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Tackling stress is a great relief.
As stress claims rise with the cultural move towards litigiousness, insurers are being forced to look to their own workforces as they tackle the problem head on. Richard Adams reports.
Anti-bike theft scheme steered by Carole Nash.
Broker Carole Nash has launched a scheme to sell security products at discounted rates in a bid to h...
QGP: five adjusters.
Liability and loss adjuster The Quest Gates Partnership has appointed five adjusters to its nationwi...
Eagle Star defends website.
Eagle Star Insurance has attacked claims that its web-based insurance site is one of the worst perfo...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Unlike Michael Portillo, Penny was keeping a low profile this week after having been put straight by...
Cybercrime cover.
According to a survey carried out on behalf of information security company Integralis, financial se...
Stirling Cooke focuses on special risks
The London-based reinsurance intermediary of Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings of Bermuda has set up a sp...
Direct Line buys US giant's European book
Direct Line, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland, is to acquire the European motor insurance b...
Modest profits for DAS
Legal expenses insurer DAS Group has posted a modest increase in profits for 2000, with worse expecte...
Zurich Financial Services premiers first TV ad.
Zurich Financial Services has premiered its first television advertisement in the UK starring Peter ...
Paper-based solutions no answer to uninsured.
Where has Mr Nelson been for the last three years? (see below: 'Jersey initiative kept direct writers...
Coversure helps out.
Coversure Insurance Services is providing all 60 brokers in its franchise network with the facilitie...
Appointment at Chubb.
Chubb Europe has made Jalil Rehman claims manager for Europe and has promoted Jonathan Dye to the po...
Feeley at the wheel.
Kevin Feeley has been appointed active underwriter of Lloyd's motor syndicate 963, part of the strug...
Kwik-fit recruits 100 following panel additions.
Telephone-intermediary Kwik-Fit Insurance Services, which delivers car, household and travel insuran...
Public should reflect on motor rates hike responsibility.
When an insurance item makes it onto BBC Radio 5 Live's Breakfast Show, you know it will not be doin...
Appointment at The Bollington Group.
Macclesfield-based the Bollington Group has appointed Simon Richards to its motor trade division. He...
Funds for testing.
Thatcham, the Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, has been given £1m of extra funding by UK moto...
Gerling looks forward with impending acquisition.
Lloyd's managing agency Gerling, which runs troubled personal accident and health syndicate 1206, is...
Hiscox to host photography exhibition.
Lloyd's insurer Hiscox is to host an exhibition of abstract photography that will give the audience ...
Whiter shade of ...
I really must protest. Why is it that Penny sees things in such black and white terms (Penny Black, 3...
CGNU expands general insurance business
CGNU is to acquire the Australian general insurance business of insurer Fortis for £111m in cash, in ...
Eureko takes Friends role.
European insurance group Eureko and some of its partners have confirmed they are to take a 10% stake...
Norwich Union recovers clock.
A very early complete British clock with a pendulum, made in 1658 and worth a six-figure sum, has be...