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Good but could do better.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Year 2000 support centre is launched.
A support centre has been set up to help small and medium-sized businesses beat the year 2000 proble...
Shooters come out for clashes at Scrubs.
First games get underway in Post Magazine Charity Football competition.
Are you getting enough?
Risk assessment, that is. Everything from fire regulations to contract wordings should be scutinised in today's businesses. Steve Banner canvases opinion on the biggest hazards.
What customer care?
Customer care comes low in the priorities of most life assurance companies, according to a survey co...
Hiscox sells processing facility to Eastgate for £1.5m.
Specialist insurance company Hiscox has sold its Kent-based processing facility to process services ...
Computer estimating.
Norwich Union has supplied its 84 motor engineers with Audtax-Graphics computer estimating systems, ...
FSA watch the birdie.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has launched a public information film featuring an ostrich w...
Cox snaps up AKA for £14m.
Cox Insurance Holdings last week boosted its position in the personal lines market, having acquired ...
Euro team to enter Holocaust debate.
The issue of non-payment of life policies to Holocaust victims and survivors will be brought up with...
Intermediary guide.
Cornhill Insurance has launched an Intermediary Guide for those stumped by the complexity of its Hea...
Industry's golden opportunity.
The government's announcements on the regulation of insurers, brokers and intermediaries received mixed responses, but Jonathan Guy finds many industry insiders upbeat about what could come from consultations.
BUPA deal to be reviewed.
A BUPA deal which offers hospital consultants bonuses for sending patients to specified hospitals is...
What the papers say.
DAILY EXPRESS Grip has cashed in on the latest panic sweeping Britain, after claiming to have sol...
Free mobile phone.
Commercial Union is giving away a free mobile phone to tradesmen who take out its Enterprise policy ...
A hot topic for a quarter of a century.
How long has the insurance industry been discussing European Monetary Union? Five years? Ten years? ...
Avon Insurance star prize.
Winning the Avon Insurance end of season star prize of seeing QPR v Wolves from the comfort of an ex...
Mis-selling warning.
Consultants Bacon & Woodrow has warned with-profit policyholders, independent financial advisers and...
Over half financial services firms look on the bright side.
Over half of financial service companies (53%) have reported a renewed business confidence, fuelled ...
President Clinton to sue.
President Clinton is to sue State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Chubb Group subsidiary Pacifi...
Fleet crisis forces hike in premiums.
The continuing squeeze in the fleet market is forcing insurers to increase premium prices in an atte...
Barking up the right tree.
In deciding whether the keeper of an animal is liable for any injury or damage it has caused, courts...
MShow goes distance.
Darome Teleconferencing, the UK subsidiary of the Genesys SA, has announced the launch of M.Show, a ...
Freak flooding fails to sink good name of insurers.
The insurance industry seems to have taken the flooding in the Midlands in its stride, judging by th...