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Knowing where the heart is.
Underwriting is the premier concern in any successful insurance organisation, which highlights the importance of training and education in this area. Diane Bromley explains.
Seminar at CGU headquarters.
Over 100 insurers, charities, local authorities and academics attended a seminar at CGU headquarters...
Launch of Home Repairs Log Book.
Anna Ryder-Richardson, presenter of the BBC's Changing Rooms, knows a good idea when she sees one, w...
Avon Insurance develops guide.
Avon Insurance has developed a bluffers' guide to marketing to help brokers generate extra income. M...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny Black wonders if the deputy director general of the Association of British Insurers, Tony Bake...
Avon Combination competition winner.
Leicester City fan Steve Roche has scored with the last kick of this season's Post Magazine /Avon In...
Appointment at Tyser & Co.
John Ramsey, former head of strategic consulting at Ernst & Young, has joined Tyser & Co as deputy c...
Appointment at Cartwrights.
Cartwrights solicitors have made five appointments to its defendant claims litigation team. Peter Bu...
Don't let the golden egg turn rotten.
Two major private medical insurance providers have been referred to the Office of Fair Trading for refusing customers access to particular hospitals. Sharon Lyons outlines the arguments against allowing insurers the right to make that choice.
Air rescue for a Brit too far.
Insurers could have their repatriation costs slashed if a new medical airline service takes off. ...
Hewitt tries to calm FSA fears.
Economic Secretary Patricia Hewitt has moved to allay fears surrounding the accountability of the Fi...
Reasons to be cheerful ...
The annual Post Magazine conference saw industry experts outline the huge opportunities, rather than problems, facing insurers as they enter the millennium. David Worsfold, Anthony Gould and Francis Higney report.
Claws sunk into CAT scheme.
Fears were raised about how the industry would cope during the volatile transition period before sta...
Insurers urged to help poor save.
The insurance industry has been called upon to help society's underclass to take the first step onto...
Providers stare into the abyss.
Concern is mounting over the looming void in pensions provision while we wait for the present regime...
Sunny side up.
Broker transparency - 'operating in the sunshine' - has been top of the agenda for risk managers for the last year. Anthony Gould reports on the latest advances.
Lost male costs £385 a week.
Having a man about the house can save a family a staggering £385 a week according to telephone based...
Long live adjusters.
The Guest Comment by Andrew Westgate ('Survival Instinct', PM 4 March, p19) made interesting reading...
£606m profit for Lloyd's.
Lloyd's has announced a preliminary profit of £606m for the 1996 underwriting year. The figure co...
Waiting for the gun.
Brokers are on their blocks and insurers in training for the start of the 1999 Insurance Athletic As...
Euro review of employment laws.
The European Court of Justice has preliminary ruled on questions relating to an application for a ju...
Democrat turns toxic avenger.
California's toxic waste Superfund laws, which expired on 1 January, are being revived in a new bill...
Charcol deal set to fire up letting market.
Aon subsidiary London General Holdings has teamed up with independent mortgage advisers John Charcol...
Commentary - Bill is not a help but a burden.
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, which is likely to come into effect on 5 April, appears to be y...