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Commentary - When stress reaches court.
Around 270,000 people take time off work each day because of work-related stress. After council work...
Y2K threat to reinsurers.
Reinsurers have built up threatening levels of Y2K exposure as a result of over-capacity in the mark...
Appointment at Forbes & Partners.
Two new partners have been appointed to the insurance litigation department of Forbes & Partners. Pa...
Appointment at Bond Pearce.
Law firm Bond Pearce has recruited Trevor Fox to its insurance group as a partner. Mr Fox joins from...
Record business.
Equitable Life, currently awaiting judgment in the guaranteed annuities case before Sir Richard Scot...
Eastgate defends bodyshop standard.
Accident management firm Eastgate Assistance this week defended its decision to introduce a new body...
Mutuals not a better deal.
Your editorial comment 'Dimming the mutual galaxy' (PM, 1 July, p15) strikes an unrealistic note. ...
Lloyd's on line.
Lloyd's has launched an on-line version of its IT procurement service, IT Direct, to make its servic...
Borrowers' cover.
GE Financial Insurance is to provide mortgage payment protection for Bradford & Bingley's 400,000 bo...
Heavy duty headaches.
The pressure on UK goods-in-transit insurers is growing and it won't be an easy job ensuring that business stays with domestic providers. Steve Banner explains.
Appointment at Irish Insurance Federation.
Martin Long has been made public relations officer for the Irish Insurance Federation. Previously he...
Homecare up for grabs.
Insurance services company the Miller Fisher Group has put its Surrey insurance subsidiary Homecare ...
Manchester-based Co-operative Insurance to sponsor.
Manchester-based Co-operative Insurance is to sponsor the Scottish League Cup (the CIS Insurance Cup...
Appointment at The Reid Cooper Partnership.
Glasgow solicitors The Reid Cooper Partnership has recruited Joy Geekie, who has particular experien...
Appointment at The Injury Care Clinics.
Norman Cottington has left Highway Motor Policies, where he was claims manager, to become managing d...
Motor prediction.
Motor insurance premiums will rise by 10% a year for the next few years, according to George Lowe, A...
Riskometer gets lukewarm welcome.
A new scale which maps how dangerous anything from vacuuming to deep sea fishing is, has been given ...
Syndicates safe from Unicover fallout': Lloyd's.
Lloyd's this week denied that the collapse of US company Unicover would impact syndicates. Unicov...
Allstate's $1bn buy.
US property and casualty insurer, Allstate, is to buy workmans' compensation insurer American Herita...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny has a magical tale to recount this week. Scottish Provident's head of marketing and business d...
Defiant Clinton vows to veto healthcare Bill.
President Clinton has attacked Republican party senators for being beholden to the health insurance ...
Motor Heritage Centre conference day.
Over 200 delegates gathered at the Motor Heritage Centre in Warwickshire for a one-day conference ca...
Malaysia's central bank gives opportunities.
Malaysia's central bank said this week it will give business opportunities to insurance companies wh...
What the Papers Say.
BIRMINGHAM POST A rampaging bull caused chaos when it broke into a businessman's 17th century hou...