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Claims are back in the house after MC Handling mix.
A private medical insurer has brought its claims handling back in-house. Dutch company Ohra origi...
One name for all.
Mega-broker Willis Corroon has confirmed all the group's core businesses will now be known and promo...
Pressure for profits.
Accepting a balance of good and poor risks could help improve profitability. Martin Cross sets out a more sophisticated risk assessment model.
Question leaves FSA director red faced.
Industry regulators attending the conference were bowled a googley when one delegate asked if they w...
Staying on track.
The drivers for risk managers are changing both in the US and the UK but still the US leads the way in innovation while some UK managers seem blinkered. David Fanning finds out why.
Engineers' training.
Royal London Insurance is equipping its systems engineers for a planned network extension by sending...
Appointment at Windsoft UK.
Andy Mills has joined software specialists Windsoft UK as sales manager. Previously he was manager o...
Gulf between rich man, poor man.
Some 150 years ago this week social exclusion - something that is once again worrying the government...
Glass Test cuts gains.
Angry Lloyd's Names are demanding money they claim is owed to them from the 1996 year of account. ...
Independent Insurance sponsorship.
Independent Insurance sponsored the three-day Royal Ocean Racing Club championships at Cowes at the ...
Leading the way.
There's a great deal more to leadership in business than merely being able to manage, argues Kevin Paterson. Consistency, vision and integrity are all absolutely crucial.
A nation of life savers.
Nicholas Holmes looks at Europe's largest life market and assesses the sector's prospects.
Hard times caused by delayed payments.
My husband has been in the business of underpinning and structural repairs for 25 years, first worki...
British insurer CGU to merge.
British insurer CGU is to finally merge Commercial Union (Malaysia) and GA Insurance, two Malaysian ...
CD-ROM from Gan.
Gan Accident and Health has joined forces with underwriter Berkeley Alexander to develop a CD-ROM wi...
Gladiator aims high.
Specialist telebroker Gladiator is moving its 200 staff across Cardiff to Wales' tallest building, C...
Appointment at Royal London Insurance.
Royal London's deputy chairman Hubert Reid has been appointed chairman of the company, to replace Mi...
Going Dutch?
CGU-owned Dutch insurer Delta Lloyd is in talks with the Dutch life, health and general insurer NUTS...
Torrential storms flood offices of McLarens Toplis.
It never rains but it pours. Following a torrential storm last week, the world caved in on chartered...
A new culture in Germany.
Software provider Rebus Insurance Systems has continued its expansion into Europe, opening a new off...
Customised data.
Royal & Sun Alliance has installed Autograph, Geneva Digital's advanced document composition solutio...
Leicester opening.
Insurer Iron Trades has opened an underwriting operation in Leicester to service the city's brokers....
Launch of Skynet 2001 Ltd.
A vehicle can be given the intelligence to self-report if attacked or seriously damaged in a crash f...
Allianz buys two ventures made in Taiwan.
The giant Zurich Financial Services has sold off two Taiwan ventures to its arch rival Allianz of Ge...