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Business crime up 11% says Axa
The latest Axa Business Crime Index found that the number of business crime claims settled between April and June 2007 is 11% higher than the same period in 2006.
Report reveals plight of the insurance underclass
A new report by the Association of British Insurers has revealed that 35% of households earning less than £10,000 a year have no insurance at all.
Are you brave enough?
The Prince's Trust's Insurance Leadership Group has launched its overseas challenge for 2008 and is inviting entries from insurance industry teams to go head to head with their peers and rivals. The challenge is to travel across the Namibian desert for…
Bodily injury claims report reveals 9.5% inflation
The total cost of bodily injury claims paid by UK motor insurers has significantly outstripped inflation over the past decade rising at 9.5% a year between 1996 and 2006 – more than double the growth in average earnings. Results from the Fourth UK Bodily…
BLG partner: multi million pound cases are on the rise
Multi-million pound personal injury claims are on the increase, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert partner Danielle Singer claimed today.
Groupama rolls out fleet management initiative
Groupama Insurances has launched a new fleet risk management programme to conduct risk assessment and driver training.
Rivlin kicks off summing up
The scope for finding the three defendants guilty in the Independent trial has been laid out to the jury by the judge, Mr Justice Rivlin. Ed Vinales reports .
DAS creates motor team
Legal expenses insurer DAS has created a new team focussing on motor business from major corporate clients.
Success for M&S home insurance agent in Direct Excellence contact centre award
Stacey Tyrie of the Marks and Spencer home insurance call centre in Perth has won the Direct Excelle...
Unum backs RNID for tinnitus awareness
Disability insurer Unum has teamed up with the Royal National Institute for Deaf people to raise awa...
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Appointment at Silverbeck Rymer
Law firm Silverbeck Rymer has added Mark Evans as an associate partner. Mr Evans joins after 11 year...
QBE Ireland launched
QBE has launched QBE Ireland, the result of the integration and rebranding of its three Irish primar...
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny was delighted to be invited to an annual broker networking dinner last week in Oxfordshire wit...
AI appoints vehicle head
AI Claims Solutions has appointed Andy Crinson as head of vehicle supply. Mr Crinson has worked in v...
New Aon regional heads
Aon in Birmingham has appointed Simon Baker as branch director and former Footman James commercial d...
RK Harrison division director defects to rival
Holman's has taken the schemes director from rival RK Harrison to head up its newly-formed binding a...
Appointment at Blyth Valley
Blyth Valley has made four new additions to its Ipswich-based team. Stephan Pieri joins the company ...
BGL appoints associate director
Gary Elliott has been appointed as the new associate director for account development in ACM ULR, the claims management arm of the BGL Group
Rock Insurance enters the business travel arena
Rock Insurance has launched its new business travel insurance policy.
QBE integrates Irish operations
QBE today announces the launch of QBE Ireland following the integration and rebranding of its three Irish primary insurance businesses, D A Constable Syndicate (Ireland), Ensign and QBE Insurance.
Flooding effect is negligible on motor premiums
The June floods had little effect on motor insurance premiums in the direct market during quarter three, according Experian, the global information solutions company.
AI Claims hires vehicle supply manager
Ai Claims Solutions has appointed Andy Crinson to the position of head of vehicle supply reporting to Jim Monteith, technical services director.
IP launch planned from after Somerville appoints McCooey
Somerville Holdings has appointed Sarah McCooey, ex-managing director of Lloyd’s underwriting agency Special Risk Services, for a push into the intellectual property market.