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Crawford & Company investigate loss.
Loss adjuster Crawford & Company is investigating an estimated £400,000 loss on behalf of Avebury Ta...
Forbes gives solicitors lessons in risky business.
Broker Alexander Forbes has launched a new risk management service for law firms which offers three ...
Broker appoints Chubb Europe.
High net worth specialist Chubb Europe has been appointed by broker Marsh Private Clients and the off...
Axa strikes deal with Indie staff.
Axa Insurance has struck a deal to pick up Independent Insurance's commercial risk website business-...
Affluent need more products and cheaper advice.
If insurers are going to cater for the country's affluent they must extend the number of products on...
Appointment at NTL.
NTL has appointed Ian West to be strategic adviser to the newly-created UK & Ireland advisory board....
Indie sufferers' site.
Financial services company Grant Thornton has set up an Independent Insurance online help forum to a...
Cat bonds to rise tenfold by 2010.
The annual value of new catastrophe bonds will rise from about $1bn today to $10bn by 2010, according...
Expensive earthquake in Japan.
Japan's Marine and Fire Insurance Association has released figures showing that the Richter 6.4 Geiyo...
RSA puts the squeeze on Claims Direct
According to a report in today's Daily Telegraph, insurer Royal and Sun Alliance aims to squeeze afte...
PPB: levy increase?
The Policyholder's Protection Board would not be drawn on the possibility of a levy increase on insu...
Kwik-Fit in training.
Kwik-Fit Insurance Services is to put 600 of its existing staff through the Chartered Insurance Inst...
QBE puts syndicate 318 on the market.
Australian insurer QBE is set to sell its short-tail property syndicate at Lloyd's, syndicate 318, as...
Polaris gets InStep.
The Association of British Insurers has transferred the responsibility for its e-commerce department...
Insurer moves in on Elcoates.
Ipswich-based Ryan Insurance has acquired Colchester company Elcoates Insurance services for an undi...
Truck case driver cleared.
North v TNT Express UK (Court of Appeal - 25 May 2001) The defendant's articulated truck was be...
No DVT hazard.
Suggestions made at last week's Association of Lloyd's Members' annual conference that Deep Vein Thr...
Huge payout not an insurance worry.
A leading City claimant lawyer has played down fears that insurers should have anything to worry abo...
Alarm on the farm.
Motor insurance repair centre Thatcham aims to lower the incidence of agricultural machinery and pla...
Direct Line increases European reach.
Direct Line is to further broaden its European exposure, with the acquisition of US insurer Allstate...
Salvage profits up.
Universal Salvage has announced a pretax profit increase of 18% to £6.6m compared with £5.5m in 2000...
Independent: what now?
The collapse of Independent Insurance will reverberate around the market for many years, much as the...
Stowaways cover confusion.
Help, I'm confused, being only a simple provincial insurance man. In Post Magazine, 22 March (see b...
Fast-track rules for effectiveness.
David Worsfold reports from Post Magazine's legal conference.