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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...
Farmers targeted in move to head off fraud
A leading agricultural underwriter has acted to head off the threat of fraud or reduced insurance cov...
Disability Act ignorance exposed
Brokers and independent financial advisers should raise the issue of disability management with their...
Moody's warns of corporate capital exodus from Lloyd's
Poor results could lead corporate investors to withdraw from the Lloyd's market according to rating a...
Jobs to go as Sun Life of Canada embraces the Internet
Sun Life of Canada is to make 500 of its 1600 UK staff redundant following a strategic review of the ...
Abbey National denies bid for Legal & General
Abbey National has denied rumours circulating at the weekend that it plans to bid for life and pensio...
Legal & General/Nat West tie up threatened by new offer
The £10bn take over of insurer Legal and General by banking group Nat West has been thrown into turmo...
Boxing hit by landmark liability blow
British boxer Michael Watson has won a landmark court case. It is believed to be the first time that ...
AMP to acquire GIO
Exit mechanism proposed for GIO shareholders
New recruit for Broker Alliance.
The Broker Alliance, a partnership of Yorkshire-based insurance and financial services brokers forme...
Lloyd's takes Bull by the horns in £26m IT first.
Integris, the managed services division of Bull Information Systems, has won a £26m contract from Ll...
Treasury support.
The government has backed the new trade body for business continuity and damage restoration companie...