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Essex Cricket Club are the winners.
Essex man had plenty to cheer about at the County Ground in Chelmsford. Essex Cricket Club, the w...
Negotiation: key to IIB solution.
Wither the future regulation of insurance brokers? Into chaos as many suggest? The answer to thes...
Looking for Mr and Mrs Right.
The worrying trends in the industry's personnel policies over the last 10 years can be reversed through careful recruitment of staff. Paul Cotter reports.
Pension reform promised.
Alistair Darling, who took over from Harriet Harman as social security minister in Tony Blair's rece...
Widows perform well.
Total new premium income at Scottish Widows rose 34% in the first half of the year to £677m. Total l...
Churchill set for UK domination.
Churchill has fired a warning shot across the bows of the telebroker by acquiring the general insura...
Trinity sorts IT out.
Following extensive international industry consultation and analysis, Lloyd's Syndicate 1236, Trinit...
Sales go Platinum.
Platinum technology has announced its revenues for the second quarter have increased 32% to £133.4m ...
PERMIT is passed.
The International Computer Security Association (ICSA) has certified as IPSec-compliant two key prod...
Scottish Life issues writ.
Scottish Life has issued a High Court writ against the Welsh Rugby Union after the life office's spo...
Nurses help in private and public.
PMI players are experiencing good sales from new products amid the fend-for-yourself policy instigated by the Labour Government Alex Broad discovered.
Crucial ruling for insurance industry.
On a point of great importance for the insurance industry, the House of Lords held that a lump sum a...
UK consumer survey shows rift with insurers.
British consumers have more confidence in insurance providers CGU, Virgin, Marks & Spencer (M&S) and...
Europe dominance.
PeopleSoft (Europe) has reported that 25 of the 50 most profitable European companies, including Wil...
Scottish Widows gets radical over LCTI.
Radical proposals for the reform of long-term care insurance (LTCI) have been voiced by leading life...
You need Friends.
The Friendly Society Commission has published its annual report for 1997-8. Up to the 31 December 19...
Prudential's results show 12% growth.
The UK and US markets enabled Prudential to drive on its results which showed a 12% growth in operat...
Third party data.
In a bid to contain credit hire costs following accidents involving non-fault third parties, NIG Ska...
Holy Cowes: gales cause havoc.
The highlight of the yachting calendar set sail again this week with further backing from insurer Sk...
TIC non-UK cover.
The Travel Insurance Club has broadened its Backpackers travel insurance policy to include non-UK ci...
FUIT merger: shares up.
Finsbury Underwriting Investment Trust (FUIT) has released its figures for the nine-month period to ...
B&CE sparks annuity row.
A benefits provider has stoked up a pensions row by claiming that customers have been duped into buy...
Personal injury: doing the sums.
The House of Lords handed down its decision in Wells v Wells on 16 July 1998. From now on, the 3% di...
Industry loses in FSA battle.
The Policyholders Protection Board is to be scrapped as part of the wide-ranging shake-up of financi...