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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...
A time for strategy.
The introduction of the euro has affected Europe's life insurance companies in different ways. Damien Regent outlines the way to a single market.
Sharp drop in European M&A for '98.
Total merger and acquisition volume in the European insurance sector was down considerably in 1998 c...
BA to limit cover over New Year 2000.
British Airways has announced that it will restrict the level of insurance it will offer passengers ...
Euro falters.
The sun seems to have set on the euro as Japanese insurers have quelled their initial enthusiasm for...
Work trends awareness vital.
Bacon & Woodrow has called on the financial services industry to keep abreast of emerging changes in...
Lessons in road safety.
Brokers from Norwich and Peterborough Insurance Brokers have superseded the green cross man in Cambr...
Buyers eye RAC.
The RAC is once again being wooed by several potential buyers after a £450m buyout by Cendant, the U...
Stop-go scenario.
Millennium motor mayhem has been forecast by a leading traffic light maintenance firm. Siemens Traff...
Six of the best.
Boston information and publishing company Thomson Financial Services has acquired the Sedgwick Group...
Computer advancement? We're mad for IT.
The chief executive of the London Insurance Market Network, Kevin Ashby, told the conference he was ...
Premium profits on pensions.
Together, personal and occupational pensions account for 52% of the premium income of the UK's long-...
RSA relaunch.
Royal & Sun Alliance has relaunched its Personal Accident and Business Travel insurance policy with ...
Following an antique trail.
An antiques theft-busting initiative has been launched in a bid to further clamp down on the estimat...
Appointment at Norton Rose.
Two new partners have joined the insurance group of Norton Rose solicitors. Susan Dungwall is a spec...
Europ offers Kwik fix for motorists.
Kwik-Fit Insurance Services has teamed-up with Europ Assistance to offer motorists European-wide pro...