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Italian players make capital move.
It's interesting to see two Italian giants - Generali and Assitalia - announce in the same week they...
Insurer faces £60m fine for race discrimination.
A Virginia state insurer has been successfully sued for £60m by an equal opportunities group for dis...
Election defeat puts legislation on the line.
The defeat of New York senator Alfonse D'Amato in the United States mid-term elections is the one re...
Spoilt for info choice.
ARCS Systems can now give insurers repair information on 371 different vehicles with its new crash r...
Face to face with python
A broker which insures people tying the knot - rather than those being tied in a knot - had a slippery surprise last week
Memorial service.
A memorial service will be held on November 26 for George Felton, formerly of The Chiyoda Fire and M...
Greedy idiots deserve to be put out of business by Phase 2.
I do not understand why you feel it necessary to rush to support independent financial advisers thre...
Mortgage plan boost.
Legal & General has improved its flexible mortgage plan endowment by offering customers lower premiu...
Jail looms for bogus insurers.
Bogus insurers operating in the United States have been prosecuted and are now facing stiff prison s...
Cover for expatriates.
Goodhealth International Healthcare has announced plans to launch an international plan for expatria...
Fitzgerald says no to job.
Former Cunningham operations director Bev Fitzgerald has turned down the opportunity to join Cunning...
Document SOS Ltd is nominated.
Document SOS Ltd, which specialises in the rescue and restoration of documents and books that are da...
Names not forgotten yet.
The tenacity of Lloyd's individual Names is something to be wondered at. There is a widespread belie...
A clean sweep on pollution.
Michael Gaughan asks who will have to wake up to new liabilities as the Environment Act begins to bite.
On a road to nowhere?
New research into the UK motor market doesn't bode well for insurers, says Francis Higney.
Cheaper cover for advanced drivers.
Diligent drivers are to get cheaper cover following a partnership between Aon Risk Services and the ...
Healthy move for Fogg.
Fogg Medical Administration opened its first office in Dubai earlier this week. The new office will ...
Coface tempts exporters to the US.
The world's biggest export credit insurer, Coface, has joined forces with CNA, one of the top 10 ins...
Nobody's fool Huppi dismisses mergers.
Zurich chief executive Rolf Huppi has stressed that despite increased participation between insurers...
The end of courtroom drama?
There is growing dissatisfaction with the cost and time involved in settling disputes in the courts. One favoured solution is that of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Stephen Tester looks at how workable ADR would be.
Opt out of all Y2K cover'.
The General Insurance Association of Malaysia has advised its members to take a firm stand against y...
IBM arms traditional insurers for cover war.
IBM has released an insurance intelligence solution designed to combat the increasing threat of non-...
Chemical release 'safe'.
Dutch government health inspectors have played down the health risks posed by a cocktail of chemical...
Coming up for air.
With marine rates still stuck falling, Eric Alexander reports that at last there are signs that the market's four-year slide may be coming to an end.