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Free food off the menu at Eagle Star.
Staff and union representatives at Eagle Star are boiling over after the Zurich management team reve...
FMW tries to plug losses.
Essex-based broker FMW has teamed up with marine specialist Merricks solicitors in a bid to prevent ...
Rhine Re latest member of IUA of London.
US-owned Rhine Re is the latest member of the International Underwriting Associaton of London. The c...
Stopping the fire-starters.
A Tyneside fire prevention initiative has quashed an arson epidemic sweeping through the west end of...
New motor unit.
A trio of former Gan board members have teamed up with an American businessman to buy private motor ...
Court in the act.
A leading law firm invited claims handlers into the public gallery at Nottingham County Court to wat...
Shareholders: friend or foe?
Insurance industry consultant Tony O'Reilly says merger mania is prompting the best workers to vote with their feet.
Gun verdict ricochet to hit insurers.
Insurers are bracing themselves for a volley of claims after some American handgun manufacturers wer...
Welfare reform: the state we're in.
The constant barrage of plans for reforming the welfare state and, in particular, pensions provision...
Belief in Beliefs.
IT solutions provider Trisystems has appointed marketing consultancy Brand Beliefs to advise on futu...
In deep trouble?
Radical change is sweeping through the UK insurance market. Cost saving is the merger mantra, and reinsurers are feeling the effect. Adrian Leonard asks if there is any light at the end of the tunnel.
Grade A for Hiscox.
Hiscox Insurance has been awarded an 'excellent' A-rating by AM Best. The rating agency said: "Th...
Aon enters the Amazon.
Aon has selected Internet-based solution provider Intelligent Environment's Amazon Integrator as the...
Woodgate & Clark sifts through debris.
Loss adjuster Woodgate & Clark is sifting through the debris of a fire which ripped through three bu...
Big cheese from the Big Apple.
Brokers can get expert advice and tuition from political risk expert James Cunningham when he flies ...
Europ promote skills.
Europ Assistance has launched a new long-term apprenticeship to teach young adults about insurance. ...
Exclusive - Advantage to Preferential.
Dorking based intermediary Preferential Insurance has been appointed as sole travel insurance provid...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Since the management buy-out at Essex-based broker FMW at the end of last year - by directors Ortho ...
Final whistle for cup contenders.
This week is the final deadline for budding footballers and fund-raisers to enter the Post Magazine ...
Good faith is damaged by hidden earnings.
I refer to the article 'Broker Network urges more self-regulation' (PM, 4 Feb p8) in which Grant Ell...
Exclusive - Law firm axes staff to refocus on insurance.
A leading law firm is shedding 80 jobs and switching resources into its insurance departments. Da...
Good news & bad.
Standard Life attracted more favourable publicity than any other financial services company in the n...
Government is 'failing public'.
The government has been slammed for failing to deal with the problem of falling annuity rates which ...
Tobacco giant Philip Morris pays compensation.
A 52-year-old ex-smoker who has inoperable cancer has been paid £32m compensation by tobacco giant P...