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24-hour claimsline.
Berkshire broker Norman Insurance aims to improve its customer service with the launch of a new Prop...
Tobacco victory.
Brown & Williamson Tobacco is celebrating the result of three court trials. The cases all heard by a...
Hope and glory.
On Wednesday 7 July the insurance industry will experience an event the like of which it has never s...
Appointment at Alexander Hughes.
Robin McWilliams has been appointed to lead Alexander Hughes' insurance and risk management practice...
Axa reviews.
Axa is still reviewing GRE's Irish operation which has brought with it the number one position in th...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny Black is appalled to hear how poor Clare Parkes, development director with the Society of Fina...
Mark of security.
Cornhill Insurance has teamed up with the security service provider Retainagroup to offer its Home B...
Realistic Lloyd's is driving its own destiny.
Lloyd's of London has taken some of the perennial doom-mongers by surprise with its latest predictio...
Axa branding.
The elimination of the Guardian brand will be completed within 90 days, said Andy Homer, chief execu...
BIIBA think-tank is on target.
The turmoil on the regulatory front has helped the British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Associa...
Axa closures hit staff hard.
A major rationalisation of the branch structure and central function locations will see Axa close th...
Super Terra Nova.
Terra Nova (Bermuda) Holdings has reported operating earnings of $17.6m (£11m) for the first quarter...
Appointment at Entegria.
Entegria, the benefits consulting arm of Hogg Robinson, has appointed Pat Wynne to the Entegria Exec...
Scores on style, fails on content.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Misplaced credit.
Black marks for Post magazine I'm afraid. You attributed the new Continuing Professional Developme...
Sedgwick Financial Services for sale.
Global consulting firm William M Mercer has put Sedgwick Financial Services up for sale. The cons...
All in bad faith.
The American insurance industry has been dominated by bad faith litigation for over a decade. Martin Bruffell believes the Woolf Reforms may prove to be the catalyst for bad faith to cross the Atlantic.
Taking off & taking over.
The bus and coach industry has changed radically in the past 25 years, providing challenges for those insurers long-involved in its insurance as well as new players who have jumped on board. David Fanning goes on the buses.
Davis for chairman.
Prudential group chief executive Sir Peter Davis will take over from retiring chairman Sir Martin Ja...
Who knows best: insurer or insured?
Have modern risk analysis techniques moved the goal posts so far that it is now the insurer who know...
A voyage of discovery.
In the sixth of Post Magazine's series of back-to-basics legal articles, we look at discovery, the means by which insurers can weed out an inflated claim from one which is genuine.
MOT deal hits the skids.
S leased an MOT testing machine to C, who was a tenant of D. Later, C repudiated the lease but the e...
Appointment at Vizards Staples & Bannisters.
David Rogers has joined newly-launched law firm Vizards Staples & Bannisters as one of its founding ...
Axa falls on GRE.
Guardian Life could be the first corporate casualty following confirmation that Axa-owned Sun Life a...