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Health and Safety Executive investigates call centres.
The Health and Safety Executive is to investigate working practices in call centres. The research, w...
Parents lose damages case over baby's 'wrongful birth'.
The House of Lords has saved insurers and the public purse millions in potential pay-outs for 'wrong...
Falmouth inferno.
Loss adjuster PCS was called out to a blaze in the seaside resort of Falmouth, Cornwall, last week. ...
Rehab Code will thrive on debate.
Next week we will publish a list of the insurers, solicitors, brokers and service providers that hav...
Appointment at Winterthur Life.
Winterthur Life has appointed three new business development managers to its professional advisers d...
Screentrade boost.
Screentrade, the comparative Internet service operated by Misys and Shaw Insurance Brokers, has trip...
GISC must get its head out of the sand.
The plethora of recriminations about the General Insurance Standards Council's proposals for self-re...
ABI ready for Y2K.
The Association of British Insurers has said it does not expect to see any interruption in insurers'...
Budget heading for high street?
Former direct insurer Budget Insurance could become a high street brand. The Peterborough-based c...
Merger called off.
The planned merger between German mutuals Parion and Alte Leipziger has been called off. Both sides ...
Mutual plan ditched.
The Baltic Exchange has abandoned plans to change its status to a mutual following substantial cash ...
Winner.
Mervyn Gibbs is the second winner in the Avon Insurance Combination Football competition. The sen...
Goshawk pays up.
Lloyd's insurer Goshawk has provided the required funds of £70.2m to Lloyd's to support its underwri...
Sales of £800m.
Standard Life Investments has posted first year figures which show UK sales of £800m. In its first y...
Top Tory's damning verdict on regulator.
Shadow Chancellor Francis Maude has attacked the widespread scope of powers of new super-regulator t...
Joint experts could send fire case costs soaring.
A law firm partner has warned that the use of joint experts in the new Woolf era could lead to an es...
Axa out to be Northern Ireland's no 1.
Axa aims to become the number one player in Northern Ireland. In the week that has witnessed momen...
Equitable's appeal.
The Equitable Life Action Group began its appeal on Tuesday against the High Court decision that the...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY EXPRESS Everton footballer Slaven Bilic looks like ending his career with a multi-million i...
Warranties looking up.
The extended warranty market is picking up again, though the less well-off are still vulnerable to s...
Appointment at Knights Commercial Insurances.
Former Willis Corroon employee Graham Wedgbury has started up his own insurance brokerage, called Kn...
Insurer game to pay £1m prize to puzzle solver.
A Lloyd's insurer could be set to do what Chris Tarrant has so far failed to do - pay out a million ...
Exclusive - Insurers losing clients through poor profiling.
Few insurers are satisfactorily retaining customers, according to a new survey by European IT servic...
Exclusive - St Paul in bid to convert medical sector.
An insurer is planning a major push into the medical liability market just as the Medical Defence Un...