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Bank accused of unfairness over loan terms.
The Director General of Fair Trading applied to the High Court for an injunction to restrain the use...
Highway shows the way to expansion for Ockham.
Further signs that the motor insurance market is back on the road to profitability has been highligh...
Arsonists strike every six minutes.
Arsonists are now striking every six minutes. Figures taken from the Home Office statistical bulleti...
Appointment at Vizard Oldham.
John Lackington has been made a partner with Vizards Oldham to deal exclusively with professional in...
A case of cause and effect.
Legal & General appears to be guilty of a grave miscalculation in its attempt to slide in underneath...
Exclusive - Broker slams IIB over symbol.
A past president of an insurance institute has threatened legal action against the Institute of Insu...
Next step poser for Prosser.
Legal & General's chief executive David Prosser could be the biggest loser if, as seems likely, Nat ...
PIA suspends firm.
The Personal Investment Authority has announced it has suspended the investment business of Willis F...
Tobacco firms hit with multi-million lawsuit.
Tobacco firms and their insurers were left gasping when the US government filed a multi-million doll...
Prepare to be there.
As Europe looms large on political agendas, Denys Rivard explains what insurers will need to do in t...
Donns secures contract.
Manchester-based law firm Donns has secured a £2.7m contract to handle motor insurance claims from W...
Hill House Hammond promotes marine products.
Hill House Hammond moved the Eiffel Tower to the south coast to promote its range of marine products...
Training project.
Arnott-Century has introduced a six-month training programme for its 480 sales staff which will begi...
Exclusive - Lloyd's forms panels to handle Bug claims.
Lloyd's is drawing up five legal panels to handle any lucrative work connected with claims stemming ...
Eureko vaults Axa in Pole competition.
Eureko, the Netherlands-based alliance of seven European insurers, has been offered the chance to ta...
Turnbull welcomed.
The insurance industry this week welcomed the publication of the Turnbull report on corporate govern...
£2.5bn settlement.
The makers of the controversial diet drug 'fen-phen', American Home Products, has filed a memorandum...
Wake of Hurricane Floyd.
One Bahama's resident returned to find a beached yacht in her backyard in the wake of Hurricane Floy...
French enter fight for Italian insurer.
The battle for Italian insurer Istituto Nazionale Delle Assicurazione took another turn last week wh...
Private patients.
One-in-seven operations for patients in England and Wales during 1997-8 were carried out in private ...
Trade bodies stand up for 'campaigning' judges.
The two trade associations for personal injury solicitors have signed a joint statement aiming to pr...
German firms to spend more on IT.
The German financial services marketplace will be spending a total of $13bn (£8bn) annually on IT by...
Hurricane Floyd to cost insurers $1.3bn
US property/casualty insurers will face a bill of $1.3bn for property damage caused by Hurricane Floy...
CGU replaces Tony Cornell
Insurance giant CGU has appointed John Bissell to replace Tony Cornell as head of broker relations. M...