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When the stars don't come out.
A star performer failing to turn up for an event is just one situation when contingency insurance can save the day. David Fanning reports on a diverse market.
Last chance for risk managers?
The UK's risk management industry has stood still for at least the last 20 years and could disappear...
Smart idea pays off.
Yorkshire broker Smart & Cook has received 10,000 Internet hits in the first month of its Internet s...
It's not his party but he'll cry if he wants to.
Why do popular journals like Post Magazine give succour to Andrew Paddick and his comments on the Ge...
The British Insurance Awards - Last chance to be a winner.
Hurry, hurry, hurry - it's just over a week away to the entry deadline for the 1999 British Insuranc...
Hill House Hammond National Salesperson of the Year Award.
Chorley broker Theresa Morley (second right) was heading "anywhere hot with a beach" after winning t...
Cut-throat rates will sink marine.
Cut-throat rates for the marine market would be its undoing, claimed the Institute of London Underwr...
FSA unveils new ad.
The Financial Services Authority's £10m campaign to alert the public to the potential of being mis-s...
Latham elected.
The International Underwriting Association of London has announced the election of a second deputy c...
Exclusive - Media blitz by Ecclesiastical.
Ecclesiastical Insurance is to take its message to the masses through a nationwide publicity campaig...
Merger plan put to a vote.
Shareholders of the Danish insurer Tryg-Baltica and banking giant Unidanmark A/S are due to vote on ...
Chase crashes pile up.
Calls for the police to polish up their driving standards have grown after four people were killed b...
£120m deal with IBM.
J&H Marsh & McLennan has teamed up with IBM, e-business experts and insurers to develop a solution t...
Insurer sues accountants over lost $12m.
Michigan-based Jackson National Life has filed a lawsuit in New York State, claiming an accounting f...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
Paul Stead has joined Ecclesiastical Insurance as business statistics manager. Previously he had wor...
Insurers track crisis in Kosovo.
The London insurance market is keeping a close eye on developments in the Balkans as NATO steps up i...
Appointment at the Society of Technicians in Insurance.
Elizabeth Adams has been elected as the representative for the East Midlands and Anglia regions for ...
Opus Holdings jumping for joy.
Financial services group, Opus Holdings was jumping for joy after sponsoring the Aldon Horse Trials....
Insurance cover for refugees.
The insurance industry was working to provide cover for the transportation of Ethnic Albanian refuge...
Taxing questions for Scotland.
Scottish companies have entered the election fray north of the border with some tough views about th...
Arnott looks to TV.
North East broker Arnott Insurance aims to bring its services to the masses through a new TV adverti...
IPT row settled.
L was a travel agent and part of the Thomson Travel Group that included a tour operator. B was a ...
Once more into the breach.
John Butler continues his analysis of the issues raised during the Svenska Kredit arbitration with a look at alleged breaches of contract.
Munich goes Japanese.
German reinsurer Munich Re has formed a Japanese subsidiary to collect and analyse market data and l...