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Royal & Sun Alliance deal.
Royal & Sun Alliance has signed a deal with national retailers Dixons, Signet and Halfords to provid...
V can be victory for financing.
Insurance intermediary BDML Connect is urging firms to re-think finance deals to tie in with twice-y...
Appointment at Financial Telemarketing Services.
Martin Shields, one of the founder members of the call centre industry in the UK, has joined Boreham...
Insurers dismiss LTC proposals.
The industry was still seeking guidance in the long-term care market as proposals that care costs be...
CIN-ners join Aon.
Brokers Aon Risk Services has acquired claims software provider Claims Information Network from the ...
Appointment at Commerce nti.
Sacha Gregoriou has been made marketing assistant by Commerce nti. She joins Commerce nti from manag...
A new way forward.
In light of the much discussed skills shortage in the insurance industry, Post Magazine and recruitment consultants Joslin Rowe conducted a survey of insurance human resources managers to find out what is being done to combat the problem.
CCS gets on panel.
Loss Recovery Insurance has appointed CCS Global Claims Consultants and Loss Adjusters to its panel ...
Time squeeze on claims.
New procedures for debt recovery claims inadvertently apply to complex multi-party reinsurance dispu...
NU's bargain web deal.
Insurance intermediaries can now untangle the mystery of the Web thanks to Norwich Union. The ins...
Appointment at PeopleDoc.
PeopleDoc has made Benny Placido vice-president of sales, and Gareth Hobson sales manager. Mr Placid...
All cost, no benefit?
The Woolf reforms imposed extra costs on professional indemnity insurers but Simon Chandler argues that imaginative use of the new rules can bring immediate financial benefits, as a recent case illustrates.
St Paul opens risk centre.
St Paul International Insurance has formed a Risk Management Resource Centre at its headquarters in ...
Should I stay or should I go?
As salaries rise and law firms lose whole teams, Alex Broad finds out what makes solicitors abandon ship more often now than ever before.
Euclidian in £29m management buyout.
Consolidation in the Lloyd's insurance market continued apace with the news of a management buy-out ...
Lutine Trophy Race.
The St Paul team is one of 23 competing in the Lutine Trophy Race, which sets off today from Great Y...
Insurers fail to pass the staff test.
An industry is only as good as the people that work in it and, by inference, as those that are attra...
Cruise liner collision.
The London insurance market looks set for at least a £30m bill following the collision between two v...
Woolf Reforms pushing up costs.
Far from reducing the cost of litigation as intended, the Woolf reforms are costing insurers more, a...
Appointment at Munters.
Damage restoration company Munters has promoted Denice Honour from a marketing executive to customer...
The task of Porro.
Swiss Re's head of risk and reinsurance, Bruno Porro, talks to Adrian Leonard about the group's approach to the new set of problems facing reinsurers.
On firmer ground.
Although the traditional reinsurance market in the US is still soft in some sectors, John McLaughlin detects the first signs that rates are hardening.
Looking forward, looking back.
Will the reinsurance industry undergo as many changes in the next decade as it did in the last? Janina Clark asked some of the market's key players to predict what is in store for the next millennium...
Trend spotting.
Convergence with the capital markets will join the current reinsurance trends of globalisation and the 'flight to quality' in the next decade, predicts Donald Watson, director of Standard & Poor's in New York.