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Limit buys Torch for £10m.
Lloyd's-listed Limit is to acquire Torch, the Lloyd's motor group, for £10m. The move, announced ...
Appointment at Axa Insurance.
Lisa Walden has been made broker communication manager for Axa Insurance. She joins Axa from Maritz ...
Folgate joins panel.
Folgate Insurance will join HSBC Select's extended panel of household insurers, bringing its full cy...
Bigger picture of adjusting.
The loss adjusting sector, along with the rest of the insurance industry, is undergoing rapid change...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Imagine Penny's surprise when a routine question to Saracens Rugby Club about sports insurance was a...
New Year shutdown? It's business as usual.
Your article 'New Year Shutdown' (PM 4 Nov, p8) stated claims processing in the London market will c...
Hands up who's happy.
David Fanning gets mixed views when he asks personal lines brokers if they are satisfied with insurers, discovering that the recent merger-mania has had a less-than-desirable effect on their business relationships.
Holocaust hearings.
California's Department of Insurance is to hold hearings at the start of December to investigate for...
Appointment at Iron Trades.
Tony Sherman has been promoted to finance director at Iron Trades. He joined the company in 1996 as ...
Millennium Conference of LIA.
International sprinter and gold medal winner Kris Akabusi will share the secrets of his success as a...
Website fires up.
Disaster recovery specialist for documents and books, Hardwell Drying and Restoration Services, has ...
End of the roadshow for the GISC.
The General Insurance Standards Council wound up its series of roadshows to promote its second consu...
Appointment at The Recruitment Works.
A new recruitment consultancy for the insurance and financial services sector has opened in Scotland...
Broking plonk-ers.
The run-up to the millennium will be just luvvly bubbly for brokers submitting high volume premium f...
Shock as industry big guns quit.
The insurance sector has seen two shock resignations in the past week. Lloyd Hanks, managing dire...
Appointment at RJ Wallace Syndicates.
Bill Dyson has joined RJ Wallace Syndicates as professional indemnity underwriter. Previously he was...
The running man.
GAB Robins director Robert Binning put his athletic feet forward when he competed in the Dublin mara...
Insurer CGU renames in India.
Insurer CGU has renamed Commercial Union and General Accident to CGU Life Insurance and CGU General ...
Swiss Re's Internet exchange
Reinsurer Swiss Re has launched the Electronic Risk Exchange (ELRiX) which allows for standardised ri...
Building the links against fraud.
For years the public saw insurers as fair game for fraud. But now the realisation that fraud equals inflated premiums has changed their attitudes. Jonathan Swift finds out how insurers are closing the net on the conmen.
Wind and fire cut CGU profits.
Several heavy claims severely dented CGU's third quarter profits. The insurer said two of the wors...
All change.
Post Magazine's first survey of UK loss adjusters shows that many feel strongly about retaining thei...
Millennium Motor Spares signs up.
Millennium Motor Spares has signed up to eSalvage, an Internet-based service set up by Glass Informa...
Reliance shuts doors under pensions pressure
Reliance Mutual Insurance has closed to new business, blaming the cost of compensating victims of per...