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Broker could recover cash.
The general rule that a broker could recover premiums even if he had not yet paid them to the insure...
Industry 'Oscars' hit by post strike.
With just one day left before the closing date for entries for the 1998 British Insurance Awards, co...
Bus drivers to sue local council.
Bus drivers with bad backs in the north east have finally got the hump with driving over sleeping po...
Mortgage cover offer.
Berkeley Alexander has made a bid to grab a bigger slice of the competitive mortgage protection poli...
IFAs get help to deal with new PIA rule.
Norwich Union has come to the aid of IFA's by producing a support pack to help them meet new Persona...
RJ Kiln managing director says thank you.
Managing director of RJ Kiln, Jeff Kilpatrick, made a special presentation to the Lloyd's Choir last...
Plane bursts into flames.
The multi-million pound squad of premier league team Leeds United were seconds from death this week ...
Inspections 'too long'.
More than 81,000 car repairs are stalled every year because insurers take too long to carry out insp...
A busy but boring site.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Insurers could reap rewards from attack on bonds.
The budget may have sounded the death knell for highly personalised bonds, but British insurers coul...
Slade to chair FSA Steering Group.
Former insurance ombudsman Laurie Slade has been appointed as chairman of the newly formed Financial...
No passive smoke without fire.
Do you worry about sitting in a public place inhaling somebody else's smoke? You need not says BA...
CIS to pay out £677m in bonuses.
Life assurance and pension policyholders who are members of the Co-operative Insurance Society will ...
UA hunts for chief.
United Assurance has increased its pensions mis-selling provision following an estimate showing the ...
Indiana tobacco ruling.
An Indiana jury has found several major tobacco firms were not liable in a passive smoking lawsuit b...
Admiral go on line.
A second stage of the £1m contract between Admiral Insurance and NTL Communications has been complet...
Too-low council quotes are business 'suicide'.
Insurance companies fighting over approximately £100m of business from local councils, including new...
Wife 'chutes from hip.
Parachuting from an aeroplane at 12,000 feet sounds a rather risky occupation for the wife of an ins...
L&G profits boost in shareholders funds.
London & Manchester has announced increased profits in shareholders funds held outside the long term...
Shorely not a very good idea.
The offshore life offices are playing a dangerous game as they consider a legal challenge to the Cha...
System choice launch.
Businesses will be able to road test new IT solutions and ideas before making an actual purchase tha...
Calls for ABI to 'thrash out' home protection.
Insurers called for the abolition of household insurance premium tax and for the Association of Brit...
AIG bid to bring EL explosion to a halt.
Work-related injuries are costing insurers fortunes in employers' liability payouts, with the cost o...
Long term policies: 'One day, all insurance will be made this wa
Rarely does the insurance industry witness an innovation that will have a profound and permanent eff...