News
Global warming stokes pay-outs.
Rising world temperatures and the global population boom could spell disaster for insurers, accordin...
Award for pension.
National Provident has been awarded a Micropol award for its Pension Global Care pension managed fun...
Appointment at Permanent Insurance.
Rod Macdonald is the new sales and marketing manager at Permanent Insurance. He joins from Royal ...
Demand for wedding insurance.
Californian caterers and hoteliers are increasingly demanding that couples set to marry carry weddin...
Sponsored head shave.
Three United Friendly employees at Redhill got their 'locks off' in aid of Comic Relief last Friday ...
£5bn in kitty to buy.
The chairman of Dutch finance group ING has said it is planning to buy a US life insurance company b...
Driving home crash cover for motorists.
Cigna International has a new personal accident policy for drivers and their passengers. Driver P...
Health seminar.
The Private Medical Insurance industry working party has announced it will be holding a seminar for ...
Zurich plan to end rivalry.
Zurich Financial Services has revealed a new strategy which it hopes will stop Zurich and Eagle Star...
Crime causes listed.
Poor parenting, unemployment and poverty are the most influential factors turning young people to cr...
Broker acts on transparency.
Brokers have been urged to follow Aon Risk Services' example and adopt a code of conduct over busine...
Kuwait Airways wins battle.
Kuwait Airways has won its battle to recover the value of the spares, equipment and engines seized b...
Pensions sales rise.
Sales of new life insurance, pensions and collective investments rose by 15% last year, according to...
When flower power backfires.
I'm always intrigued by the amount of effort and cash which organisations put into corporate logos (...
New Woolf unit.
Recognising that Woolf is at the door, insurance law firm Bond Pearce has introduced a dedicated pre...
Miami nice Fortis deal.
Dutch/Belgian group Fortis has announced it has agreed to pay £2.6bn cash for Miami-based credit ins...
RSA stake in Poles.
Royal & Sun Alliance is set to buy a 60% controlling stake in Polish specialist life insurer TU PBK ...
GRE streamlining.
Guardian Royal Exchange has streamlined its motor claims handling system with the aid of the latest ...
Future use of Royal Exchange building.
Confusion surrounds the future use of the Royal Exchange building - home to Guardian Royal Exchange ...
Unions engineer strikes over pay rise.
German unions representing the insurance industry have organised warning strikes in cities across th...
ABI's travel guide.
To ensure that Brits abroad have great holidays and not grating horrordays, the Association of Briti...
Testing annuities.
Equitable Life has announced that its test case governing guaranteed annuity rates will begin in the...
£100m price tag.
Hummingbird Communications has agreed to buy PC DOCS Group for an estimated £100m. The deal should b...
By mutual consent.
South African insurer Old Mutual is to ditch its mutual status by the middle of the year after almos...