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... but King acquitted.
Boxing promoter Don King has been acquitted on charges of attempting to defraud a Lloyd's syndicate ...
OPRA helps keep tenners in tune.
In its first full year of operation the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority (OPRA) helped mak...
What the papers say.
DAILY EXPRESS Hypnotist Paul McKenna will appear in court tomorrow to face claims that he turned ...
Axa hits the road to talk to brokers.
Brokers are demanding further devolution of underwriting capability and greater underwriting respons...
Winterthur acts to put pension investors in control.
To allow pension investors greater control over the timing of their investment or disinvestment, Win...
Juries find pensions over-priced.
People on low income would lose out if a compulsory private second pension scheme was launched, acco...
Appointment at GE Capital Finance Travel Insurance.
Three senior members have joined the Travel Insurance Services team of GE Capital Financial Insuranc...
Businessman takes Bank of Ireland to court for over £200,000.
A Dublin businessman has begun a High Court action for £265,000 damages over the alleged failure of ...
Liberty found guilty.
A Florida jury has returned a £13m verdict against Torchmark subsidiary Liberty Mutual Life in favou...
Poles pair with Zurich.
Solidarnosc NSZZ, the Polish workers' association with 1.6 million members, has teamed up with the Z...
Hambro backs Audatex alliance.
Hambro has put its weight behind the alliance of Audatex and Bodyshop Management Systems (BMS). I...
Scottish soaring.
Scottish Equitable has reported record levels of new business in the first six months of 1998. Total...
What's the damage of House of Lords ruling?
The House of Lords' long-awaited ruling on personal injury damages has left many insurers reeling with shock. Solicitor Paul Coppin discusses the background to the case and its implications.
A host of hospitality problems to consider.
Has the corporate hospitality bubble burst? This is a question that seems to be surfacing following ...
Guardian's own little book of calm.
Guardian Insurance has published a guide for its clients and intermediaries to help cut the financia...
Hambo Grand Prix Prize Draw winner.
John Burnham of Leicester-based brokers Bayley Bruce Burnham Hasdell finished in pole position at th...
Danger money for the day job.
Eagle Star staff have been given an insight into the working conditions of the past in a major study...
Lords strike 'wrong balance'.
Insurers and legal experts were not giving up the fight following a Lords' ruling which is set to co...
Commentary - Payment-in: a useful weapon.
The payment-into court has long been a weapon in the armoury of the defendant in civil litigation. N...
Shipshape in Bristol.
Insurance law firm Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave has moved one step closer to the completion of its ne...
Tourists uncovered.
A survey by the UK's largest travel insurer, Home & Overseas, shows that one in 10 holidaymakers go ...
Copenhagen Re opens branch in London.
Danish reinsurer Copenhagen Re last week opened a branch office in London as part of a strategy to e...
Mum-to-be unlawfully sacked.
In August 1990 a woman informed her employer that she was pregnant. She then had a succession of ...
Falling off the dock of the bay.
New Orleans dock workers are the most accident prone in the United States. That is one one of the...