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Softlab makes info read, all right and blue.
Insurers trying to keep on top of fast moving information systems are able to do so more easily foll...
Drivers need to be enlightened.
Drivers need to be enlightened in order to make the roads safer and help put a brake on the rising c...
When is a web site not a web site?
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Eagle Star's EDI first.
Eagle Star and Countrywide Insurance Marketing have written their first EDI case using Countrywide's...
Insurer still a mystery.
The identity of the insurer who is dealing with the biggest libel settlement in UK legal history rem...
Sedgwick/IBM team up.
Sedgwick and IBM have joined forces to develop a comprehensive consulting and risk transfer service ...
NU to freeze fees for pension plans.
Norwich Union is gearing itself up for a busy month with a number of updated product launches. Fr...
Merger rumours denied.
Age Korsvold, chief executive of Storebrand, Norway's biggest insurer, last week poured cold water o...
Self-employed cover.
Self-employed "one man band" traders need no longer survey the market for an insurance policy. Edgar...
Citigroup merger will result in 8000 job losses.
Some 8000 jobs are expected to go as a result of the long awaited merger between Travelers and Citig...
IRM adopts human touch for the future.
The Institute of Risk Management took up the theme of the human factor at its eighth annual conferen...
The high and highs of drug-enhancement.
Smoking and the use of drugs to enhance performance are two regular talking points nowadays. It migh...
Interest in letter from Jeffrey Salmon.
I was most interested in the letter from Jeffrey Salmon, who can be relied upon for good value, cert...
Commentary - Keep out of the VDU mousetrap.
This year the Health & Safety Executive published its revised guidance on working with VDUs, which f...
Regulator's fines not working,' blasts Boleat.
Association of British Insurers' chief Mark Boleat slammed the regulator over its use of fines as th...
A simple plan.
I cannot understand what all the fuss is about over insurance agents' control. The requirement is st...
Sumitomo Life Insurance to take 10% stake.
Sumitomo Life Insurance, the Japanese life group, is to take about 10% stake in Taiheiyo Securities,...
Long-term costs.
As long-term care insurance slowly makes its mark, Simon Threadgold looks at the providers' activities ahead of the Royal Commission in December.
Danger still ahead for NewRo on road to broker regulation.
It seems that the momentum in the broker regulation debate is now irrevocably with NewRo. It is t...
Reinsurance and ART boundaries are blurring'.
As the market thrives, Alternative Risk Transfer becomes more difficult to distinguish from conventi...
Prudential to shed 300 jobs.
Prudential is to prune 34 of its branches nationwide with the loss of 300 jobs as part of a general ...
Lloyd's directory in trio of formats.
Brokers can now get all the latest information about changes within the Lloyd's market at the touch ...
Y2K awareness database from ABI.
The Association of British Insurers has launched a new database, designed to give fund managers a fa...
King Canutes of insurance will only ever drown.
The article Risk Kept Indoors, PM, 17 Sept, Supplement, p11) while giving a good overview of current...