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Appointment at Bristol Marine Insurance Association.
Marine insurance and shipping solicitor Barry Hayes has been re-elected as chairman of Bristol Marin...
Smart cooking now.
Yorkshire broker Smart and Cook has announced a five-fold growth in business over the last five year...
Exclusive - Dirty cash is rife in insurance.
Insurers have been urged to step up their battle to crack down on the millions of pounds which it is...
£5m travel cover.
Travel Club has announced a new worldwide multi-trip policy called Wayfarers which offers cover of u...
A Woolf at the door.
Just how much will the Woolf reforms cost the insurance industry and how many companies are ready? Neil Harris explains.
Appointment at Berrymans Lace Mawer.
Marian Trippier has joined Berrymans Lace Mawer as northern personnel manager. She will handle staff...
Unitas recruit.
The Unitas National Alliance of seven UK independent brokers has signed up its eighth and possibly f...
An EDI first?
Transamerica Insurance Finance believes it has become the first finance provider to go live with an ...
Crane crash probe.
ATA loss adjuster, on behalf of ACE Engineering, is investigating an accident in a steel yard in Rai...
New chiefs at GIO.
Australian insurer GIO Holdings has announced the appointment of two new directors. Peter Lamble, a ...
Union chases RSA for £25m compensation.
A ground-breaking industrial tribunal in which the MSF union is seeking £25m compensation for 5000 s...
You can't hide from change': Rossi.
At the London Processing Centre conference in Brighton last week, Jonathan Guy heard a repeated plea to welcome technological change.
Not bad but not that good either.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Big in Japan.
Japan is on a deregulation fast-track and this has opened the doors to foreign brokers. But how quick have insurers been to take advantage of the country's eastern promise. Jeremy Golden finds out.
Tax not taxing.
Scottish Provident has devised a new product to simplify inheritance tax planning. Commenting on Sel...
Investment bankers warn over personal pension industry.
More of the UK's mutual life insurers could be forced into flotations or mergers if the personal pen...
Hitting back at fine art thieves.
Insurers have been warned the police are losing the battle in their attempts to crack down on fine a...
Data bank is on the way.
LPC chief executive Mike Hannan promised the conference the market would have a data repository with...
You are not a name, you are a number.
Ayscough Travel launched its latest policy at the business travel conference, BT 99, held in London ...
Guardian's new ad.
Guardian Direct is to launch a new television advertising campaign on Monday. Shot at the company's ...
New pensions fuel scepticism.
Government plans for a new flexible tax free pensions investment vehicle have met with industry oppo...
Fun football to reach IBF goal.
Do you want to help raise over £10,000 for the Insurance Benevolent Fund and prove your company's pr...
Exclusive - Keep pace or go under.
A leading assistance company has warned that contractors which fail to get to grips with new technol...
Appointment at James Chapman & Co.
Specialist personal injury solicitor Stephanie Tighe has been made a partner with Manchester law fir...