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Appointment at Darwin Rhodes.
Melanie Birch and Clare Phipps have joined Darwin Rhodes recruitment consultants. Ms Birch joins fro...
New risk service.
Aon Corporation is introducing a new risk transfer service which it claims will allow companies to s...
Direct Line in £50m 'Net drive.
Britain's biggest private motor insurer Direct Line today announced it is to pump £50m into the deve...
Internet virgins.
Virgin Direct and the Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers are both going online. Vir...
Clerical's top result.
Clerical Medical's mixed fund produced the best result during 1999 of all mixed funds in the market ...
... a risk manager.
In the second part of our new series, Anthony Gould spent a day with Graeme Lee, risk manager at logistics company Tibbett & Britten to find out what a risk manager gets up to ...
Brokers given the write stuff to compete.
A Lloyd's broker is arming high street brokers with tools to compete more effectively with direct wr...
Seeing danger in a vote winner.
As the government reflects on its first 1000-plus days in power, it is interesting to see that 50 ye...
Appointment at RP Hodson.
Richard Carter has been appointed marine manager by RP Hodson Broking Group. Mr Carter, who was prev...
Appointment at Gouldens.
Bronwen Charleson has joined the insurance department of city solicitors Gouldens. Previously she wa...
Pollution paper is finally passed.
The European Commission adopted the White Paper on Environmental Liability last week amid fears it w...
Time devotes 23 pages to Lloyd's 'swindle'.
The Lloyd's insurance market has received a mauling at the hands of American publishing powerhouse T...
RSA record figures.
Royal & Sun Alliance has posted record new business figures for 1999. Worldwide life and pensions ne...
Mortgage scandal arrests
It has been reported that two former managers of Guardian Royal Exchange have been arrested as part o...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL A couple's weekend break at a hotel ended with them spending seven hours in police cel...
The penny drops.
Premium finance in the UK is something of a best kept secret. John Burke discovers that although the market for this type of funding may be small, it is far from static.
IBM picks Siebel.
IBM has selected e-business specialist Siebel eBusiness Applications on a global basis. Siebel will ...
Global warming widely exaggerated.
Claims that global warming will melt polar ice caps resulting in the flooding of many parts of Brita...
Date for dinner.
The annual livery dinner of the Worshipful Company of Insurers will be held this year at the Mansion...
Halifax to launch insurance business next year
Halifax is to invest £150m in a new Internet-based business providing insurance for homeowners and mo...
Appointment at Axa Insurance.
Steve Phillips has left Norwich Union to become manager of Axa Insurance's Southampton branch....
Appointment at Financial Services Authority.
Vernon Everitt has been appointed head of media relations at the Financial Services Authority. He jo...
Bullying at work is rife.
This week saw the unveiling of UK's biggest ever study into bullying in the workplace, which results...
GISC team in EC talks.
Concerned General Insurance Standards Council representatives met European Commission chiefs last we...