News
Crooked IFA gets three years.
An independent financial adviser was jailed for three years last week for stealing £367,000 which he...
Novel way of avoiding the Millennium Bug.
I thought you might find of interest the following extract of an e-mail I have sent to CGU on a comm...
Give error the SLIP.
Information systems architects Michaelhouse has launched its application SLIP, developed for the act...
Sponsor may quit Olympics.
The bribery scandal that has engulfed the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City has caused an ...
Regulator chief's warning over broker funds.
The head of the Personal Investment Authority has warned that the broker fund market may disappear i...
Dismay at 'dumbing down'.
I must express my dismay at the headline regarding Willis Corroon's 1999 market forecast - 'Bust bre...
Bias at awards.
For the second time in three years, David Simpson, head of Leicester-based Bias, has won the Bland B...
Firms fined by PIA.
The Personal Investment Authority has fined Essex-based Burke Ford Financial Services £35,000 and or...
The name of the game.
Financial services companies are the new stars of track and field sponsorship. Jonathan Guy explains why the sporting life suits them down to the ground.
Commentary - Time to tackle football claims.
In recent years, actions by one footballer against another over an alleged career-ending tackle have...
China in its hand.
McLarens Toplis has opened an office in Guangzhou, China. This consolidates the loss adjuster's posi...
N&G agreed claim within a month.
A Hampshire boat builder, facing financial disaster following a fire at his yard, was on hand to acc...
EDI debut policy.
Cornhill is celebrating after it received the first commercial policy transmitted through its Gilt E...
Independent tweaks cover.
Independent Insurance has adapted its property owner portfolio in a bid to give its brokers the edge...
Ski deaths prompt 'no cover' warning.
Winter sports insurers have warned British skiers that they could invalidate their cover if they are...
Debit credits.
Insurer CGU has claimed one and a half million of its general insurance policyholders paid by direct...
Sting in the bug's tail.
Surely all those compliance forms will protect insurers? Not so says Richard Radevsky, who explains that long after the last bug confuses a computer, insurers will remain exposed to millennium losses.
Insurers' double-act snares £6m conmen.
CGU and Cunningham Ellis & Buckle joined forces to bust a pair of thieves responsible for stealing o...
Law speeds up union recognition.
Gordon Noble gives a trade union perspective on how the relationship between the insurance industry and unions will pan out following the publication of the Employment Relations Bill.
Share Watch.
Now that the dust has settled and Axa has emerged the victor in the auction for Guardian Royal Excha...
Arson cases fell in 1997.
The number of arson cases fell in 1997 for the first time in a decade. But the bad news for insurers...
Why we are letting down the customer.
I was interested to read 'A thorough cheque-up' (PM 21 Jan pp24/25). The question of replacement ...
Club Direct to cash in on weekend breaks.
Club Direct is looking to cash in on Valentine's Day trippers with its full insurance cover for week...
Audatex launches 'AudaWorkstation'.
Computer estimating systems provider Audatex has launched its 'one box' estimating system 'AudaWorks...