance online". ...
Chips are down for pet insurers.
Insurers have been put on alert following reports that pet passport chips are not as foolproof as ha...
Headquarters in Edinburgh for new merger.
The £90bn combined asset management business resulting from Scottish Widows' merger with Lloyds TSB ...
L&G's £413m.
Legal & General's operating profit grew 12% to £413m in 1999. UK new premium income exceeded £500m f...
Act fails to ruffle insurers.
The insurance industry is taking a relaxed approach to the new Data Protection Act (1998), which cam...
Changing times.
The fundamental re-shaping of the insurance industry and the huge commitment it is making to new tec...
A lot of Zlotys.
Poland's largest insurer Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen saw gross premiums rise to from 6bn Zlotys to...
Suing hamburger chain.
A couple who claim they were assaulted by staff at a McDonald's restaurant following a complaint abo...
Don't ignore value of adjusters.
Ken Little of Total Services ('CILA Under Fire Over Networks', PM 17 February, p8) is concerned abou...
RSA down but determined to stick it out alone
Royal & Sun Alliance chief executive Bob Mendelsohn has insisted that the company is not looking for ...
Royal wins UA race.
Britannic Assurance has effectively pulled out of the race for United Assurance, leaving it to compl...
Judges could prompt PHI rethink.
Private health insurance could receive a boost following the pivotal Court of Appeal personal injury...
Allstate to pay £9m.
A US court has ruled that Allstate Life must pay out £9m ($15m) on a policy after an accountant who ...
Adjusting its name.
Sutton Coldfield-based adjusters Applied Technology Adjusting this week changed its name to Engineer...
Motor sector giants accused of illegal deductions.
Texas Attorney General John Cornyn has filed lawsuits against 16 motor insurers alleging they have u...