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Road safety CD launched.
A CD-ROM aimed at promoting road safety and driving skills has been launched by the Institute of Adv...
Ford plans to drive into motor cover.
Ford is planning to launch a "revolutionary" branded product into the already overcrowded motor insu...
Roberts & Hiscox urges Names to quit Lloyd's.
Managing agents, Roberts & Hiscox, has told its 270 unlimited liability Names to cease underwriting ...
Trucking good time guarantee.
Hibernian has said it will provide a risk and rate guarantee on all quotes to major software provide...
CU points the way.
Commercial Union has produced some pointers to assist IFAs provide a better understanding of the lon...
Time to gun down cowboys.
We were all disappointed to see the recent World In Action programme which cast the insurance world ...
FSA to give members compliance lessons.
The Financial Services Authority is to offer regulated members courses and videos on how to be compl...
PYV and St Paul muscle-in on PI.
PYV brokers has teamed up with St Paul International to challenge the monopoly of Griffin Mutual and...
Appointment at Motors Insurance Company.
Simon Wright is the new finance director of Leeds-based Motors Insurance Company. Mr Moore has been ...
GP complaints double in two years.
Complaints against GPs have more than doubled in the past two years according to new research by the...
The first shoots of UK green politics.
We tend to think that environmentalism was invented in the 1980s and that it was only after much pre...
Crawford-THG investigator foils computer thieves.
A crimebusting Crawford-THG special investigator has been praised by South Wales police for his help...
Insurers ride into the birthday honours frame.
I am not sure I'll ever understand how the honours system in this country really works. The whole pr...
Appointments at Ince & Co.
Ince & Co has appointed three new partners. Louise Krenca has a wide range of shipping and litigatio...
L&G on target for 2000.
Legal & General has completed 17 out of 25 projects within its Year 2000 Programme using analysis by...
PO sign new deal with RSA.
The Post Office has agreed a new five-year deal with Royal & Sun Alliance which will see it sell fou...
Hartford teams with Italians.
Advancing its strategy to expand its European operations, the Hartford Financial Services Group has ...
Tort on the course.
From harmless schoolgirl fun in the classroom to golf and cricket balls going AWOL the law of tort has brought us several apparently conflicting cases, as Ken Cannar explains.
What's on the menu.
Sales of term assurance have boomed in recent years, with a host of different policies available to cover every worst-possible-scenario that could befall us. Keith Sankey looks at how menu-based protection has lifted the market.
Insurers counting the cost of fire.
Insurers were left to count the cost of a fire which ripped through a street which was regarded as t...
Asia Pacific is still full of eastern promise, says chief.
The chief executive of Allianz Asia Pacific reaffirmed the insurer's commitment to the region's mark...
Free cover for builders.
Cornhill has launched free cover for temporary construction workers through its Complete Contractor ...
Chubb pays Bill's bills.
The Chubb Group has agreed to resume paying US President Bill Clinton's legal bills in the Paul Jone...
Stash cash under the bed,' says La Croix.
A bleak future for the global financial marketplace was painted by globetrotting management guru Kev...