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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...
Superhighway or dead end?
The government has a radical blueprint for shaking up the UK's pensions system, but Francis Higney asks if the stakeholder pensions system and revamp of the state system actually get to the heart of the problems.
Pearl extends sponsorship.
Pearl has extended its sponsorship of British-based Formula One team Jordan for another two years fo...
Appointment at Cendant Claims Plus.
Graham Harris and Jackie Young have joined Cendant Claims Plus, which was born out of the merger of ...
Sun Life's Icarus shares.
Sun Life & Provincial Holding's shares plummeted by 15% after its controlling shareholder, French in...
Don't tar all adjusters with the same brush.
As an adjuster who spent 22 years with an international firm but who is now self-employed running hi...
Forecast European insurance IT expenditure by source, 1998 & 2003.
Outsourcing of information technology is growing, according to this report, as insurers look to redu...
Brokers brought together at Close quarters.
London bank Close Brothers has developed a way of linking brokers nationwide to speed up insurance t...