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Most top firms favour ART.
The majority of FT200 companies now use alternative risk transfer products, with self-insurance by f...
Stakeholders slated.
A consumer watchdog has blasted the government's stakeholder pensions proposals and urged it to impl...
Liver shuts door.
Royal Liver is the latest company to walk away from door-to-door policy selling. The friendly societ...
Exclusive - Jailed for eight years.
The remaining members of a nine-man fraud gang responsible for the theft of £1.4m worth of motor veh...
Appointment at Ward Evan Group.
Several appointments have been made by Ward Evans Group to its corporate insurance broking arm. Susa...
Race against time.
Updating IT sytems is an integral part of being ready for the Woolf reforms. Alex Miller finds that some companies are keeping pace while others are lagging behind.
Fishers out to buy.
Fishers international, the insurance services company, is set to cast its net wider is search of fur...
Happy as a pig in.
Wiltshire farmer Richard Gordon emerged smelling of roses when Q Farms settled his insurance claim i...
Call for change.
The civil litigation climate is set to change radically on 26 April. Alex Broad analyses the rationale for Lord Woolf's reforms and their intended impact.
Merger results in 22 centre closures.
Twenty-two UK service centres have disappeared following the merger of Miller Adjusters and Pycraft ...
Mergers to pick up.
The pace of merger and acquisition activity in Europe's property and casualty and reinsurance market...
Appointment at Cameron McKenna.
Tony Kilbride has joined the aviation group of international law firm Cameron McKenna. Previously he...
Insurer opts for Certis solution.
Highway Motor Policies has picked Certis' Ratabase Next Generation solution as its strategic rating ...
Appointment at Cigna Healthcare & Group Life.
Philippa Dickson has joined Cigna Healthcare & Group Life as managing director. Previously she was a...
Jobs to go at Arnott.
Arnott Insurance has conceded jobs could go as it looks to secure its future with a major restructur...
The gain in Spain.
Eastgate Group subsidiary CCS Global has formed a Spanish subsidiary, Barlow CCS. The new company wi...
Managers huff and puff saying Woolf will blow their claims in.
Insurers have been warned to expect to be 'ambushed' with a deluge of claims from solicitors on 26 A...
You can shape up or ship out'.
Royal London Insurance has announced a purge of sales staff who fail compliance and customer service...
Compulsion is key to pension success.
Insurance industry pensions experts met last week at a specially convened business breakfast to voice fears over the government's plans to reform pensions provision. Francis Higney and David Worsfold report.
Field staff don't know how to properly use computers.
The mobile computing boom in the insurance world has been held back by inadequate user skills, accor...
Firemen arrested over hoax calls and arson.
Five firemen were arrested last week after an investigation into allegations involving hoax calls an...
Guardian to face Royal Sun Alliance in rugby final.
Guardian, the holder of the insurance industry's Preece rugby cup, has made it through to the final ...
Nearly a done deal.
Negotiations are nearing agreement between Japan's Asahi Mutual Life and US company MetLife to enter...
Bang on target.
A scheme aimed at the right group of people can turn into a real money-spinner if there is a good relationship between the group, the broker and the insurer, as David Fanning finds out.