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10-year tail to HSBC tale.
Why all the fuss about Midland Bank' admission that it sometimes pays outrageous claims in its pursu...
Scottish Widows stands fast.
Scottish Widows has defended its decision to demutualise after accepting a £7bn offer from banking g...
Managing ART.
Dan Malloy, chief executive of Stockton Re talks to Richard Willsher about capital, swaps, Crowe Insurance Group and the meaning of ART.
Appointment at Norman Insurance.
Jane Coppard has been appointed household manager, underwriting, at Norman Insurance. Ms Coppard pre...
Irish up premiums.
Irish state-owned health insurer VHI is to hike premiums from September, although the size of the in...
Mardi Gras gay festival.
To coincide with this weekend's Mardi Gras gay festival, legal expenses insurer Victory Legal is lau...
Double benefit of motor database.
In Guest Comment (PM, 10 June, p19), Lorraine Wright links the Fourth Directive with the intended mo...
La Playa in harmony with music industry.
A new broker specialising in risk management consultancy for the music industry hopes to strike the ...
Rarebit of good news.
A host of initiatives in areas such as skills training and transport are being introduced to boost the North Wales economy. David Fanning reports.
Arnott's new jobs.
Sixty new jobs are to be created following Arnott Group Holding's acquisition of Manchester-based Ci...
£22.5bn Y2K estimate.
Technical problems caused by the Millennium Bug could leave insurers facing claims of up to £22.5bn ...
Centor rises from ashes.
Christchurch Insurance Services has rebranded itself ahead of a major push into the independent fina...
Lifelong Learning award.
Lyn Russell and Karen Watson of Birstall Insurance Services received a Lifelong Learning award at th...
Fire gutted Beefeater restaurant.
Last orders have been called at Long Reach in Whitstable after a fire gutted the Beefeater restauran...
Warning to clean up the roads.
Secondhand car dealers and unscrupulous salvage companies have been slammed for selling insurance li...
Evolution not revolution.
Mary Francis, the newly-appointed director general of the ABI, talks to David Worsfold about how she plans to extend the association's influence.
Hill House Hammond.
Hill House Hammond gave Chris Brown from Bedfordshire a double birthday present last week. Discoveri...
Merger smoothing.
Legal expenses insurer Das has been appointed to 'harmonise' insurer CGU's legal expenses facilities...
GISC meeting to decide on remit.
The General Insurance Standards Council board meets next Thursday to decide on its regulatory remit....
Skandia pushes cross-selling.
NIG Skandia has launched a new scheme to help brokers wrestle home insurance business from mortgage ...
Insurance industry is clamping down.
The insurance industry is clamping down on dishonest travellers this summer in an effort to reduce b...
Crossing the gulf between risk managers.
I read with interest 'Staying on Track (PM supplement, 17 June, p12). I am pleased to see there i...
The Domino effect.
Lotus Domino claims to have cut the time it takes between a customer making a claim and receiving pa...
Anti-crime site.
A website dedicated to fighting crime will be launched at the Home Office next week as part of a par...