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Insurers must have answers ready.
Social and financial exclusion is set to hit the headlines in the next few months as the Treasury pr...
Cyber warning.
An early warning computer crime prevention system - Micro Spy - claims it can detect potential compu...
Boom in legal cover.
Demand for legal expenses cover has grown dramatically since the present government came to power, a...
US/Japan venture.
American International Group KK, the Japanese arm of US insurer AIG, and Orix, a Japanese leasing co...
Shropshire partners fight off big name.
The management of a Shropshire broker has beaten off stiff competition from a 'major high street ins...
Hub plans US drive.
Toronto broker the Hub Group is looking to expand from Canada into the US via acquisition. Hub, esta...
Axa wants to get a life.
Axa is stepping up its bid to buy a life office following a spate of mergers. Nat West's audaciou...
Lumacare chosen.
The Accidentcare Group insurer services division Lumacare is set to benefit from the new Association...
Rent-a-Car auto trade football tournament.
Trinity Insurance Brokers lost out to the Polar Ford Car dealership in a fiercely fought local derby...
Appointment at Munters.
Denice Honour has been promoted by Munters from marketing executive to customer relations manager....
Good and bad news for Zurich.
Zurich Financial Services has posted mixed results for the first half of 1999. The Zurich-based g...
Crash payout cut.
A $7bn (£4bn) award against vehicle manufacturer General Motors has been reduced to $1.2bn (£700m). ...
Burglar's eyeview.
The Millennium Mapping Company claims its airborne photographic study of the UK will help risk asses...
Appointment at Jardine Lloyd Thompson.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Corporate Risks has appointed Alan Percival as its regional managing director...
Insurers insist they're safe from the hackers.
The insurance industry this week moved to affirm the integrity of its e-commerce security systems fo...
Sand's UK launch.
Software company Sand Technology Systems has launched Nucleus, a data warehousing system for the ins...
New editor for Post.
The new editor of Post Magazine is Anthony Gould. He has been deputy editor since January and was fo...
Ford Loft sold.
Layton Blackham has acquired the Chelmsford-based broker the Ford Loft Group, which will continue to...
Taking the fight to the fraudsters - Fraud update.
Bookings are rolling in for Post Magazine's Insurance Fraud Update on 14 October. This aims to br...
Life in the slow lane.
The life insurance sector is languishing in implementing e-commerce solutions. So states a report ca...
Appointment at Axa.
Amanda Fisher has been made regional development director for Axa's north region. She joins the comp...
Body of evidence.
The second UK Bodily Injury Survey, which looks at claims trends and the causes behind them, is out ...
Protocol the Putsmans way.
West Midlands-based law firm Putsmans has set up a new set of protocol services to help insurers mee...
Brands.
Fifty years ago, the thorny question of how to promote individual insurance company brands and the i...