News
Solid trading.
Iron Trades, the general insurer, revealed an increase in pre-tax profits of 38.7%, up to £32.6m fro...
Penny Black's insurance week.
He may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I think the insurance industry needs someone like the colou...
There's a time and a place for adjusters.
I note with interest the response from Chris Miller ('Long live adjusters', PM 25 March, p20) of the...
Appointment at Moore Blatch Solicitors.
Sarah Bell joins Southampton law firm Moore Blatch to head up a dedicated marine insurance departmen...
Fire at restaurant in New Forest.
PCS loss adjusters were called to a fire at a restaurant in the heart of the New Forest after an emb...
Playing your cards right.
Shane Sayers explains why alternative dispute resolution, as embodied in the Woolf reforms, is the key to saving costs on claims.
Union takes up case of excluded IFAs.
Independent Financial Advisers are being excluded from the industry because of ropey references they...
£62m for Cornhill.
Composite insurer Cornhill announced an operating profit of £62.9m for 1998, a modest reduction comp...
Hovver bovver.
One in seven gardens will be victim to a theft this summer, according to the Association of British ...
Nationwide could face ABI probe.
The Nationwide Building Society stands accused of poaching insurance business from intermediaries. ...
Four grade II listed buildings caught fire.
Four grade II listed buildings had their chips when a fire swept along an historic terrace in Headco...
Insurers act in wake of NATO blitz.
NATO air strikes in the Balkans have sent a shockwave through the London insurance markets. The L...
Euro body's all-for-one, one-for-all move.
A pan-European insurance industry trade association has moved to block individual countries negotiat...
Above average for underwriters.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Mainstay secured in Sussex.
A new brokerage hopes to make waves after the coastal consolidation of three Sussex firms. The Ma...
Y2K lives on.
Only half the brokers surveyed by the Association of British Insurers have confirmed that they are Y...
Irons Trades outsources all household claims.
Iron Trades has struck an exclusive deal with McLarens Toplis to outsource all household claims. ...
Exclusive - Motor holiday site gears up for launch.
Software support firm Data Matters is working on a specialist motoring holiday website which is due ...
A right royal excuse for not paying out.
Having been in the claims industry for over 16 years I thought that I had heard and seen everything....
Drive to stem road deaths.
A new driver safety award has been launched after a study found company car and van drivers face the...
Protection failing.
Legislation introduced last November to protect holidaymakers from insurance rip-offs by travel agen...
Appointment at Cornhill Insurance.
As part of Cornhill's corporate restructure, which sees its UK branch division renamed Allianz Cornh...
Five major mutual life insurers to go public.
At least five major Canadian mutual life insurers are poised to go public later this year. Mutual Li...
Most top firms favour ART.
The majority of FT200 companies now use alternative risk transfer products, with self-insurance by f...