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Michelle wins football prize.
Watford fan Michelle Dean, head of the claims section at Bristol-based Chartwell Underwriting, has w...
Senator scuppers reform bill.
Frustrated insurance industry and banking chiefs in the United States have witnessed their latest at...
Depressed but not feeling down.
The Asian economy and insurance market may be at rock bottom, but Alex Beatty found delegates at the East Asian Insurance Congress looking on the bright side.
NewRo is the only way forward for broker industry.
As a consortium of brokers in the Croydon area, we want to draw your attention to our concern that i...
GRE staff MAD for it.
A Guardian Royal Exchange initiative, Making A Difference, offered staff the opportunity to submit i...
Truth and equity - ECM watchwords.
John Noel's confusion ('Adjusters being impartial for insurers? I don't think so', PM, 8 October, ...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent has made two new key appointments. Martin Smith has joined the company from Lombard Gene...
A&L travel discount.
Alliance & Leicester is offering a holiday bonus for customers taking out a new personal loan, curre...
Halifax denies it is poised to buy Bupa for £2bn.
The Halifax bank has rubbished claims that it is lining up a £2bn bid for private healthcare group B...
System is 'go' after trial success.
A new electronic underwriting system is to be used by Lloyd's syndicates after it passed a trial wit...
BUPA locked in row with VHI over medical cover.
A row has erupted over the extent of private medical cover in Ireland. The chairman of BUPA Irela...
Annual HBC golf day.
More than 80 motor insurance professionals braved Boyce Hill's wind swept Essex course for the annua...
It was a Knockout.
It was soak-a-broker day at the Hartley Coopers & Warner's 'It's a Knockout Challenge'. Over 40 brok...
Caption Competition.
What a popular man Andy Homer is. There was a surprisingly large - and largely insulting - entry for...
Shop rage on the up.
Shop rage is soaring according to a survey carried out by Barclays Merchant Services. The survey, wh...
Investors cry freedom.
Keith Sankey explains why South Africa has become a land of opportunity for British policyholders.
Brave new world.
In the third of our Across the Millennium articles, Nick Shaw presents a futuristic look at the global insurance market in 2010, when we will be buying cover through robots.
AIRMIC award glory.
AIRMIC members were represented in six out of eight categories in the European Risk Management Award...
IBRC scheme won by IIB.
The Insurance Brokers Registration Council (IBRC) will continue to exist after 31 October with a new...
Mergers hit brokers.
Guy Bessis, managing director of Willis Corroon's global property and casualty energy practice, said...
Engaged in a phone war.
Insurers are taking-on telephone watchdog OFTEL after it announced it aimed to radically change free...
New moves to prevent IFAs suffering trial by tax.
Independent financial advisers who invest in trust funds have been warned to plan ahead or suffer tr...
Low interest rate hurts investments.
Japan's continued low interest rate policy has hurt returns in investment made by Japanese life insu...
A jobhunter's dream come true.
Jobhunters seeking work in financial services now have access to a plethora of vacancies at their fi...