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Yuppie flu not to be sneezed at.
The controversial so-called 'yuppie flu' virus has become a very real ailment to Canadian insurers f...
No substitute for experience.
I have read Derek Armstrong's reply (Let adjusters repair damage of assessors, PM, 9 April, p18) to ...
Weather rains on insurers' parade.
Freak weather worldwide resulted in heavy losses for General Accident and Commercial Union prior to ...
Boost from acquisition.
New York firm Towers Perrin has seen the size of its current risk management capacity rocket by 70% ...
Decision to give Taylor the boot was a sure thing.
It hardly made the news, so inevitable was the Association of British Insurers' decision to replace ...
Club gives brokers a boost.
The future of high street brokers looks rosier following the launch of an exclusive club designed to...
Qualified staff bound to be best.
I believe I am uniquely qualified to comment of the current assessor and adjuster debate, as for the...
Appointment at Maritime Insurance.
Vincent Emms, ACII, has joined Maritime Insurance as a hull underwriter. He has considerable experie...
Is this the countdown to the end of the IBRC?
It is just a week to go before the submissions on the future regulation of general insurance selling...
Bosses get year 2000 warning.
Company directors' personal liability and exposure to litigation due to year 2000 failures could run...
Workers flee mob-rule Jakarta.
British firms Crawford-THG and Commercial Union have pulled out their staff from strife-torn Indones...
Norwich Union joins in the 'why are we waiting?' chorus.
Norwich Union has joined the growing chorus of disapproval over the government's failure to produce ...
Appointment at Weightmans.
Tony Summers has stepped down as senior partner with Weightmans, and is being replaced by his deputy...
LPC ready for the euro.
The London Processing Centre (LPC) will have its systems in place by October to cope with the implem...
We need IBRC and more.
On the subject of the government's consultation document on the regulation of insurance brokers, I a...
You can look but you can't touch.
Lawyers are unique from other professionals because they are protected from being sued for negligence. Ken Cannar traces the history of this immunity.
Cheshire UK-wide deal.
Cheshire Datasystems has acquired the rights to sell, support and develop the Praemium range of prod...
Calling time out on time off.
A typical employee calls in sick and is absent from work for eight days a year, costing their compan...
Appointment at Active Solutions.
Active Solutions has appointed Microsoft-certified product specialist James Hughes as network develo...
Bosses risk losing staff.
Employers are in grave danger of losing key staff as 74% of respondents in the insurance industry, w...
Brand new brandings.
Supermarkets battling for a larger slice of the motor, travel and property insurance markets can tak...
Year could have been the death of life firms.
The 13th annual general meeting of the Metropolitan Life Assurance Society, which took place on 10 M...
Appointment at Policy Master.
Policy Master has appointed Vanessa Moore as its new marketing communications manager. A graduate wi...
Treasury's intervention in welfare state most welcome.
Reforming the welfare state suddenly looks a lot more difficult in government than it ever did in op...