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Know Your Rights: A new monthly column addressing key employment issues. This month: Stress
A certain amount of stress is a necessary part of most people's working lives, but when the pressure gets too much, action should be taken. Linda Sohawon clarifies your legal rights
Motor insurer Highway reports pre-tax profit
Motor insurer Highway last week reported pre-tax profits of £4.7m for the six months ended 30 June 2...
Primary Direct to rebrand itself as Primary1
Primary Direct, the provider of travel, home, pet and motor insurance, is to rebrand itself as Prima...
Liberty opens Paris office with ex-Axa staff
Lloyd's managing agency Liberty Syndicates has opened a new office in Paris staffed by several senio...
7 years ago
Looking back
Ship-shape cover
Pleasure Craft
RSA needs no more shocks
Now Royal & Sun Alliance has asked investors to cough up almost a £1bn, can it start to move forward...
RSA confident shake-up will change its fortunes
Royal & Sun Alliance UK chief executive Duncan Boyle has told Post Magazine he is confident that the...
Ready for take-off?
Aviation
Retail exclusion "not sweeping"
The exclusion of retailers of goods other than motor - such as mobile phone and electrical goods ret...
Proportional business no longer as attractive for European reinsurers
Continental reinsurers are moving away from relationship based underwriting towards more opportunisti...
A question of balance.
Dr Robert Davies assesses the case for and against outsourcing. Is it all about cost-cutting or are the attractions enough to support this type of initiative?
Leading insurers avoid legal action.
Four of Ireland's largest motor insurers have avoided legal action from the country's competition au...
US insurance figures indicate recovery is slow.
US general insurers have still not recovered from the poor premium growth of the late 1990s and 11 S...
Motor retailer Reg Vardy signs marketing deal with Direct Choice.
Motor retailer Reg Vardy has signed a marketing deal with broker Direct Choice, to offer cover to cu...
Domestic & General Group announces fall in profits.
Domestic & General Group has announced a fall in profits before tax of 14.3%, down to £12.6m for the...
Fortis bucks trend with rate increases.
Fortis UK is planning sharper rate increases as part of moves to grow its core motor business, despi...
Promina shows first-half profit.
AUSTRALIA'S third largest general insurer Promina, part of Royal & Sun Alliance prior to an initial ...
insurE-com joins up with Insurance Training Consortium.
Broker software supplier insurE-com has joined up with the Insurance Training Consortium to provide ...
Insurers take action as school arson increases.
Following reports of a suspected increase in arson attacks on schools over the summer, various initi...
Cox reassures brokers as platform is wound up.
Cox Insurance has insisted it will not be placing the policies of 60 brokers using its Brokersoft IT...
Medico-Legal Reporting launches new service.
A new service to provide photographic evidence of the extent of claimants' personal injuries has bee...
Driver fines take into account a lot more than "no insurance".
As a magistrate, who has pressed for "no insurance" to be treated more seriously, I read your articl...
What the papers said this week.
The Daily Telegraph Restaurants, fast-food chains, bars and pubs are facing further insurance p...