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Penny Black's insurance week.
Those generous chaps at Independent Insurance held their annual broker beano for industry hacks last...
Exclusive - Torch company set to ignite outsourcing.
A new Chelmsford-based claims handling company aims to become a leading light in outsourcing. The...
Fraud case ends up in Lords.
An employer would only be vicariously liable for losses from a fraud in which an employee was involv...
Canada Life rate cut.
Canada Life is set to cut term rates by up to 21% from 8 March. The reductions in its class 1 term a...
Gan's new rates.
Gan has drawn up a new household rate guide after reviewing the 100 variables it uses to rate risks....
Lender v surveyor.
A mortgage lender which sued surveyors for negligently overvaluing property was found to be liable f...
IIB furore over merger vote.
The Institute of Insurance Brokers has reacted angrily to suggestions that its members should vote o...
Davox Ensemble.
Call centre solutions provider Davox is to launch its latest integrated call centre management softw...
Broker admits deceiving client.
The managing director of a West Midlands insurance broker used a client's money to reduce his compan...
AIRMIC 99 exhibitors.
We invited most exhibitors to provide details of their companies and stands. Here are the replies we received.
Survival instinct.
The insurance world of the 1990s has left loss adjusters as an endangered species. Andrew Westgate says the profession must go back to its roots to avoid extinction.
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Two of a kind.
Adrian Leonard finds both Lloyd's and the London company market going from strength to strength.
Sowing seeds of discontent.
Jeremy Rifkin introduces this month's Lunch Forum debate on the liability issues surrounding GM crops.
Making waves on the Internet.
Mark Birrell explains how Lloyd's underwriters set their sights on a virtual cargo market.
Lloyd's to Norway.
Lloyd's has been authorised to transact most classes of non-life business in Norway following the re...
US merger mania to spread.
Consolidation looks set to continue in the US reinsurance market as Bermudian insurance group XL Cap...
Reveal now or pay later.
John Butler focuses on the duty of disclosure and its impact on liability.
Greenberg promoted.
Jeffrey Greenberg (above) has been elected president and chief executive officer of broker Marsh & M...
IT networks' plans imminent.
The future of the three leading electronic insurance networks is expected to be revealed in the next...
Aon pushes share income higher.
Aon Corporation, the holding company that includes the world's second largest insurance broking oper...
First Lloyd's in Miami.
Bankside Services (Americas), the first underwriting service company to be set up by a Lloyd's agenc...
Dual-trigger policy from Tempest Re.
Bermudian catastrophe reinsurer Tempest Re has sold what it claims is the first reinsurance contract...
Millennium monitoring.
Larissa Knepper outlines the rating agency approach to insurers' Y2K exposures.